the seats are cheap enough, concessions are overpriced, but i mean your there for 3 hours, u dont really need to buy food, so 30-40 bucks for upper bowl, and a couple 12 dollar beers, your 50-60 bucks for a jets game, not very expensive for pro sports
TNSE definitely took the fans for granted. They relied too much on the fanbase simply being happy to have a team again, and are now realizing they actually have to work to get fans back. The mediocre seasons didn't help, but the tone deaf marketing was bad, too. They need to lower ticket prices and find better ways to relate to the market. Simply being hockey-mad Canadian market is not good enough.
It’s incredibly expensive, and being from Kenora (2 hours east) makes it really hard to even trick myself into believing that I’d use season tickets. Gonna look into a quarter season package for the weekends, but damn man. Prices are insane.
15 years only a hand full of teams would break the bank to spend 60 million plus.... Now the salary cap forces them all too. You want to keep your first round draft pick regardless of how well he did , it will cost you. Get a lower draft pick to play on your top line, Even though they don't get points , those top line minutes are gonna cost you in their contract. It's all bullshit.
Rough downtown doesn't help either. Stuffy boomers don't like people cheering too loud either. It's not the same atmosphere as it was when they first came back. That atmosphere left very quickly.
Chipman did say in the long interview that re-location is not something on the table. With what's he's done he does deserve to be trusted. The Jets are middle of the pack in avg. ticket prices around $77USD/game. Even avg'ing 13,100 fans as they are currently at $77USD = $1,008,700. Florida avg's $37usd/ticket. No wonder they fill that arena now with a winning team. But even 18,400 at $37USD = $680,800. Jets per game revenue from tickets are 48% higher than Florida. If the Jets have a problem, then lots of teams do. Lower prices, especially at the concession and acknowledge the reality of the canadian economy currently. There is a middle ground....from both parties.
That is a great idea! And drop the puck on time, not 15 minutes after. If game time is 7, do the anthems, etc before 7 so we are ready to go. The NFL and MLB do all the extra stuff before hand. Having said this, will it make me attend more games, likely not. Cost is another issue for me. If I lived in Miami I could see OV and the Caps for $16.
Anyone that lives outside of the perimeter doesn’t exist. Brandon is the second biggest city, but we are forced to buy $200 tickets. We can’t use season ticket packages. In Montreal I got free food with my cheap ticket. Winnipeg charges $12 a beer?
And the front office needs to be willing to take some swings to go all in. Stop relying on loyalty and friendship and treat this team as what it is, a business. If a change needs to be made to improve the team to put them over the top, even if it means making the difficult choice of moving on from a player, then it has to be done. They need to show the fans that they're all in on winning. The core should have been moved on from well before last off-season, but Chevy kept them together well past the expiration date simply to have good PR. And it gave fans a very mediocre team.
That "Winnipeg Forever" veiled threat, that some millenial marketing genius thought would be a good idea to tug at the boomer and senior gen-x heart strings was beyond tone deaf. Everyone saw straight through it, and it pissed off the entire fan base. Now Mark Chipman is coming straight out and saying it? Stop Marketing the team to the fanbase! We Love the team. Market butts in seats and the experience of 'going out' to the fan base! Winnipeg is NOT a city built on wealth. Lower some prices, make your money back on VOLUME sales. I saw Manitoba Moose selling Game packs with refreshments. TRY THAT! Keep your bobbleheads and towels and drop the price of a beer! FLASH BLOW OUT SALES at the Arena Jets Store between periods - Make promotions and advertise them! You don't NEED to sell 13000 season tickets if you can draw in 14,500-15000 average Manitobans for 3-5 games each! I can't afford $10,000+ a year on my team - but they are certainly worth $750 of my hard earned money.
I've actually never bought tickets...I can't justify 2 tickets a year. I have bought tickets in Minneapolis and Arizona for under $40 and $18 perspectively...
I work for an American owned company in Winnipeg, one of the largest in its field in North America. You'd think they'd pony up for one single season ticket, nope! All about making a buck and taking it back to America. Only support they give is giving it's workers a notification to wear the teams colours and cheer them on. The cost for them to do that? Nothing.
It's not about attendance, it's about corporate sponsorship. Many, many teams have poor attendance, but the NHL doesn't care if the seats are sold. It's the business community that needs to step up, not the average fan.
