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Originally Posted by wpgcityone
Taking a simplified look at it, even selling 15000 tickets over 41 regular season home games at $49 would only bring in CAD $30mil from ticket sales. For comparison, the lowest NHL payroll this year is the LA Kings at $45mil USD. With todays exchange rate you'd still have to find another CAD $24mil (corp, ads, etc) just to break even on player salaries.
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NHL tickets cost alot more than $50 ....
I went to a Flames game recently ... (Upper Red Zone).. and tickets were priced well over $100. Luckly I know people.
The 100 Level seats are ALOT more than that ... and the luxury boxes go for BIG cash.
http://flames.nhl.com/team/app/?serv...bcid=tic_seats