Update (8:16 PM): George Malik, an outspoken critic of the team’s relationship with the fans (or lack thereof), has the perfect headline to his post on the ticket announcement: “Hell freezes over as Wings offer $9 tix.” That about sums it up. - Matt
At the end of a solid post on a number of players on the team, Ansar Khan includes the news that, starting Sep. 13 at 10:00 AM, the team will sell special $9 tickets for each homegame. Purchases will be limited to two tickets per person and can only be made at the JLA box office. The tickets will only be releasted on a monthly basis, though, so you won’t be able to buy a ticket to the New Year’s Eve game yet.
No information yet on where the seats will be (the seating chart has not yet been updated), but there aren’t really any bad seats at the Joe so no real worries there. $9 is $9, after all. For $9, I’d sit in the rafters if it meant I got to watch the Wings in person. I’ll definitely be taking advantage of this a few times this year. Or trying to, anyway. I’m sure these’ll sell out real fast, since this is just the kind of thing that will entice people to go to games they previously couldn’t afford to attend.
The official announcement is here (a direct link so you can avoid the Wings’ awful splash page). And be sure to check out the rest of Khan’s post, which includes interesting tidbits on Rafalski’s assimilation process and Draper’s possible new role as a top-six winger, among other things.
Sweet, I remember back in the day when tickets were very affordable and going to a lot of hockey game but over the past 9 years it been too far in between trying to get to one. Now it should be no problem to go to at least 15 games this year. Great news indeed.
It’s times like these I wish I lived in Windsor lol. Maybe I can convince some of my friends to take a few trips down to the Joe this season. I just hope we make it to one game.