Was a season ticket holder for the Winnipeg Jets when they came back. Cost of my ticket during the inauguration season in the top of the 300 section was close to $2,200. Six years later that season ticket was now $2,900 and change. If the Jets make it to the playoffs then you have to pay up front for the tickets which were in the thousands of dollars. I love the Jets but there's a financial reality here. You pay for parking $10-15. A couple of beers $12 each, a pop $6, water $5. Jets hot dog $15. That's for one person! My cousin took his wife and 2 boys to a game just before Christmas. He said after it was all said and done buying the tickets, parking, getting drinks and food and drinks and souvenirs for the boys, it was just over $700! I say to the Jets management: We are entering a period of fiscal instability and recession for many. Beers don't need to be $12! Hot Dogs don't cost $15! Give the little guy a break and stop gouging people and you’ll fill that arena to capacity!
Capacity of the arena was always the biggest issues if its was 18,000 or 19,000 seats even if was not sold out it wouldn't be a big deal but 15,300 its too small
As someone from Winnipeg, the Jets need to take a page out of the Bomber playbook. Lower the god damn prices and have like a happy hour before the game or have discounted drinks in the first or second period. You go to a bomber game, and you can have a great time for relatively cheap. I went to a game last year and it was 25 bucks for 2 drinks like wtf. And the crowd is pretty flat now because it's only people that can afford to go at the games. Meaning the older generation and they aren't buying food and drinks. Make the tickets more affordable and have some discounts on beer, and I guarantee they would sell those tickets. The Jets are also heavily lacking in fan engagement. There is way more engagement at Moose and Bomber games. The Jets gotta give back to the fans a bit. Like have signing periods after the game for season ticket holders. Shoot some t shirts into the crowd like at the Moose games. Like do something to make it interesting. The Jets have just been riding on the goodwill of the fans.
I have both Bomber and Jets Seasons: jets have $8 tall boy pregame and STH get 25 percent all concessions. Bombers don’t offer that. The Jets model does mean repeatable sales in the books, hence season tix drive. Massive investment in rink and in a pretty good team, plus live NHL is the best NHL. Some fan excuses sound a little petty. TN has invested pride and massive dollars in the community. The playoff tix with STH is a great campaign!
Anyone ever think why bettman might be showing up in Winnipeg ‘worried’ about the viability of a franchise there instead of addressing a clear Mickey Mouse tire fire of a franchise in Arizona? Classic deflection!
When was the last time Arizona made the playoffs and are they spending as much as we do on players? I don't understand why you'd willingly compare yourself to Arizona and have the perception that it's somehow a good thing.
I’m so fed up of hearing this, every jets game I go to is packed, tickets will run you over $100 after taxes, beer and other refreshments are not even worth it. It’s a working class town, we love hockey, just walk down any given street and you’ll see infinite amount of jerseys. This attendance narrative is so frustrating when nothing has been done to address the core issues.
Poor ownership and management, Chipman is a co-owner with David Thomson, one of the richest persons/families in Canada, and as for management, they have one of the best teams in the NHL right now, that's not a mismanagement.
Canceled my season tickets when they banned going out for a cigarette and their political bs .. make a smoking section like the arena .. also no cash blows
immagine if they canceled booze, think people who like their drinks would still go ? ALOT of them wouldant. u may not like smoking/smokers but being dumb still isnt an excuse@@adamd8736
What needs to be solved (particularly in canada) is the cost of tickets and the fact that so many of the seats just get gobbled up by corporations. My girlfriend is a habs fan and I am a penguins fan. For us to go see a game, it's actually a lot cheaper for us to travel to see the game in Pittsburgh than it is in Montreal. Toronto fans get royally fucked as well because all the good seats are gobbled up by corporations and actual fans don't get to attend the games. Which in turn makes the games look like the fans are lethargic and uninterested. If ticket prices were more reasonable you would see people go to a game, but when its over $200 CDN a ticket to see a game in a non lower bowl seat it makes it impossible for the average person/family to be able to afford to go to a show. The NHL has taken for granted the Canadian fan base for too long because they just assume that we will pay no matter what. But now with the cost of living crisis it's impossible for people to afford a day/night out for a wildly overpriced game. I'm sure a family of five would much rather go on a nice vacation rather then shell out over $1000 for 2.5 hour hockey game.
Always having cerimonies for the indigenous and celebrating their land and heritage so where’s their support I’m sure there’s plenty of government support for them
Hopefully do have a deep playoff run. The deeper they go, the more sign ups for season tix will happen. At least Chipman owned up to the fact that they fucked up and flipped the bird to fans at the end of last year.
