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Ted's Take
I have had my seats for next season since they became available! The wife and I will be ‘Rockin the Red’ in sec 413 row J seats 18 and 19, why don’t you stop by Ted I’ll buy you a beer or a soda on openning day!
Oneal is right. Fix the ice. We have the bst player, the best practice facility, the best ownership, and the best fans. Why do we have the worst ice?
Just bought 5 full season ticket plans for next year, upgrading from the weekend plan. I also bought the presale tickets offered to STH for the playoffs, and two of the people I brought asked me how much season tickets are today. Thanks for your patience and hard work, Ted. Could you please comment on the state of the ice at Verizon, and what, if any, steps will be taken to fix it. A lot of people have expressed concern, and having played hockey my whole life, I know that if I were a player I would be very upset if I had to play on poor ice.
Ted,
It’s pretty simple: I’ll buy season tickets if the ice gets fixed. Deal?
We’re in! And can’t wait. Will also be looking to up quantities for a few weekend games so we can bring our nephews.
Ted:
As a lifetime hockey player and Rangers fan, I must commend you and your organization for truly making the hockey experience a fan experience. Seeing you in the stands and the product you have produced is a breath of fresh air. The Capitals have truly made me a fan…so much that a New Yorker will be buying seasons tickets next year to the Caps! I attended about 10 games last year, and I can honestly say I have never enjoyed watching games as much as I did this year.
Thank you…and the rest of the Capitals organization…for bringing back the love I had for hockey when I was a kid.
PS – Alex the GR8 MVP…and….LETS GO CAPS!!!
I’m in! I’m back in the fold. Bought a pair of Full Season Tickets the other day. I believe in the work and dedication you’ve shown over the past few years and you deserve and will get my full support! Thanks Ted !!!
I will probably get STH’s prior to the start of 08. I think we can sell out the entire arena prior to the season. Hockey is starting to become off the charts in DC. I saw many people that weren’t into hockey are now hockey nuts. This is great! The days of small crowds in October/November are over. The Verizon Center will be packed all year to the max. Get your tickets Caps fans because this will soon become the toughest ticket in all of Washington. These season tix packages are being sold at an incredible price with some great benefits to being an STH. I will be on board very soon!!
Ted, I’ll do my part. I constantly encourage all my hockey buddies to look into season tickets. It really is a great deal, especially with the ticket exchange to deal with games you can’t attend. There are so many advantages to the program. I honestly think that it is a much better deal than a 10-game plan, from my experience this year. I do not think you do enough advertising to convince people of the advantages. In particular, I had never considered season tickets prior to this year, because I figured there was no way I could attend more than 20-25 games. But with ticket exchange, plus the price advantage, you don’t have to in order to make season tickets pay off economically. I believe 90% of non-STH do not understand the economics. And when it comes playoff time, the advantages of season tickets are obviously HUGE.
Let me also say that I will continue to do what I did this year in the playoffs. Whenever you offer a ticket discount to season ticket holders, I buy extra tickets and give them to my friends for what I pay for them. I have gotten several people hooked on going to Caps games this way, and it also helps ensure that no Flyers or Penguins fans can get those tickets. If you offer ticket discounts for extra tickets when the STH packages come out in September, I will buy extra tickets for my friends for a bunch of the games, especially the Flyers and Penguins and other big weekend games.
On your end, perhaps you could do something about the ice (see OFB–I noticed the same thing during the anthem) and shell out some bucks for Huet, Fedorov, and a big mean veteran D.
Why is it I get the impression that partial plan holders who have been with the team for years are going to end up getting screwed?
Thanks Ted for a great season, and for many more to come.
I already got my season tickets, they are my first season tickets since I became a Caps fan back in the late 1980′s.
Its been rough ride been a Cap fan specially since we were never able to win the Stanley Cup, but thanks to you the future looks real promising.
Thank You
Martin
I think it would be to your benefit to set up a way that fans can hook up and get together on a Season Ticket. I did this back in 1998 and have been splitting the Season ticket each year. I couldn’t afford a season ticket (2 seats) on my own so I split a ticket with a friend and see twice as many games as the 10 game plan I could afford and with my share of the cost, it costs me almost the same amount as my own 10 game plan.
I don’t mind full buildings, but not with STH. I like being able to get tickets for out of town friends when they happen to be here on game day.
I guess it is supposed to be some measure of manliness to play with a dislocated shoulder and broken jaw but it just seems stupid to me. Guess it didn’t matter since we (sadly shockingly suddenly) lost, but as the mother of 6 year old hockey player and I don’t like the sound of those types of “heroics”!
This was our first year of full season ticket holders after only going to the games when the Islanders and Sabres were in town in the past. It was worth every minute and we will be back next season. I know that the Caps Crowd is growing as well. The first year after the lockout I tried to get a Caps hat, shirt, or anything up here in Anne Arundel County and couldn’t get anything close to home. Yesterday I was at the Arundel Mills and Caps stuff was everywhere. Winning fixes everything.
Fix the ice, Ted.
It probably lost you game 7, which means..
It probably lost you at least two more sold out home play-off games, against the Penguins. Any guess on what the ratings for those games would have been on Comcast?
It probably lost you Chris Clark.
It probably lost the Flyers’ Mike Knuble.
Assurances from experts aren’t enough. It’s time to get it done or move the team to another building.
That being said, thanks for all you’ve done for the Caps.
Oneal
Even when the Caps were consistently a playoff team, (the 80′s) they never sold out every game. I think I remember them averaging high 15k’s-low 16K’s over the season though with almost every game from Feb-April sold out or close to it. Once the Skins are done, attendance skyrockets.
Weekend games work best for me and I’m working on a plan with someone as weeknight games don’t work too well. For game 7 I left NOVA at 4:30 and thanks to the usual traffic headaches got to Vienna Metro, parked and made it to the Red Sea aka Verizon Center with ten minutes to spare.
I hope this becomes a tough ticket in town.
To paraphrase the late Charlton Heston:
I’ll give up my Caps tickets when you take them from my cold, dead hands…
(No, sorry, no quotes about certain teams from PA being comprised of “Damn, Dirty Apes”…)
I’m already in for next season. Two friends and I are sharing 4 seats. This is something I’ve wanted to do since Verizon Center opened and I’m thrilled my ability to do it came at such an exciting time for the team.
As for selling out every game, I don’t expect it until we win a Cup, but I am thinking and hoping the turnout will be solid next year. I think the team has awoken hockey fandom in this city and we’ll see a difference in the fan base for the regular season too. It won’t be the scene of incredible red-outs as it was in the playoffs and the games leading up to them, but I expect it will be good.
Thank you, Ted.
Hi Ted,
Is there a plan for people who live out of town like myself (Brooklyn NY)? I think I’d just like to attend 5-10 games on weekends. Should I just contact the ticket office?
Thanks.