The Kanox tickets are back above. Can fans buy it?

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Setting up the ticket price is not very complicated. In the end, it is about thinking that the seller can withstand the market.

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And in the case Vancouver KanoxThey clearly believe that their market can withstand a lot more.

How to explain the increase in season tickets, again, 11 percent or more from this season.

Take an example released by Tony and Tali Show producer of Tony and Tali Show on Czech-TV on Friday.

Since the 2016-17 season of a decade of hockey, he shared the screen shot of a friend’s season tickets. According to his friend, his tickets are in section 304, which is the corner of the top bowl.

For the 2016-17 season, a pair of full season tickets in that section cost 8 4,867.20. For the next season, the same seats go to 900 to 6,900. This is a 40 percent increase in a decade.

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Inflation has become frenzied in the last few years, but not so.

Most of the hike has occurred in the last three seasons: at 2022-23, it costs 5,264 for the fan’s tickets. Keep in mind that the Ganox was actually an increase in the major years of the infection-2020-21, and in the year 2021, the fans were given credit to the missing games at the end of the 2019-20 season in 2021. The price of 2022-23 was in line with fans in 2019-20.

But the cost of those tickets in 2025-26 will be 31 per cent higher than the price of 2022-23.

It is not clear why the big increase. Last year, Canox fans told fans that the new seller of Kanx became bankrupt before it was planned to start work last season – to compensate for things like new seats. Canox got no one, but a spokesman shared some information about the background.

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The group said the increase in ticket revenues would be funded for some things. One of the increasing salary cap is one of the rights and administration as a group that spends the range of a salary cap – but beyond the seat replacing, the update to the stage is ongoing. New facilities for fans are placed. This team improves its snow -making facility for the first time in many years, which is a huge capital cost.

The salary cap is increasing significantly in the upcoming seasons. NHL and NHLPA announced that it would rise to $ 7.5 million for the next season last month, and could be up to $ 113.5 million within three seasons, which is a major leap from the $ 88 million for the season.

But the salary cap is tied up with NHL revenue, and most of the planned growth in the revenue is a new Canadian television agreement directed by the new media rights deals, digital board advertising, digital board advertising and sponsored new sources and scheduled incentives of the Jersey and Helmet Advertisement.

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Chris Gear, who has worked at the Kanux company for more than a decade, is now running a sports consultant Blackfin Sports Group, ticket sales – which are regular seats and suts and other hospitality places – apparently a large part of the league revenue, but it is far from the same thing.

He said, “NHL teams are earning revenue from many sources. First, Gate, then media rights, their regional broadcast rights and national television contracts include their share and any radio rights fees. Next is the Corporate Sponsorship.” Those ads can be placed on helmets and jerseys and digitally in the game “small sources of revenue include arina food and drink.”

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Commercialization is not bigger, but a team like Kanox is more profitable when they have income from their own stores. The game is equally divided into all 32 teams in the sales league by licensed by good stores, as well as sold from NHL’s online stores. Teams make great money from concerts and other events in their arena. Non -hockey events are not calculated as hockey -related income for pay cap purposes.

“There is no need to increase revenue to fund rising cap. This is the opposite. The cap has risen and the revenue of the league has increased,” the gear added.

In conclusion, this explicit decision is residual: the price increase is further reflected, which the owner of the cax believes that it sells a luxury benefit, which evaluates their season ticket members as a symbol, not like an experience.

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Fans of the low -cost ecolones have long estimated the offers that have come with tickets, such as autograph sessions or open procedures with players. But those experiences have declined.

Also, the relationship between the team and the season-ticket holder has changed. Despite the comparative stability of those who were the ticket representative of the ticket holder’s team, the revenue of the staff seems unchanged.

There was a time when fans were not seen as money bags to be filtered, but those days have long been over.

pjohnston@postMedia.com

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