People need to stop crapping about the prices of everything. We've been season ticket holders since day one and have yet to buy even 1 beer. Don't need beer to have a good time at the game - and actually enjoy the game rather than rushing to be in line for the beer and the even longer line to get rid of said beer, C'mon folks, it's a hockey game and NOT a beer fest. If people stopped buying the beer at those prices, you'd be surprised at how quickly those prices would drop.....
Being an Arizona fan here is confusing. You're one of the cool fans, I hope the Jets stay in Winnipeg where they belong. Then I read people crying "what about Arizona" and I just want to bring up Salt Lake. (I think the Jets are gonna bounce back and not leave btw)
I don’t want any body to lose their team. Arizona and the jets are in two different positions. Jets need to focus on sales and treating customers better. Also get corporate back in buying season tickets.
Good post. I think part of the problem is these billionaire owners simply cannot relate to the working class population and fail to understand that recent inflation has made money tight in a lot of households. The Jets' season ticket base has declined by 27 per cent. That number sounds like the same percentage increase in interest rates, housing and food prices in the post-Covid era.
There are not many teams going deep in the playoffs, so maybe shouldnt used as a reason to cancel season tickets. But they should look at how they price their tickets, sell the most expensive tickets to corp. and maybe lower the season ticket price for the avg joe who cant afford this. I get that its emotional, but I dont like putting the blame on the players when its 99% the price and the silly threat
Lost all respect for Chipman this year , lost respect for the team last year , left all my jets facebook groups . The most i do now is watch game highlights on youtube and read articles in the paper .
1-Its expensive but we can't make it to cheap because we have the Moose also. 2-We arnt rich like other cities if with 834k people surrounding area can't work then forget about Saskatoon/Quebec. Working class city 3- Trudeau/Liberals spending/inflation,minimum wage goes up but alot of people took wage freezes during covid and now we seen strikes/barely raises with MPI,MLLC,Union jobs. Gas goes up,utilities,rent/housing,cars but not salaries enough. People unless they have money from family would rather save for DownPayment,kids,tuition. 4- sometimes I wonder with immigration/people comming and going. Has the market changed Seabears,ValourFC,Bombers even Goldeyes in summer get people. 5- the anti Canadian rhetoric is true Airizona,Florida is better now but in 2000s,Atlanta,other teams in USA get alot more chances if tickets drop more and Airizona=Utah definitely could see jets=Houston/Kansas. I don't think we would get a 3rd shot lile they talking about with Atlanta. 6- Hockey would still be here but maybe it would go back to 90s/2000s with Moose being only team and farm team Vancouver. Hopefully that doesn't happen but if it does we have own Jerseys/Players like some AHL teams do not just copy paste from NHL. Prior to that I think Moose were in IHL. 7- people who say Thompson is rich he put up money Chipman wouldn't have enough alone and no one likes losing money. With how much teams are costing now they would still make money selling it. Almost like he doesnt mind spending as long as return comes back that's why not just being small market team,but we at times like deals/internal cap/unwilling like Toronto do buyouts pay 1 way deals on Moose.
Maybe if Mark the Billionaire Chipman understood that not everyone has that kind of money and also the fact he is pushing ONLY FOR WEALTHY COMPANIES to purchase season tickets. The product is good the people pitching the sale of tickets...hmmhmmm...Mark Chipman it STINKS BADLY. It's not always about the product that is the issue here, it's the prices when everybody is struggling to feed their kids. How much are you struggling Mark Chipman? Do you understand what that means to struggle. You inherited your riches.
I wouldn’t go if I was given free tickets. It’s just a bunch of rich and spoiled boy men playing a game. I enjoy watching local community sports. So much more fun!👍
I bet Chipman could get a billion dollars from the guy in Utah tomorrow. Winnipeg better get it figured out soon or it will be over. Not only that, but this team has been pretty darn good for the last 13 years.
Lets hope they leave, nothing but a waste of time. The city needs fixing, not sports. Downtown is extemely unsafe and that is probably one reason for this.
There are a few ways to make the game time more exciting, look at the 50/50 draws, giveaway season tickets every game, and bring in another byfuglien type guy.
Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega aka The Golden Jets should buy the team from True North. 2 famous Winnipeggers/famous Jets fans with name value, influence and connections to help increase attendance. AEW and the Jacksonville Jaguars can help sponsor our team.
I'm tall and I cannot sit comfortably at a Jet game, hence I don't go to games. Why the arena was built without comfort in mind is beyond me. At Bomber games I have plenty of room for my legs. Just being real.
