[1rudeboy]

Canadian columnist in a snit because Don Cherry doesn't like non-contact sports.

[1rudeboy]

For your list.

Hitler reacts to the Canucks missing the playoffs.

[Always Right]

Hmm, I thought it had to do with global warming.

[scott says]

Pat Hickey should steer clear of a confrontation with Don Cherry. Grapes will clean his clock! LOL
Chery now on ESPN doing commentary......

[angcat]

Economy kept Wings’ seats empty..........

It’s not because they suck?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

“but I agree with his complaint that there’s too much English music being played during hockey games at the Bell Centre. If you go to most arenas across North America, you hear the same music. It’s occasionally racist, sexist or in bad taste,”

I’m sure this sensitive liberal whould love it if they played some Anne Murray and Celine Dion at the hockey games.

[PCBMan]

Absolutely. The Pistons charge far less for playoff tickets. It’s often commented upon in Michigan that for two people to go to a game, it’s at least around $200 for the tickets, and then there’s parking and food, etc.

[HamiltonJay]

Hockey Ticket prices in general are just too pricey... When your “cheap seats” are $50 and up, during the regular season you aren’t pricing yourself for the masses, pure and simple.

[J40000]

Ever since the Red Wings started winning regularly, their prices shot up and tickets became nearly impossible for an average schmuck like me to get. (you have to KNOW somebody...)

The Tigers, on the other hand, have been lousy for so long, their prices have stayed low and have even dropped some. And you don’t have to be a corporate exec. to get them. On a nice day I can take the kids down and enjoy watching somebody whoop the Tigers while we eat our hot dogs and peanuts...

[rod1]

I did not know that people go to Hockey games for the music!!!

[Para-Ord.45]

Don`t know if it`s the ticket price or not but

I do know this is the fastest team I`ve seen since

the Oilers of the 80`s with the likes of Gretzky, Kurri,

Coffey who made other teams look like they were skating

in slush.

The Red Wings are exciting and amazing to watch. The

team is playing at a whole...nutha...level.

[Supercharged Merlin]

I’ve loved hockey ever since I was a little kid. I now live within 50 miles of Detroit. But I wouldn’t ever consdier going to a Red Wings game because they play at Joe Louis Arena, and I’d never know if my car was going to be intact when I got back to it. Sorry, but THAT’s the truth.

[CSM]

Let’s export Michigan’s economy to the rest of the nation and elect a Dem President to go along with the D legislature.

[Be Free]

Let me get this right ...

The Pistons ARE selling out their arena; and the Lions, Tigers & Wings are all at 90% plus. Yet somehow the article is attempting to make the case that the economy is killing ticket sales???

How may restaurants fill 90% of their tables every night? How many grocery stores have 90% of their lines open? How many airlines fly with planes 90% full? These business can’t do it in a great economy. Imagine doing this in Detroit, Michigan, where the unions and leftist politicians have KILLED an economy.

Puh-leeze!

(oh yeah, and “Grapes” is right ... hockey fans everywhere prefer “rock-em, sock-em” to the Ice Capades ... not just in Detroit.)

[grellis]

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

JMO, but Wings tickets ahve always been too expensive. We only go if we get freebies from someone.

[VRWCmember]

Here are Stars’ attendance figures for the playoff games in Dallas:

In the series against the Ducks:
Game 3: 18,532 (100.0% full)
Game 4: 18,532 (100.0% full)
Game 6: 18,532 (100.0% full)

In the series against the Sharks:
Game 3: 18,532 (100.0% full)
Game 4: 18,584 (100.3% full)
Game 6: 18,532 (100.0% full)

In the conference finals against Red Wings:
Game 3: 18,532 (100.0% full)

Attendance is DEFINITELY not down in Dallas.

And while I didn’t check the Wings attendance figures for the first two rounds, attendance for games 1 and 2 of the conference finals: 20,066 (100.0% full)

[Darren McCarty]

1. We all like Don Cherry up here. Many of us here in Eastern Michigan get CBC out of our neighbor to the South, Windsor. (Windsor is South of Detroit). While our first choice is the local broadcasters Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond, when we have a choice between a Wings game on VS/ESPN/NBC or CBC, most of us will watch CBC. They cover the game better. The ratings for CBC when the wings play is higher than it is for the national American announcers for a good reason. VS coverage sucks.

2. The economy though is a problem. I don't have $80 extra to spend on a playoff Wings ticket in the upper bowl.

[Richard Kimball]

Many, many moons ago, I paid $25 to see the Ali-Spinks title rematch. I simply do not derive enough pleasure from a major league sporting event to spend hundreds to over a thousand dollars for it. I'll watch my Cowboys on television, and I photograph NCAA and high school events for pay. It's a lot of fun and I have the best seat in the house.

Major league sports are too expensive for me, but it's not the economy. I just feel like it's poor stewardship to spend that much money on a sporting event. A friend of mine spent $200 per seat to see last season's Cowboys-Packers game. That's his business, but I won't do it.

By the way, my Spurs won last night.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Grapes is a solid conservative who supports the military.

Besides, as a proud Minnesotan it’s great to laugh at “Hockeytown”.