Reply #118: Uhh, you charge 30$ for tickets you're going to get good attendance numbers

[inthebrain]

in todays sports market.

The Isles in the year they drew 9,000 was the height of their turmoil. You will never see a situation that bad probably ever again in pro sports. You had Spano go to jail and the new owners trying to move the team off Long Island at the start of the season. They claimed the scoreboard was unstable as reason to break the lease and packed up everything in the teams office.

Some of those guys are now in jail. This situation was due to Gery Bettmans mismanagement and sloppy review for buyers.

You had fans getting involved politically long before this started. There were thousands of fans camped out in front of the county supervisors office and well as the Town of Hempstead pleading with them to nullify Milstein and Glucksterns ownership. There were probably more people going to those events than going to the colliseum.

Right now the Isles fans are in the process of overthrowing town supervisor (Republican Kate Murray) for stone walling the new arena. Those events are drawing between 5,000 to 10,000 people. You're not going to see that much dedication to a hockey team in many areas to the country. Very doubtfull in San Jose.

The Isles don't get a lot of Devils fans showing up to their games. You do have tons of Isles fans going to Devils games. You also have a lot of em going to Florida and Tampa games. Mainly because these folks foolishly followed Grumman when they located some of their offices down there. Many of em are transplants.

If you though Jacobs was bad you ain't seen nothing till you've seen the pigs at the trough. After they didn't get their way (Bettman decided to mediate before the county stepped in on those crooks) the owner retalliate against the fans by trading off the whole roster. That payroll for that season was at about 10 mill.

The Rangers this season acounted for 1 sell out this season.

As far as competing with the other team. The Islanders have to compete with the Giants, Jets and Knicks. In years they make the post season also the Mets and Yankees. Using the excuse that the Boston teams have to compete with eachother is ridiculous. Those teams reschedule the start times to accomodate each other. They are not competing with eachother.

The Bruins only drawing 91% of capacity in a year they won the eastern conference is pathetic. Sorry, but that's just sad. San Jose and their 30 dollar tickets while leading the league in points is not impressive either.