First of all they have to make the pre-game festivities' last more than one hour. A game that was supposed to start at seven now starts 45 minutes later, and they got rid of Shirley Natress to sing the anthem and get all kind of other $hit to sing. If I wanted to hear opera or quire singing or the pow-wow I would attend it somewhere other than the hockey game. Than what happened to draft and develop, I see that Declan Chisholm has played 6 games for the Wild and has 1 goal and 3 assists for 4 points and is a plus 2. Against Edmonton he played over 20:00 minutes and was a plus 2. But the Jets would rather keep 3 {PANSY} defensemen on the right side because they are our future. There is nothing better than having an NHL team made up of old men that belong in the beer league to lead us into the future. I quit watching the Jets on TV because you pay 40 dollars a month to TSN just for hockey and then they split it up with a bunch of other stations each asking for the same amount per month. And you are always saying they should trade all their draft picks for old useless and overpaid players just so the talented draft picks never get a chance to play. If I was drafted by the Jets I would never sine with them and go for the next draft. A much better chance to play in the NHL.
Halifax has had 40 years to get its act together to bring a CFL team to the city and still hasn't been able to. On that note, can you really expect them to be a city of interest to the NHL?
Strongly disagree, Winnipeg fans are acting like the NHL needs them but honestly they were fine without them for years. They should just reduce salary and put out a real crap product and tell fans you get what you pay for.
No, fans are acting, and rightfully so, like TNSE does need them. TNSE has taken them for granted thinking that they'll simply be happy having a team again and thought they didn't need to keep working to get their support. But then the pandemic happened, and people didn't have that money anymore, and TNSE didn't adjust, like the other Canadian teams did.
Just my point of view, what do y'all think?
Wow I had season tickets a few years, it cost me a fortune, I can't afford to support millionaires
How about make it cheaper and not being able to leave is bullshit and 24 dollar beers is ridiculous
the seats are cheap enough, concessions are overpriced, but i mean your there for 3 hours, u dont really need to buy food, so 30-40 bucks for upper bowl, and a couple 12 dollar beers, your 50-60 bucks for a jets game, not very expensive for pro sports
@@DuatinDauphin30-40 bucks for upper deck? Really? Are you sure or am I going to have to prove you wrong?
@@DuatinDauphinupper bowl tickets are typically $100 a game
i stand corrected, must have been an american video or idk where i sawa it, but i just checked and the next 3 games are $63-66 a game@@Kerrzy_15
must have been an american thing showing ticket prices so i stand corrected, i just checked the next 3 games and they are $63-66 per ticket@@Kerrzy_15
Do the tickets really need to be that expensive?
Why does Florida Arizona and Anaheim get a free pass and the League covers their cost?
Billionaires are greedy
Because they're American markets even though hardly anybody in those markets are watching those teams on television.
TNSE definitely took the fans for granted. They relied too much on the fanbase simply being happy to have a team again, and are now realizing they actually have to work to get fans back. The mediocre seasons didn't help, but the tone deaf marketing was bad, too.
They need to lower ticket prices and find better ways to relate to the market. Simply being hockey-mad Canadian market is not good enough.
It’s incredibly expensive, and being from Kenora (2 hours east) makes it really hard to even trick myself into believing that I’d use season tickets. Gonna look into a quarter season package for the weekends, but damn man. Prices are insane.
Old Gary Betman loves US Teams
Clear as day
15 years only a hand full of teams would break the bank to spend 60 million plus....
Now the salary cap forces them all too.
You want to keep your first round draft pick regardless of how well he did , it will cost you.
Get a lower draft pick to play on your top line, Even though they don't get points , those top line minutes are gonna cost you in their contract.
It's all bullshit.
I gave up my season ticket because the seats next to mine on 3rd party were cheaper. Btw beer prices aren’t great either.
Rough downtown doesn't help either.
Stuffy boomers don't like people cheering too loud either.
It's not the same atmosphere as it was when they first came back. That atmosphere left very quickly.
Chipman did say in the long interview that re-location is not something on the table. With what's he's done he does deserve to be trusted. The Jets are middle of the pack in avg. ticket prices around $77USD/game. Even avg'ing 13,100 fans as they are currently at $77USD = $1,008,700. Florida avg's $37usd/ticket. No wonder they fill that arena now with a winning team. But even 18,400 at $37USD = $680,800. Jets per game revenue from tickets are 48% higher than Florida. If the Jets have a problem, then lots of teams do. Lower prices, especially at the concession and acknowledge the reality of the canadian economy currently. There is a middle ground....from both parties.
