drop ticket prices, control sales to 3rd party vendors.
Double post check other thread
Give tickets to the fans and not the suits trying to impress their clients / business partners
Also lower the fucking prices, why are we paying $1000 to watch the god damn leafs?
If a season ticket isn’t filled at game time it should go on sale at the gate deeply discounted. It breaks my heart seeing so many empty seats in a playoff game.
Resell all tickets at a flat $200, and not allow anyone to sell their ticket.
First come first serve lottery.
maybe if they had a team to cheer for that isn’t constantly letting them down
People are giving a lot of excuses but I’m convinced this is just Leafs fans. Look at how this subreddit is any time the Leafs go down or lose.
These fans are not built for being proactive, as Bowen puts it.
I don’t think there’s any “fixing” the home crowd.
With ticket prices being so high this is what you get. Most people just can’t afford to go that aren’t rich. Also we’re used to being let down so a lot of it is due to that fear. 1 series win in 20 years isn’t exactly a reason to cheer.
What’s disappointing is our best players not being the best players again. Between marner, Mathews, Tavares they have 2 goals, 3 assists. That’s not good enough, marner didn’t have a shot even tonight.
Win some games.
Give all tickets to early 2000s raptors fans.
It’s hard to be good in the crowd when you spend multiple days pay to watch an eleven million dollar winger who clearly does not care. The cooperate culture in the acc is a problem, but it’s not the issue right now. Check out games from the Washington series a few years ago, before we learned. Place was jumping.
I would move all the people who complain about the people in attendance to siberia.
Stop disappointing us
Honestly I was there and crowd started hot but there’s only so much awful officiating and soul destroying power plays that any crowd can take. They rallied in the last ten minutes but damage was done
Winning at home usually helps
i’d have a better product on the ice.
Have a fan zone in the lower bowl. Pay off all the suits regular season tickets in one section and resell them to real fans for the playoffs. Make tickets available in 2 or 4 ticket blocks, available in person purchase only. Not available online. Only sell them game by game. Be face value at regular season prices. Make that section behind the benches in full view of the tv cameras. Dress code; no suit jackets allowed. Team apparel or colours only. Fuck it give them a free shirt that is mandatory.
Any answer other than “affordable tickets” is wrong. Fans are willing to make noise and do so in other arenas. Lower bowl is joyless suits.
Leafs have had a rather dreadful home playoff record with the current core over the last half dozen years or so. I think there’s a certain predisposition to thinking “oh, here we go again” whenever the Leafs fall behind.
The government should seize the team and we should all be cheering for The People’s Glorious Ice Hockey Squad of Democratic Freedom. We can stand in line in the snow for days on end hoping to get a ticket, then stand in line even longer for an off brand “cola” drink that tastes like shoe leather. Also, if we catch anyone not standing perfectly straight during the anthem we can report them and make their whole families disappear.
I will bite my nose off SO hard to really teach my face a lesson! Who’s with me?
I know it’ll never happen unfortunately but significantly dropping the price of tickets so every day people can go watch, enjoy and cheer loudly for their team.
We need to have Baltic style fans. The type that cause structural damage to stands
Good point for sure. My biggest gripe is how the sound guys DOMINATE the crowd with their bullshit sound clips from Maple Leaf Gardens (organ music? wtf?) It’s so loud you feel like your voice has no chance of being heard. It’s ALWAYS been like that there. They KILL the crowd noise… Idiots!
Ok hear me out.
1. Find the loudest hockey parents from across the GTA. You know the ones that yell at the 15-yo Ref during a house league novice game? Them. 2. Get a hypnotist to convince them their kid plays for the Leafs. 3. Crowdfund some tickets and get these people close to the Bruins bench. 4. Profit.
I was at work with no access to the game. What was the problem? Just lack of noise? Were there sarcastic fans?
Lower ticket prices and allow TRUE leafs fans to attend games, instead of these rich elitist cunts that only go bc it’s the thing to spend money on.
Don’t they learn anything from Rogers Place when all those Leaf fans show up in Edmonton to watch the two of em go at it? Rogers place is fuckin’ electric
Seriously? You’re just figuring that out now? This is my first season as a leafs fan and even I noticed that a long time ago. Hell, it seemed to me that the leaf fans in Edmonton and Calgary were louder than the leafs at home. And games in Buffalo should be considered home ice advantage.
Why does
Joe Bowen write tweets
Like an archetypal Boomer
And forgets to add punctuation
And uses ALL-CAPS for emphasis
IT’S SO CRINGE
No one making over $60k gets a ticket.
First come first serve ticket sales
Scolding paying customers for not carrying on a certain way and being disappointed for the multimillion players who have one round victory in decades is a fascinating take.
If I were the President of the Leafs, I would make a rule that players are not allowed to complain about the media in Toronto and certainly not the fans.
Let the fans in. But MLSE can’t do that because $$$. Ive been to games and sat in a box because a Waterloo tech company offered tickets to my gf as a perk. I can’t stand the Leafs but I enjoy free food so I always went. In the box I just watch the basketball game or sit on the couch and play a game. Good times.
Will never happen. MLSE exists to make money, period.
Seeing as MLSE will never get rid of corporate tickets, I’d say make a fan zone similar to that you see in European football. Cheaper seats, maybe behind one of the nets, in exchange for the expectation that all of the energy in the building starts from that one area
Yeah I’m sorry TO but after going to a Canucks game this year in Vancouver. the atmosphere at their games is way more positive and fun than in TO
STOP BLAMING THE FANS FOR FAILURES OF THE TEAM ! Maybe, just maybe if they won something in the last quarter century, this wouldn’t be an issue. Just another excuse in a long line of excuses. You’re better than this Joe.
