Original reporting: https://theathletic.com/5293782/2024/02/23/winnipeg-jets-attendance-issues-nhl/
Even playing out of the NHL’s smallest permanent arena, which holds 15,225 fans for hockey games, the Jets are drawing just 87.4 percent of capacity this season, the third-lowest mark in the 32-team league. Their overall average attendance of 13,306 is the lowest of any NHL team other than the Arizona Coyotes, who are playing in a college arena. And that’s despite the Jets being one of the top-performing teams in the Western Conference.
Winnipeg’s season-ticket base has suffered a 27 percent decline in just three years, falling from approximately 13,000 to just under 9,500, according to the Jets.
Chapters:
0:00 Amazing reporting by the Athletic
1:22 Details on Jets attendance
3:44 Recent fall-off
5:11 What are the Jets doing to fix this?
7:04 Uphill battle in Winnipeg
9:56 Is the NHL noticing?
10:35 Takeaways
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Transparent? More like a ploy to get renos or a free arena.
Winnipegs median household income is $80K CAD, Calgary is $118K CAD.
It's economic, the team needs to find other revenue streams and a way to lower prices.
In the everchanging flux of the Canadian mosaic, Winnipeg unfortunately has a reputation of not supporting local talent in the long-term. It's that midway locale in Canada which has always been a brief 'stop on the trail' as a gateway going east or west. The Guess Who, Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman are from Winnipeg, yet they found their fame and fortune elsewhere in Canada and the World. The Jets maybe playing the card for a new arena, time will tell.
Dude, your a wank!!! Focus on the Arizona joke and the San Jose team…those 2 teams are dying a slow death….
I dont understand the math here.. 15,500 seats… 9k STM….. assuming and its a BIG assumpton that if STMs hold 2 seats the place would be sold out all the time? Maybe season ticket members/Holders only have 1 seat?. Lots of lonely winnipeg fans go in all by themselves? It doesnt add up to me..
I was thinking the same thing about the Winnipeg market. The population of the drivable area is not like other cities. Even Edmonton has Calgary somewhat close. But good for Winnipeg for raising the red flag. With all the expansion talk they are probably trying to turn it around before there is a clear viable candidate for an expansion team. Otherwise they would be an easy target, after AZ.
2 huge factors happening locally. First. Justin Trudeau has destroyed our economy. Mortgage payments are double, groceries triple the cost. People can’t make luxury spends. Second factor. Large segment of liberal people locally. They love covid lockdowns and are now very Leary of going out in public. The thought of going into a giant super spreader event makes them anxious. These two factors have cut season tickets very very low.
Fake news. They wont be lraving Winnipeg anytime soon. Thumbs down
Moose or Jets, rather go to a Moose game.
Move the jets to mississauga in ontario, and it will be a billion dollar franchise
I don’t think attendance alone is the reason to sound the alarm otherwise the Panthers would have left Miami years ago, yes Winnipeg may have its problems like all markets do but there have to be other factors that would need to be in play for me to be worried but this proves my point we should focus on the current members and not add more to the club
This just reflects how poorly the Canadian economy is doing as a whole.
The Peg having a season of less than perfect attendance, in my opinion, is not cause enough to start considering a relocation. The Coyotes have had shitty attendance since their inception, and the Panthers can barely sellout. I remember seeing incredibly bad attendance at Islanders games for years, and they're still around. If that damn American Bettman, insists on pulling out of Winnipeg in favour of a another US team, then fuck him, and fuck the NHL.
Houston Jets
The problem is that tickets are damn expensive and there are no cheap ones to be had. I grew up in Winnipeg and went to games regularly in the early NHL days there – even working a low paying job it was still affordable. Not so any more. When the cheapest seat you can get is around $150 how many games can working people on tight budgets afford to attend? Every year the players push for bigger paydays and ticket prices keep going up. Attending pro sports contests used to be a pastime of the masses – now it's getting out of reach. The only way to fill the arenas in smaller markets is to drop ticket prices but I don't see that happening.
Owners should move to quebec city and call the team bombardier. After name that makes jets. Be very fitting
The Jets knew last season they had an issue. That’s why they didn’t do a full rebuild the only reason. Winnipeg is a great city with passionate fans and the richest person in Canada owning the team. Financially Manitoba is struggling bad, unlike the bigger cities in Canada it does not take much to all fall apart. Jets are not going anywhere, the league understands they will try to use scare tactics probably to use this issue to build a new arena.
The Jets aren’t going snywhere
Sounds like Bettman is looking for another excuse to move a Winnipeg team to Arizona again when the hours fold or move. This shit is beyond annoyning now first the youts then you give every advantage to the failure that’s Las Vegas so much so you put them in the cup final with the NHLs whipping boy. It’s not going to work there it hasn’t worked there but I bet we get a team in fucking Reno before we get on in QC.
Everyone in Winnipeg would go to games if they could afford the tickets. People are poor at the moment.
Move them Atlanta 😂
nobody can afford to go even down in the US its expensive as hell to go out to a NHL game compared to other shit. plus parking alone is like 40 bucks…..
Go woke, go broke.
Sports will never be what they once were. The days of the humble, thankful athlete have been replaced by dudes who think they’re better than the fans. Of course, the economy is affecting things, but even when the economy bounces back, the sports leagues will never be making the cash they once made.
Blue Bombers success splitting disposable income?
Let's try Atlanta again. LOL
get it to Quebec!
Ever since they went full debit/credit, which increases prices everything in the Canada Life Centre cuz of terminal fees, noone is able to afford anything. We up here in Canada are being taxed half to death.
In Manitoba our economy is garbage.
2,000 fans not showing up. The economic viability numbers are tight for small market Winnipeg. Nice people in Manitoba. Need a long run in the playoffs to bring back demand.