Personally i think they should cut back on the pre game ceremonys , yeah the major ones ok, but seems like every single home game is something now.
That is a great idea! And drop the puck on time, not 15 minutes after. If game time is 7, do the anthems, etc before 7 so we are ready to go. The NFL and MLB do all the extra stuff before hand. Having said this, will it make me attend more games, likely not. Cost is another issue for me. If I lived in Miami I could see OV and the Caps for $16.
yeah im in the same boat, i cant justify traveling 3 + hours more than 1 or 2 times a year for a game,@@warrenotto27
Gay, crippled, Philippinos with autism who can’t read very good “night”
The team needs to scrap those stupid, identity politics theme nights!
ceremonies
Anyone that lives outside of the perimeter doesn’t exist. Brandon is the second biggest city, but we are forced to buy $200 tickets. We can’t use season ticket packages. In Montreal I got free food with my cheap ticket. Winnipeg charges $12 a beer?
Replace the marketing department, make concessions cheaper, and invest in hockey. If we make a deep run I guarantee season tickets will jump back up
And the front office needs to be willing to take some swings to go all in. Stop relying on loyalty and friendship and treat this team as what it is, a business. If a change needs to be made to improve the team to put them over the top, even if it means making the difficult choice of moving on from a player, then it has to be done. They need to show the fans that they're all in on winning.
The core should have been moved on from well before last off-season, but Chevy kept them together well past the expiration date simply to have good PR. And it gave fans a very mediocre team.
That "Winnipeg Forever" veiled threat, that some millenial marketing genius thought would be a good idea to tug at the boomer and senior gen-x heart strings was beyond tone deaf. Everyone saw straight through it, and it pissed off the entire fan base. Now Mark Chipman is coming straight out and saying it? Stop Marketing the team to the fanbase! We Love the team. Market butts in seats and the experience of 'going out' to the fan base! Winnipeg is NOT a city built on wealth. Lower some prices, make your money back on VOLUME sales. I saw Manitoba Moose selling Game packs with refreshments. TRY THAT! Keep your bobbleheads and towels and drop the price of a beer! FLASH BLOW OUT SALES at the Arena Jets Store between periods - Make promotions and advertise them! You don't NEED to sell 13000 season tickets if you can draw in 14,500-15000 average Manitobans for 3-5 games each! I can't afford $10,000+ a year on my team - but they are certainly worth $750 of my hard earned money.
Oh and FANTASTIC content as always @jetshub
If not for bobble head night, would likely attend zero games. I have an autistic child who lives and breathes for bobble head night.
@@warrenotto27 100% fair assessment as well... I too have a child living with autism.
Sell the expensive tickets to Corp and lower prices for the avg joe. Im sure you can find enough Corp support for this in the city
I've actually never bought tickets...I can't justify 2 tickets a year. I have bought tickets in Minneapolis and Arizona for under $40 and $18 perspectively...
$200 for nose bleeds in Edm
Why would I pay 400 dollars to wacth the jets and pay 18 dollars for a beer. And downtown wpg is not safe. When I can stay home and wacth it for free
Any time I see Bettman's face my fists clinch up
They need corporate sponsors! That's what it's all about
Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega should buy the team and AEW and the Jacksonville Jaguars can help sponsor the team.
I work for an American owned company in Winnipeg, one of the largest in its field in North America.
You'd think they'd pony up for one single season ticket, nope!
All about making a buck and taking it back to America. Only support they give is giving it's workers a notification to wear the teams colours and cheer them on. The cost for them to do that? Nothing.
@@ActionronnieBoeing? You’d think there would be a tie-in with the Jets…
It's not about attendance, it's about corporate sponsorship. Many, many teams have poor attendance, but the NHL doesn't care if the seats are sold. It's the business community that needs to step up, not the average fan.
Was a season ticket holder for the Winnipeg Jets when they came back. Cost of my ticket during the inauguration season in the top of the 300 section was close to $2,200. Six years later that season ticket was now $2,900 and change.
If the Jets make it to the playoffs then you have to pay up front for the tickets which were in the thousands of dollars.
I love the Jets but there's a financial reality here. You pay for parking $10-15. A couple of beers $12 each, a pop $6, water $5. Jets hot dog $15. That's for one person!
