Your team name can be the Toronto Maple Leafs.

I dunno, the season is short enough that the Leafs might not play long enough to come to their usual point of collapse.  They do quite well through the first third of the season so they've got a better than average shot.   

That would be considered upper deck for our games, so those are pricey for the level.  Not that you can easily score seats like that here, so I'm sure it would be over $200 for a pair at that level.  I hope you'll excuse me for smiling a little that at least some markets are high priced like us. 

Our public transit sucks, period.  Absolutely love the trains/trams down in Minneapolis because we can get a relatively cheap hotel down by MOA, take the train in for a negligible fee and pound beers at the Vikings games.  I know they're working on the system for the hockey games too so that'll come in time.  Here?  Craptastic busses and not enough of them unless you're first out the door.  If not, you're waiting.  And because it's not rush hour, I need to take two buses, transferring and waiting outdoors.  Simply not going to happen because it's going to take me over an hour to get home.  Blech.

Parking at least is cheap.  If you're early enough you can luck into free street parking within a block or two.  To be right across the street from the arena in unheated parking you pay $10.  Indoor heated parking is $20 (although I can think of one that is only a block away for $10 on game nights and you can use the overpass walkways to get into the building without going outside at all.  Paid lot parking two blocks away is $5 and if you're three or more blocks away you're not paying anything.  Winnipeg is cheap and we don't like paying for parking. 

Picked up 2 tickets, Pens vs. Sabers on 4/2.  Not low seats, but still cost $200...  That's why I don't get to many Pens games.  I got mid-ice though which is nice.

Yeowch.  Mind you those sound like better seats than we might have (row 15 lower level, directly behind the net) and we're paying $95 a pop this year.  Jeff won't tell me how little he's paying for just about the same seats.   

Pissed at True North right now.  They went to swipe cards for seats instead of printed tickets.  So the OCD collector in me is miffed at losing out on a souvenir.  Whatever as I can find a program to print simulated tickets. 

But starting next year they're charging us $2.50 per seat to print tickets.  As in print tickets at home.  As we're part of a group, we need to do that because shuttling the two swipe cards between 7 guys is going to be a huge pain in the ass.  Overall pretty ******* lame to slap that fee on there.  Already rumblings that it violates the season ticket holder agreement by increasing our ticket price above the allowable amount (yes, there is an annual 3% ticket increase in there every year) because this is equivalent to another 2.5% increase in fees associated with the games.   

Announced two days after the MOU was signed.  Classy gesture.      We get less than everyone else and charged more because they can, no other reason.  Maybe the PA was right about the owners.   

 

short season
you'll be at the games anyway
teachable moment for the mini-Jeffs
doesn't matter if you weren't keeping up because of the lockout
chance to mock Canadians

I'll have to dig a bit for the exact numbers, but he was leading his team in scoring at nearly a point per game.  So some guys are calling for a renaissance year.  It would be interesting, but I don't think so. 

I've always been a huge Gonchar fan and rode his D to a number of wins but I gotta think he's over the hill too. 

And my new favorite

Good lord man, just lick the frickin' ash tray and wash it down with some sea water, it'll be less expensive.