October 07, 2004
And From A Reliable Source. . .
One of my regular readers had a business meeting with the Capitals marketing team downtown a few weeks back, and the mood at the local NHL franchise is reportedly pretty grim. Not a terrible surpirse, but apparently the marketing folks are worried that the fans just won't come back if the lockout lasts the remainder of the season.
And if the Redskins manage to turn things around by the end of the season, life will be all the more difficult for the folks responsible for selling tickets and the team to an often indifferent populace.
I was in Chinatown on Tuesday night for my regular weightlifting session, and as I stepped out of the gym and into the night air, I could feel ice hockey on the chill breeze only a block from the arena. Alas, it was not to be.
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I live about ten minutes from the Meadowlands, and about 20 minutes from MSG - it's strange going by those places and not seeing anything about hockey on the signage. You can definitely feel hockey, but it ain't there. I was pretty bummed out the first time around, but as a Ranger fan, I was still hyped up a lot, so that helped. I think this is really going to hurt. The problem is, I know that I'll end up watching when something NHL-like comes back - but I can't decide if I care a lot whether the rest of the casual fans do or not. Will corporate entities drop out, allowing me to actually get good tix to a game at a reasonable price? Or will the inability to sell 15k seats kill the game in some cities. As much as I'm not such a fan of expansion in the years of late, some of the teams have put together decent seasons and grown some players into stars - will they survive? So many questions....
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at October 7, 2004 08:41 PM
It has always amazed me that the Caps exist at all. I was involved in developing a youth hockey league back in the mid to late 60s in the DC area - the Capital Boys Hockey League. The success that we had was 90% due to the Canadians at the Canadian embassy and Canadian military in the North American Defense command as well as American imports from New England and the Minnesota-Wisconsin-Illinois-Michigan axis. I finally left the area in 1972 and the Caps arrived shortly afterword.
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at October 8, 2004 09:27 PM
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