My cousin took his wife and 2 boys to a game just before Christmas. He said after it was all said and done buying the tickets, parking, getting drinks and food and drinks and souvenirs for the boys, it was just over $700!
I say to the Jets management:
We are entering a period of fiscal instability and recession for many. Beers don't need to be $12! Hot Dogs don't cost $15! Give the little guy a break and stop gouging people and you’ll fill that arena to capacity!
Bettman not concerned about Phoenix but attacking the jets. Of course.
Well we Canadians pound our chest about being the best hockey fans, then we're going to be held to a higher standard.
The NHL went woke.
Capacity of the arena was always the biggest issues if its was 18,000 or 19,000 seats even if was not sold out it wouldn't be a big deal but 15,300 its too small
Yep
The only thing l care about paying my mortgage, food for my family and gas for my car , if that means bye to the Jets so be it !
As someone from Winnipeg, the Jets need to take a page out of the Bomber playbook. Lower the god damn prices and have like a happy hour before the game or have discounted drinks in the first or second period. You go to a bomber game, and you can have a great time for relatively cheap.
I went to a game last year and it was 25 bucks for 2 drinks like wtf. And the crowd is pretty flat now because it's only people that can afford to go at the games. Meaning the older generation and they aren't buying food and drinks. Make the tickets more affordable and have some discounts on beer, and I guarantee they would sell those tickets.
The Jets are also heavily lacking in fan engagement. There is way more engagement at Moose and Bomber games. The Jets gotta give back to the fans a bit. Like have signing periods after the game for season ticket holders. Shoot some t shirts into the crowd like at the Moose games. Like do something to make it interesting. The Jets have just been riding on the goodwill of the fans.
I have both Bomber and Jets Seasons: jets have $8 tall boy pregame and STH get 25 percent all concessions. Bombers don’t offer that. The Jets model does mean repeatable sales in the books, hence season tix drive. Massive investment in rink and in a pretty good team, plus live NHL is the best NHL. Some fan excuses sound a little petty. TN has invested pride and massive dollars in the community. The playoff tix with STH is a great campaign!
Anyone ever think why bettman might be showing up in Winnipeg ‘worried’ about the viability of a franchise there instead of addressing a clear Mickey Mouse tire fire of a franchise in Arizona? Classic deflection!
When was the last time Arizona made the playoffs and are they spending as much as we do on players? I don't understand why you'd willingly compare yourself to Arizona and have the perception that it's somehow a good thing.
I’m so fed up of hearing this, every jets game I go to is packed, tickets will run you over $100 after taxes, beer and other refreshments are not even worth it. It’s a working class town, we love hockey, just walk down any given street and you’ll see infinite amount of jerseys. This attendance narrative is so frustrating when nothing has been done to address the core issues.
Reduce ticket sale prices.... Enough said.
Another reason for me to hate Trudeau. We are dying here in Canada.
Poor ownership and management, Chipman is a co-owner with David Thomson, one of the richest persons/families in Canada, and as for management, they have one of the best teams in the NHL right now, that's not a mismanagement.
Good job Chipman! Doing your best to fuck with the players’ heads going into our best playoff run since Buff was here.
Canceled my season tickets when they banned going out for a cigarette and their political bs .. make a smoking section like the arena .. also no cash blows
What political BS?
imagine being so strung up on smoking darts.
immagine if they canceled booze, think people who like their drinks would still go ? ALOT of them wouldant. u may not like smoking/smokers but being dumb still isnt an excuse@@adamd8736
@@meagainandagain5756 Probably celebrating any other people than white. Thats what they think is "political"
pride night, black history and others @@meagainandagain5756
What needs to be solved (particularly in canada) is the cost of tickets and the fact that so many of the seats just get gobbled up by corporations. My girlfriend is a habs fan and I am a penguins fan. For us to go see a game, it's actually a lot cheaper for us to travel to see the game in Pittsburgh than it is in Montreal. Toronto fans get royally fucked as well because all the good seats are gobbled up by corporations and actual fans don't get to attend the games. Which in turn makes the games look like the fans are lethargic and uninterested. If ticket prices were more reasonable you would see people go to a game, but when its over $200 CDN a ticket to see a game in a non lower bowl seat it makes it impossible for the average person/family to be able to afford to go to a show. The NHL has taken for granted the Canadian fan base for too long because they just assume that we will pay no matter what. But now with the cost of living crisis it's impossible for people to afford a day/night out for a wildly overpriced game. I'm sure a family of five would much rather go on a nice vacation rather then shell out over $1000 for 2.5 hour hockey game.
