Reply #99: You were not fiulling that building to those numbers

[inthebrain]

Those are tickets sold.

Those people were not showing up to the games.

Kraft tryed bilking the state for money AFTER the NFL was considering to move the Pats in 93. So nice try.

San Jose sells their tickets for about $35 a pop over the last three seasons.

San Jose $33.00 $33.00 $39.23

Compare that to the Isles over the last three seasons.

NY Islanders $44.01 $44.01 $50.43

This season that managed roughly 700 short of sellout for the SEATED capacity of about 14,000 a game. It's more expenive to go to Islanders game just with the ticket alone. The product on the ice has not been as good as San Joses. San Jose when they were this bad could not sell out an arena of 11,500 in THEIR INNAUGURAL year.

Their ticket prices are a drop in the bucket by comparison. With those prices and the teams regular season performance there is no excuse for them to fall short of 100% capacity. They don't have the crappy snowstorms that effect people driving to the games. Something that Boston with it's public transportation system can circumvent.

If San Jose was so assured of daily sell outs their ticket prices wouldn't be so low.