Even the most loyal fans of the Vancouver Canucks may be hanging up their jerseys this week as the team reportedly raised the ticket price for the next season.<\/p>\n
Canucks season ticket holders took to social media after receiving a letter from the team, which said it was adding one regular-season game and new benefits next season.<\/p>\n
But fans also reported that the price of their seats had risen between 5 to 10 per cent compared to the current season. Others claim to have seen a 25 per cent increase.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am personally absolutely floored and shocked that Canucks decided to increase prices for [season ticket holders], when most tickets are going for 50 per cent less on the secondary market,\u201d said one Reddit user on the r\/canucks subreddit.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy lower bowl seats were almost 10 per cent more!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy ticket package is $30,000, and while I understand I am in a privileged position to be able to afford\u2026 the price is not justified in the product at this time,\u201d said another user.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 25 per cent increase in ticket prices without warning was a slap in the face, but I gave it one more year because of how much fun games can be when there\u2019s a winning environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaron Tweedy from Half Moon Bay tells 1130 News Radio he may finally give away his seats after being a season ticket holder for seven years.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, I got to six games out of 21,\u201d says Tweedy. \u201cI gave the rest away. I\u2019d be more likely to go if the team was any good. I mean it\u2019s entertainment and there is not a lot of that. Now, they scaled back on a lot of entertainment\u2026all that said, I mean they\u2019ve raised the prices every year since I\u2019ve been a ticket holder and they haven\u2019t raised a cup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom Mayenknecht, host of The Sport Market on Sportsnet 650, says, for him, the Canucks have officially hit rock bottom.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve never finished dead last in the National Hockey League, at least in the modern history of the 32-team circuit,\u201d said Mayenknecht.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only have they lost a vast majority of their games, they\u2019ve only got eight home wins, and if you\u2019re paying for season tickets or\u2026.even for a single ticket and almost every time you go, you\u2019re losing, it obviously has an impact on the way you connect to the product.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayenknecht says it\u2019s too early to tell if historically loyal fans are abandoning the Canucks, adding that the team typically sees more than 90 per cent season ticket renewals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time around, the season ticket renewals are going out in the context of this dead-last performance and the fact that the franchise is in a rebuild. The only thing that fixes ticket prices is demand, and if the Canucks do wind up meeting their targets, they\u2019re going to go forward with it. Obviously, the strategy is to try and provide other value as an incentive, but it\u2019s not an easy sell.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayenknecht says there seems to be a disconnect between the team\u2019s hockey and business operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cBusiness [operations] in this letter to season ticket holders, are basically saying \u2018the new era of the Vancouver Canucks are here\u2019. The hockey [operations] are basically saying \u2018we are in a rebuild and it\u2019s going to take a couple of seasons to get to where we need to be.’\u201d<\/p>\n
The Canucks will face off against the Los Angeles Kings at Rogers Arena Thursday night in hopes of boosting their ranking.<\/p>\n
1130 NewsRadio has reached out to the Vancouver Canucks for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even the most loyal fans of the Vancouver Canucks may be hanging up their jerseys this week as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-566054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}