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    Hockey fans make financial statement

    By Luke DeCock - staff columnist - [email protected]

    For hockey fans truly unhappy about the lockout, there’s only one real way to hit both sides where it hurts: Demand their money back.

    A few Carolina Hurricanes season-ticket holders have done just that, pulling their money from the team, including some of the oldest and most loyal.

    Leigh Leclair had sat in the same seat for a decade. She understands the logic behind the first lockout, the one that wiped out the 2004-05 season. She can’t fathom why the game is shut down again, so she decided to make herself heard.


    http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/...financial.html

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    Good for her! Hopefully there are plenty more like-minded folks out there doing the same thing.

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    lose/lose situation. stinks.

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    Going to hurt the teams in the struggling markets. Nobody in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver will be giving up their season tickets and if they do someone else will snap them up.

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    Why would you do anything else but ask for your money back? I got refunded immediately for my Wpg. Jets Season Tickets in the 1994 fiasco missing games.

    It's the same thing as when a team is close and they print playoff tickets and sell them in advance, only to find that you bought them, but the team missed out last couple of games - this happened to the Wpg. Jets about 7 straight seasons.

    The team of course is shocked when they find out you want a refund instead of applying the credit to next year's ST's. No way are you keeping $500.00 of my dollars for 5 months for free.

    These actions on behalf of fans are no surprise to me. When you were a Jets Season Ticket Holder, you spent a week of every season getting a refund because they sucked so badly.

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    Why would you do anything else but ask for your money back? I got refunded immediately for my Wpg. Jets Season Tickets in the 1994 fiasco missing games.

    It's the same thing as when a team is close and they print playoff tickets and sell them in advance, only to find that you bought them, but the team missed out last couple of games - this happened to the Wpg. Jets about 7 straight seasons.

    The team of course is shocked when they find out you want a refund instead of applying the credit to next year's ST's. No way are you keeping $500.00 of my dollars for 5 months for free.

    These actions on behalf of fans are no surprise to me. When you were a Jets Season Ticket Holder, you spent a week of every season getting a refund because they sucked so badly.


    Kind of harsh, kind of funny, totally accurate. :)

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    +1, I remember those days.

    Why would you do anything else but ask for your money back? I got refunded immediately for my Wpg. Jets Season Tickets in the 1994 fiasco missing games.

    It's the same thing as when a team is close and they print playoff tickets and sell them in advance, only to find that you bought them, but the team missed out last couple of games - this happened to the Wpg. Jets about 7 straight seasons.

    The team of course is shocked when they find out you want a refund instead of applying the credit to next year's ST's. No way are you keeping $500.00 of my dollars for 5 months for free.

    These actions on behalf of fans are no surprise to me. When you were a Jets Season Ticket Holder, you spent a week of every season getting a refund because they sucked so badly.


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    Someone on Facebook posted a fantastic quote from Ken Dryden made in 1972:

    "As soon as he starts giving up his season tickets, that's the time that the fan will be listened to." Ken Dryden - 1972

    Now, Dryden was talking about expansion and the dilution of the product due to the larger pool of players in the League, but the statement certainly has applications to the current lockout situation.
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    Dryden was the very first person to prognosticate that the NHL would have severe problems once they crossed the threshold of 16 teams.

    He said the Sport itself was ideally structured for this amount of teams, even 60-100 years in the future. He has seldom been close to wrong in his infinite Hockey wisdom.

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    Dryden was the very first person to prognosticate that the NHL would have severe problems once they crossed the threshold of 16 teams.

    Hockey was better when there was only 6 teams...now it's too hard to carry around your cards.
    -Bob McKenzie
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