Leafs winless in more places than one
Ducats to a Toronto Maple Leafs home game used to be the most prized possession in the hockey world. So prized, even people who make a good living had to scrimp and save, or take it on the chin for a night out at the ACC. It’s been a couple decades since fans were ticket shy – harkening back to the 80s and the paper bag wearing legion of fans that simply got tired of waiting around for a winning team to materialize under Ballard.
Now its the Teacher’s Penion Fund with a majority stake in an ownership circle that keeps jacking up the prices without the commensurate product on the ice. No big stars. No hockey in June. Hell, mid-April would be nice. According to the Toronto Star, the fans are cooling off right along with the team, and their ticket prices.
I have to admin, while I’m a die hard fan I found it difficult to come up with a business case for lining Leafs ownership pocket with more dollars by ordering Leafs TV this year. The first night that I missed a game because of it went unnoticed – frankly, CSI season DVDs seemed a better bet anyways. Sigh.
Hey, maybe the Leafs are standing around waiting for Phil Kessel to get all better and save the team?
Some sort of weird scheduling happening, which you;d think would be impossible with the 2010 Winter Olympics just around the corner. Tonight is their first back in 3 days, and they don’t play again for a week.
Yeah I know. Everyone has jumped off the wagon but still running beside it waiting for a big win before hopping back on board.
Self included.
It’d be cool if we could make that happen tonight against the Rangers.
After all, November approaches.
GO LEAFS GO!! PLEASE!!!
Toronto Maple Leafs | Mike | 
October 17, 2009 9:48 am
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By TC, October 18, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
It’s refreshing that Leaf fans may finally be showing their disapproval by rebelling against ticket prices. The problem is the real fans still aren’t the ones buying the tickets. It’s obscene how Leaf ownership has treated us over the years. I’d love to see them crawling to us for a change.
TC
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