Iwas wondering why the rest of the province s cities are they involved in the ticket sales 😮
Always having cerimonies for the indigenous and celebrating their land and heritage so where’s their support I’m sure there’s plenty of government support for them
Yeah, more corporate sponsors! I’m looking at YOU, Kern-Hill Furniture!!! 😡
Hopefully do have a deep playoff run. The deeper they go, the more sign ups for season tix will happen. At least Chipman owned up to the fact that they fucked up and flipped the bird to fans at the end of last year.
People need to stop crapping about the prices of everything. We've been season ticket holders since day one and have yet to buy even 1 beer. Don't need beer to have a good time at the game - and actually enjoy the game rather than rushing to be in line for the beer and the even longer line to get rid of said beer, C'mon folks, it's a hockey game and NOT a beer fest. If people stopped buying the beer at those prices, you'd be surprised at how quickly those prices would drop.....
Sounds like ppl are not buying tickets, yet prices are not dropping.
$15/beer.
Overpriced food.
Too much pride garbage.
PLD trade happened too late.
Just wait until the Jets are forced to go into a rebuilding phase (which is inevitable in a salary-capped league). Things will get UGLY.
Being an Arizona fan here is confusing.
You're one of the cool fans, I hope the Jets stay in Winnipeg where they belong.
Then I read people crying "what about Arizona" and I just want to bring up Salt Lake.
(I think the Jets are gonna bounce back and not leave btw)
I don’t want any body to lose their team. Arizona and the jets are in two different positions. Jets need to focus on sales and treating customers better. Also get corporate back in buying season tickets.
Good post. I think part of the problem is these billionaire owners simply cannot relate to the working class population and fail to understand that recent inflation has made money tight in a lot of households.
The Jets' season ticket base has declined by 27 per cent. That number sounds like the same percentage increase in interest rates, housing and food prices in the post-Covid era.
Sell the tickets to all the kids
Move them to Arizona, no way a team would flop in that market…lol
I honestly hope the jets don't move and i am from California
Canada teams have zero chance of success when Florida was the only team allowed to have any fans for years.Safety my ass.
There are not many teams going deep in the playoffs, so maybe shouldnt used as a reason to cancel season tickets. But they should look at how they price their tickets, sell the most expensive tickets to corp. and maybe lower the season ticket price for the avg joe who cant afford this. I get that its emotional, but I dont like putting the blame on the players when its 99% the price and the silly threat
Hello Houston!
I hope you are right.
provide a sense of community for ticket holders?
Lost all respect for Chipman this year , lost respect for the team last year , left all my jets facebook groups . The most i do now is watch game highlights on youtube and read articles in the paper .
AZ Coyotes averaged more than 15,000 for 9 years.
Way too expensive for a family to afford.
Lol who takes an entire family to a game?
1-Its expensive but we can't make it to cheap because we have the Moose also.
2-We arnt rich like other cities if with 834k people surrounding area can't work then forget about Saskatoon/Quebec. Working class city
3- Trudeau/Liberals spending/inflation,minimum wage goes up but alot of people took wage freezes during covid and now we seen strikes/barely raises with MPI,MLLC,Union jobs. Gas goes up,utilities,rent/housing,cars but not salaries enough. People unless they have money from family would rather save for DownPayment,kids,tuition.
4- sometimes I wonder with immigration/people comming and going. Has the market changed Seabears,ValourFC,Bombers even Goldeyes in summer get people.
5- the anti Canadian rhetoric is true Airizona,Florida is better now but in 2000s,Atlanta,other teams in USA get alot more chances if tickets drop more and Airizona=Utah definitely could see jets=Houston/Kansas. I don't think we would get a 3rd shot lile they talking about with Atlanta.
6- Hockey would still be here but maybe it would go back to 90s/2000s with Moose being only team and farm team Vancouver. Hopefully that doesn't happen but if it does we have own Jerseys/Players like some AHL teams do not just copy paste from NHL. Prior to that I think Moose were in IHL.
7- people who say Thompson is rich he put up money Chipman wouldn't have enough alone and no one likes losing money. With how much teams are costing now they would still make money selling it. Almost like he doesnt mind spending as long as return comes back that's why not just being small market team,but we at times like deals/internal cap/unwilling like Toronto do buyouts pay 1 way deals on Moose.
