@@Toronto Maple Leafs

This is why the building isn’t a tough place to play

  • April 26, 2024


Almost 2k for a pair of tickets in the end zone 15 rows up… for a round 1 game. This sucks

The only fans that can afford these tickets are the kind that don’t make noise…

37 comments

  2. If the tickets were cheaper and more accessible, wouldn’t there be a lot of casual fans who don’t really care about the team?

    I would’ve thought expensive tickets mean you go only if you’re a true diehard fan and make the most out of your experience and cheer like crazy.

  3. Oh my God, such an insufferable take.

    I’m going to repost something I posted earlier:

    I hope you understand that having less money doesn’t make someone more of a fan.

    I came from very little, and I’m fortunate enough to make enough money to occasionally attend games in very good seats.

    I can assure you that I still care just as much as a decently paid adult as I did when I was a broke ass child.

    And like… what about people that just go to a game for a social outing and don’t care about the Leafs at all? Are they not welcome? Should we question everyone that attempts to enter the arena and reject them if they don’t meet some “true fan” criteria?

    There is *plenty* to hate the rich about, but please give up this tired narrative that only people in the upper bowl are real fans.

    And in any event, while certain games might feel quiet and corporatey (mid-week game in November against a bad team), there was nothing corporatey about Wednesday’s crowd.

    It was fucking good. End of story.

  4. I thought it was the shit team construction and disappearing in the playoffs. If only we had cheaper tickets, all of that would be solved!

  5. Back in Roman times, rich people and poor watched poor athletes compete. Then it turned into some rich people and less so watching rich athletes compete in modern times.

    Now you have to be rich to watch rich people compete. ( cries in his Puppers).

  6. yup. exactly this. Fuck this system. European soccer controls it so the stadium is full of real fans because they know it contributes to a winning culture. fuck MLSE for what they’re doing to the team and the city.

  8. That’s not why!
    The team is unreliable as it’s currently coached.
    Think about some of the much less talented teams in the past that have won cups with systems and proper coaching.

  10. Hah! And these are the ones that are available. 85% of these lower bowl seats are owned by B2B packages(Business to business) – corps, law firms, hedge funds, etc. buy tickets together and split them for networking, meetings, entertaining business partners.

    I’ve had the fortune of sitting in lower bowl a few times with my dad and these guys in suits show up in the 2nd period, yap the whole time, pay little attention to the game.

  11. It doesnt matter. We gotta dig deep. Bowen said it best, players couldnt feed off our energy. Is it expansive? Yes, but right now we are the laughing stock of the league. Borrow some money, go to the game and make some noise

  15. It isn’t a tough place to play because our team is mediocre, and has been the entire Matthews era.

  18. I got face value tickets for the game, upper bowl, row 16, for $288 per. It’s a lot, no doubt, but it’s not out of line with what pro sports costs. NFL tickets and many NBA games are more than that

  20. Also, ticketmaster having a monopoly on ticket market is a factor in high ticket prices

  21. Incorrect. Look up Oilers and Canucks tickets, you’ll find they’re even more expensive than Leafs tickets…

  22. Hockey is a business.

    What business would charge less when they still sellout at these prices?

    I don’t blame the company at all.

  23. This will stop when my FIL’s generation is gone.
    The people so desperate to relive their childhood and spend hundreds of dollars on a hockey ticket.

  28. If there’s a second Toronto team with a bit of competition and MLSE doesn’t have a monopoly, things could change.

    Until then, “Get fucked regular fan”.

  29. Every year, the people who don’t understand supply and demand come out of the woodworks to complain about this shit.

    This is like saying “Why doesn’t McDonalds charge $1 for a cheeseburger. That way the people who are actually hungry could afford them”. There’s a market clearing price. They charge it. Get over it.

  30. Yet another person whining about Leafs fans. Go back to the Sens sub.

    And don’t give me that bullshit about fandom being determined by income level. Have you ever been to a Leafs game? It’s not like the 300’s are cheering any differently than people in the lower bowl. 

    Sorry, but the world doesn’t owe you everything someone else has. Leafs tickets aren’t a human right. If you want more out of life, make better decisions. 

  31. Why does everyone always make it seem like only poor people can be real fans? Toronto has a lot of high income earners that can afford tickets and many of them are real fans too.

  32. Fuck I’m old! I remember my dad’s regular tickets at the Gardens, we had 5th row reds in the visitors corner….$24.
    How do regular Joes with regular jobs even get to these games these days?
    I’ve been a fan since the Sittler Salming days and I’m WAY WAY priced out.

  33. These are direct from the Leafs not secondary?

    Ffs.

    Im a corporate guy myself but J hate corporate guys as fans. They should be rowdy as fuck even if they’re corporate

  34. I dont mean to sound rude but i once had front row seats and man the players literally never looked at the crowd. They completely tune them out. I dont know whats with this whole new stance about the fans

  35. Just read that young fans in England can buy ticket to the FA Cup final between ManCity and ManUtd – two of the biggest soccer clubs on the planet – for £40 from which the club subsided £30 for under 16 fans. Fuck Ticketmasters and this system that pricing out fans

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