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…Consider what it costs to attend games in New York.  Now admittely, these aren’t prices for the Rangers, but rather the Jets, Giants, Mets and Yankees, but it’s not hard to imagine that the Rangers tickets aren’t similarily priced.

According to the New York Times, “Tickets for the best seats at the 85-year-old Yankee Stadium, which sold for $1,000 a seat this season, will jump at the new ballpark to $2,500; in other areas of the stadium, they will range from $135 to $500 for season tickets. Prices for single-game tickets, which ranged from $14 to $400 this season, will be released later.”

Yes, you read that right.  $2500.  Per seat.  For a *baseball* game.

One Yankees fan has four season tickets in the fourth row at Yankee Stadium.  When the Yanks move to their new digs next year, those same seats will be 650 bucks.   A piece.  Per game.  To watch the Yankees play the Kansas City Royals.

Where the hell do people get this kind of money???

Another spends six figures *annually* for seasons tickets to the Jets, Giants, Yankees, Knicks and Rangers.

Actually, according to Andrew’s Dallas Stars page, only Leafs fans pay more than Canucks fans for tickets - $88 at the ACC versus $71 at GM Place.  Then comes Montreal.  Notice a trend here?  None of the Canadian teams are under $60.  The best bargain?  St Louis at $25.48.  The league average is $48.72.

And you can forget the “it’s small market, we have to charge more” line, too.  Both Edmonton and Calgary are smaller, with significantly cheaper tickets than Vancouver.  They seem to be getting better results from the money they raise from their fans, as well.

So, yeah, even though $70 a piece is expensive, be glad you’re not paying for Yankees tickets.

Eighty six games.  If you subscribe to CanucksTV, that’s the number of games you’ll be able to watch on the tube this season.  Of the regular season games, 70 will be broadcast between Rogers Sportsnet, the CBC, and TSN.  Twelve will be PPV, and four pre-season games will also be broadcast - 3 on Rogers, and 1 on TSN.

The breakdown is like this: 45 games on Rogers, 25 on national TV (15 to the CBC, 10 to TSN) and the remaining 12 on CanucksTV.  It’s disappointing, though, that the “big” games against teams that we rarely get to see play the Canucks (ie, Washington, Montreal, New Jersey and Tampa Bay) are all PPV games.  The Leafs on November 15th, though, is programmed specifically for the East (it’s a 4pm Saturday start), but at least it’s on the CBC.

All in all, it could be a lot worse.

Thanks to John Bollwitt of the Crazy Canucks podcast for dropping this announcement into Twitter.