The price of the greediness
Maybe if Mark the Billionaire Chipman understood that not everyone has that kind of money and also the fact he is pushing ONLY FOR WEALTHY COMPANIES to purchase season tickets. The product is good the people pitching the sale of tickets...hmmhmmm...Mark Chipman it STINKS BADLY. It's not always about the product that is the issue here, it's the prices when everybody is struggling to feed their kids. How much are you struggling Mark Chipman? Do you understand what that means to struggle. You inherited your riches.
Blue Bombers have no problem selling tickets....?
Sure, now that they're appearing in Grey Cup games on a regular basis.
How come he doesn't go to other cities. Will Bettman be here in 50 years?
At this point they're gonna freeze bettman and turn him into an A.I. robot so he can lead forever.
Rare jetshub swearing rants???
The Jets owners are just like the Cleveland Browns owners. Happy to make the playoffs on the cheap and soak the public for their hard earned cash.
63-66 loonies at ticket master, thats alot less then the 100 guy is saying but more then the 30-40 that i said
I wouldn’t go if I was given free tickets. It’s just a bunch of rich and spoiled boy men playing a game.
I enjoy watching local community sports. So much more fun!👍
I used to buy center ice every year for a decade. Since the league went woke I won't spend a penny on them.
Leave them in Winnipeg… fans love their team…..
I bet Chipman could get a billion dollars from the guy in Utah tomorrow. Winnipeg better get it figured out soon or it will be over. Not only that, but this team has been pretty darn good for the last 13 years.
Lets hope they leave, nothing but a waste of time. The city needs fixing, not sports. Downtown is extemely unsafe and that is probably one reason for this.
There are a few ways to make the game time more exciting, look at the 50/50 draws, giveaway season tickets every game, and bring in another byfuglien type guy.
Why haven't you mentioned the factor of general inflation? People simply don't have the disposable entertainment dollars they once did.
Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega aka The Golden Jets should buy the team from True North. 2 famous Winnipeggers/famous Jets fans with name value, influence and connections to help increase attendance. AEW and the Jacksonville Jaguars can help sponsor our team.
Bottom line it’s not the team it’s not the fans fault we simply need better government in canada
I'm tall and I cannot sit comfortably at a Jet game, hence I don't go to games. Why the arena was built without comfort in mind is beyond me. At Bomber games I have plenty of room for my legs. Just being real.
Nhl went woke.
First of all they have to make the pre-game festivities' last more than one hour. A game that was supposed to start at seven now starts 45 minutes later, and they got rid of Shirley Natress to sing the anthem and get all kind of other $hit to sing. If I wanted to hear opera or quire singing or the pow-wow I would attend it somewhere other than the hockey game. Than what happened to draft and develop, I see that Declan Chisholm has played 6 games for the Wild and has 1 goal and 3 assists for 4 points and is a plus 2. Against Edmonton he played over 20:00 minutes and was a plus 2. But the Jets would rather keep 3 {PANSY} defensemen on the right side because they are our future. There is nothing better than having an NHL team made up of old men that belong in the beer league to lead us into the future. I quit watching the Jets on TV because you pay 40 dollars a month to TSN just for hockey and then they split it up with a bunch of other stations each asking for the same amount per month. And you are always saying they should trade all their draft picks for old useless and overpaid players just so the talented draft picks never get a chance to play. If I was drafted by the Jets I would never sine with them and go for the next draft. A much better chance to play in the NHL.
Relocate the team to Halifax. Rename them, The Halifax Hellraisers
Halifax has had 40 years to get its act together to bring a CFL team to the city and still hasn't been able to. On that note, can you really expect them to be a city of interest to the NHL?
@@FischerFan I thought it sounded like a good name for nhl team
A future NHL game NY Rangers at the Halifax Whatevers?
jets need to move to a city that will support them and sell out every game...bye...
Maybe blm cancelled their subscription .
Salt Lake next year
I doubt it Arizona didn’t pay rent and had less than 5k being at their home games on average since 2017 the jets are fine.
Strongly disagree, Winnipeg fans are acting like the NHL needs them but honestly they were fine without them for years. They should just reduce salary and put out a real crap product and tell fans you get what you pay for.
No, fans are acting, and rightfully so, like TNSE does need them. TNSE has taken them for granted thinking that they'll simply be happy having a team again and thought they didn't need to keep working to get their support. But then the pandemic happened, and people didn't have that money anymore, and TNSE didn't adjust, like the other Canadian teams did.
Bullshit if they move the team considering Bettman is coddling the Coyotes for years on end.