After a year when ticket prices remained relatively stable, NHL teams have decided to return this season in "imposing" an average increase of 4.4% to hockey fans in North America. Thus, the average price of a ticket came to $ 54.25 in 2010-2011.
In this sense, the NHL following the footsteps of two other professional leagues that have used the "relative" economic recovery to increase the prices charged at the box office in 2010. For baseball, it was 1.5% on average, for the NFL, 4.5%.
As I write these lines, Statistics support the first month were not disclosed, but some markets seemed "to tear" at the turnstiles. Was this the right time to inflate the bill?
The Canadian would not have changed its pricing structure despite the beautiful place team in the playoffs, if we rely on data released by Team Marketing Report (TMR).
This firm specializes in sports marketing says it costs $ 86.44 (all amounts are in U.S. dollars) on average to attend a Canadiens game at the Bell Centre, which gives the second rank at the Montreal team behind the Maple Leafs ($ 115.96), which have been no affront to fetch more in the pockets of consumers.
Leafs and the Canadiens already require 120% and 60% higher respectively than the average of the 30 NHL formations. Enough is enough.
The six Canadian teams are found elsewhere in the first 11 places in this area.
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