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Free tickets and free booze
drop ticket prices, control sales to 3rd party vendors.
Double post check other thread
Give tickets to the fans and not the suits trying to impress their clients / business partners
Also lower the fucking prices, why are we paying $1000 to watch the god damn leafs?
If a season ticket isn’t filled at game time it should go on sale at the gate deeply discounted. It breaks my heart seeing so many empty seats in a playoff game.
Resell all tickets at a flat $200, and not allow anyone to sell their ticket.
First come first serve lottery.
maybe if they had a team to cheer for that isn’t constantly letting them down
People are giving a lot of excuses but I’m convinced this is just Leafs fans. Look at how this subreddit is any time the Leafs go down or lose.
These fans are not built for being proactive, as Bowen puts it.
I don’t think there’s any “fixing” the home crowd.
With ticket prices being so high this is what you get. Most people just can’t afford to go that aren’t rich. Also we’re used to being let down so a lot of it is due to that fear. 1 series win in 20 years isn’t exactly a reason to cheer.
What’s disappointing is our best players not being the best players again. Between marner, Mathews, Tavares they have 2 goals, 3 assists. That’s not good enough, marner didn’t have a shot even tonight.
Win some games.
Give all tickets to early 2000s raptors fans.
It’s hard to be good in the crowd when you spend multiple days pay to watch an eleven million dollar winger who clearly does not care. The cooperate culture in the acc is a problem, but it’s not the issue right now. Check out games from the Washington series a few years ago, before we learned. Place was jumping.
I would move all the people who complain about the people in attendance to siberia.
Stop disappointing us
Honestly I was there and crowd started hot but there’s only so much awful officiating and soul destroying power plays that any crowd can take. They rallied in the last ten minutes but damage was done
Winning at home usually helps
i’d have a better product on the ice.
Have a fan zone in the lower bowl. Pay off all the suits regular season tickets in one section and resell them to real fans for the playoffs. Make tickets available in 2 or 4 ticket blocks, available in person purchase only. Not available online. Only sell them game by game. Be face value at regular season prices. Make that section behind the benches in full view of the tv cameras. Dress code; no suit jackets allowed. Team apparel or colours only. Fuck it give them a free shirt that is mandatory.
Any answer other than “affordable tickets” is wrong. Fans are willing to make noise and do so in other arenas. Lower bowl is joyless suits.
Leafs have had a rather dreadful home playoff record with the current core over the last half dozen years or so. I think there’s a certain predisposition to thinking “oh, here we go again” whenever the Leafs fall behind.
The government should seize the team and we should all be cheering for The People’s Glorious Ice Hockey Squad of Democratic Freedom. We can stand in line in the snow for days on end hoping to get a ticket, then stand in line even longer for an off brand “cola” drink that tastes like shoe leather. Also, if we catch anyone not standing perfectly straight during the anthem we can report them and make their whole families disappear.
I will bite my nose off SO hard to really teach my face a lesson! Who’s with me?
I know it’ll never happen unfortunately but significantly dropping the price of tickets so every day people can go watch, enjoy and cheer loudly for their team.
We need to have Baltic style fans. The type that cause structural damage to stands
Good point for sure. My biggest gripe is how the sound guys DOMINATE the crowd with their bullshit sound clips from Maple Leaf Gardens (organ music? wtf?) It’s so loud you feel like your voice has no chance of being heard. It’s ALWAYS been like that there. They KILL the crowd noise… Idiots!
Ok hear me out.
1. Find the loudest hockey parents from across the GTA. You know the ones that yell at the 15-yo Ref during a house league novice game? Them.
2. Get a hypnotist to convince them their kid plays for the Leafs.
3. Crowdfund some tickets and get these people close to the Bruins bench.
4. Profit.
I was at work with no access to the game. What was the problem? Just lack of noise? Were there sarcastic fans?
Lower ticket prices and allow TRUE leafs fans to attend games, instead of these rich elitist cunts that only go bc it’s the thing to spend money on.
Don’t they learn anything from Rogers Place when all those Leaf fans show up in Edmonton to watch the two of em go at it? Rogers place is fuckin’ electric
Seriously? You’re just figuring that out now? This is my first season as a leafs fan and even I noticed that a long time ago. Hell, it seemed to me that the leaf fans in Edmonton and Calgary were louder than the leafs at home. And games in Buffalo should be considered home ice advantage.
Why does
Joe Bowen write tweets
Like an archetypal Boomer
And forgets to add punctuation
And uses ALL-CAPS for emphasis
IT’S SO CRINGE
No one making over $60k gets a ticket.
First come first serve ticket sales
Scolding paying customers for not carrying on a certain way and being disappointed for the multimillion players who have one round victory in decades is a fascinating take.
If I were the President of the Leafs, I would make a rule that players are not allowed to complain about the media in Toronto and certainly not the fans.
Let the fans in. But MLSE can’t do that because $$$. Ive been to games and sat in a box because a Waterloo tech company offered tickets to my gf as a perk. I can’t stand the Leafs but I enjoy free food so I always went. In the box I just watch the basketball game or sit on the couch and play a game. Good times.
Will never happen. MLSE exists to make money, period.
Seeing as MLSE will never get rid of corporate tickets, I’d say make a fan zone similar to that you see in European football. Cheaper seats, maybe behind one of the nets, in exchange for the expectation that all of the energy in the building starts from that one area
Yeah I’m sorry TO but after going to a Canucks game this year in Vancouver. the atmosphere at their games is way more positive and fun than in TO
STOP BLAMING THE FANS FOR FAILURES OF THE TEAM ! Maybe, just maybe if they won something in the last quarter century, this wouldn’t be an issue. Just another excuse in a long line of excuses. You’re better than this Joe.