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[rrasco]

Get an Entertainment Book, they have 50% off coupons. Lower bowl tickets in the corners are about $75, with coupon they're under $40 a piece. Or, use the coupon for better tickets and get them for $75. I'm not 100% they have the coupon this year, but they have the last few years, no idea why they would change it now. You don't even need the coupon, just call and tell them you have it, that's what I do.

6000 people sounds like a lot more than it looks like. Our AHL team (Rampage) have attendances ranging from 6-10,000 and the place looks empty when there are 6000 there. Besides the other big names they lost, they also let Richard's walk this offseason, too. I think their attendance will pick up though, maybe not sellouts, but wait until MLB is over and then we'll see.

[95MadeMeCry]

that blows my mind that you could get ticket discounts in the entertainment book..... damn......

[BigWillieStyle]

It's football season in Texas. Nothing else exists. Check back in February, though, I feel their days of constant sellouts are over for now. At least until they get a serious ownership group.

[drwscc]

It's football season in Texas. Nothing else exists. Check back in February, though, I feel their days of constant sellouts are over for now. At least until they get a serious ownership group.

..and some marquis talent that fans can rally around. Turco, Modano, Hull, Richards have all left, and the group of guys they have now don't include any "franchise" players. Benn might be someday, but he's still too young and untested to really pick up the mantle.

[cusimano_brothers]

Finacially troubled franchises can be a tough sell.

[rrasco]

It's football season in Texas. Nothing else exists. Check back in February, though, I feel their days of constant sellouts are over for now. At least until they get a serious ownership group.

Unfortunately, that is kind of the attitude down here, from most people. Although, anybody willing to be open minded about hockey, normally end up addicted. Hockey is not something you can really be a part of here, it's not offered in school, and the leagues that are available have to be sought out and are expensive in comparison from up North, so I'm told. Exposure is very limited. I wish I had the opportunity to play hockey growing up. I played basketball, football, baseball, soccer. Everything but what I really wanted to. Hockey is growing down here, but not fast enough.

[Smite]

I was sent to work in Irving Texas from January to April 2009. Some of the bigger teams on weekends sold out. I saw the Wings play on a sunday for $20 per seat in the nose bleeds (the only ones I could get)

The weekday games with weaker teams I could buy tickets for $9-$11 per seat to sit anywhere in the upper bowl. knowing that they are trying to sell and going bankrupt they problably do not entertain these seats at such a low cost. This was huge bonus to me cause my closest NHL arena in Toronto.

[Cheveldae32]

Been in the Dallas area for almost six years now and the big problem here is the bandwagon. If the Stars are doing well in a few months the place will be packed, if not they will stick with the only team that fans seem to be "loyal" towards....the Cowboys. I wouldn't have guessed there were 50,000 Rangers fans total in this area a few years ago, but they make the post season last year and the bandwagon fills up. It's sad but that is the way it is here, makes us people from Michigan appreciate our fans even more.

[rrasco]

To be fair, it's really like that everywhere. Every sport and every team. Simply put, winning teams sell tickets.

[cusimano_brothers]

From Vancouver Sun:

The Dallas Stars, the bankrupt National Hockey League team, won court approval to sell itself to Vancouver businessman Tom Gaglardi for about $50 million in cash and $100 million in new debt.
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[Hiei]

anything to get them on solid footing. Team's playing some bonkers hockey with Lehtonen holding the fort nicely.

In other news, Blues get a new owner, new coach, and they're playing some bonkers hockey.

[Bring Back The Bruise Bros]

[Hockeymom1960]

[Hiei]

bet it gets pretty cavernous in the AA Center like it did at the united center when teh hawks weren't doing anything.

[Bring Back The Bruise Bros]

11,458 tonight in their win against Edmonton. I don't understand it. The Mavericks are in a lockout. Baseball season is over. The Cowboys don't play until Thanksgiving. The team is playing well.

[Crymson]

I don't understand it either. Did they lose their entire fanbase after 2008?

[Bring Back The Bruise Bros]

I don't understand it either. Did they lose their entire fanbase after 2008?

It has to have something to do with their most well-known guys like Modano, Lehtinen, and Zubov moving on. These guys were there for Dallas' Championship win over Buffalo. Looking around their arena tonight, I saw mostly Modano and Zubov jerseys, and the occasional Benn or Ribeiro jersey. Guys like Brenden Morrow and Steve Ott have been there a long time as well, so the fans are more familiar with them as opposed to a guy like Loui Eriksson. Even looking around the Joe, the majority of jerseys are Yzerman, Lidstrom, Fedorov, and Osgood. All guys were part of our glory years.

[rrasco]

It will be packed come Jan when the men in red roll into town.