Still no announcement about Winter Classic Tickets

[IUWingsFan 1]

I'm surprised that the Winter Classic is just over two months away, and there has still not been an announcement on how many tickets will be made available, how much they will be, etc. We all know it will be a very tough ticket no matter when they go on sale, but I just find it strange that nothing has really been released.

Has anybody heard anything new regarding the game, or have any more info on what to expect?

Bettman is supposed to attend the Hawks game tonight, so maybe we will hear something sooner rather than later, but still a bit strange...

Edited October 22, 2008 by IUWingsFan

[Krystal 41]

My best friend lives in Chicago and heard that nosebleeds at Wrigley were going for $250+ each. Granted, I don't know what his source was.. it could have been a local thing from the radio/news, he works for a paper, so he may have gotten an ear from someone on the "inside". I dunno what, but I know he'd never pass up the opportunity for us to go. The price was just too steep x_x

[shoe 165]

Sounds like my boss give you absolutly no time to prepare no warning nothing, the longer we wait the harder it will be to pick up a hotel room for that weekend if we are from out of town.

[CrossoverThrash 0]

i heard you get a chance to purchase them if you become a Hawks season ticket holder but thats absolutely the only mention of it.

[CenterIce 83]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=Auv4...p&type=lgns

“The game is going to be sold out,” commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday night. “Most of the tickets, not all, are going to be going to the season-ticket holders of the Blackhawks. We’re not going to have a mass public sale like we did in Buffalo last year when we were playing in a 73,000-seat facility.”

Edited October 23, 2008 by CenterIce

[Krystal 41]

Ah.. well my best friend has a season ticket holder connection. Maybe $250 was as cheap as they'd sell to us

[JayUp88 1]

At the season ticket holders party at the beginning of the year kenny said that wings season ticket holders would get a shot at the tickets...... this better not have changed.

[HadThomasVokounOnFortSt 878]

That will be stupid if only Blackhawks fans get for sure tickets to the game. I live in Minnesota and I am planning on going there.

[creedie 2]

I bought season tickets for the Blackhawks this year in order to secure tickets the Winter Classic. I Just spoke with my ticket broker and he said the NHL wants to get the tickets out by early November. I am not sure where my seats will be or how much they will sell them to season ticket holders but I am very excited!

Here is an article in the Chicago Tribune today regarding the tickets: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hocke...0,5616587.story

[Guest CaliWingsNut]

“The game is going to be sold out,” commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday night. “Most of the tickets, not all, are going to be going to the season-ticket holders of the Blackhawks. We’re not going to have a mass public sale like we did in Buffalo last year when we were playing in a 73,000-seat facility.”

Yeah... it's not like it wasn't planned for the big house or anything... damned NHL... choose 30k wrigley over 100k in A^2....

[wingslionstigers 12]

I was looking the other day and seen tickets for that event and seen tickets in the upwards of 700$. It was on ticketpub or some s*** like that can't remember.