Yeah it's gotta be a sellout Tuesday - I'll be in 120.
Thursday who the heck knows what the number's going to be, it probably started pretty low since this is the sth giveaway game (and one of the Subway voucher games too). I'll say 12,729 with at least a couple thousand more in the building.
Makes me wonder how many STH's we actually have since they gave every single one of us a free pair of tickets for this game.
Dunno about you, but I can only go to a single game once, so dunno what the point of that was. I did try though, and to use an overtired cliche, "Couldn't even give tickets away"
Watching this one from home cause I'm helping my friend get ready for her Super Bowl party, I'll go with 15,749 for Sunday...and excuse me while I change the thread title ASAP.
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Wow, that's pathetic.
Makes me wonder how many STH's we actually have since they gave every single one of us a free pair of tickets for this game.
Well the low number for the season is just over 12,000...obviously that wasn't all season tickets but I don't think it's 'that' low. Clearly they had some room to play with tonight and there wasn't enough demand in the matter of a few days to fill the building considering they didn't even need to paper the uppers
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Dunno about you, but I can only go to a single game once, so dunno what the point of that was. I did try though, and to use an overtired cliche, "Couldn't even give tickets away"
Well you would have got an upgrade as it turned out, even being unable to give tickets away. And it definitely got a lot of people in the building that wouldn't have been there otherwise considering it took almost a half hour to get through the line after I got there at 6:15. Of course it didn't help that I was at the door closest to the tables, which were packed and almost everyone else was going in the other doors and getting to the front of the line quicker.
No. They don't. One side of the rink is camera visible, and very rarely will you see non-camera visible portions when alternate cameras are used. That being said, you do not see the entire arena, and especially not at the same point in the game. You may get a bit of an exception in other sports, but you don't for hockey at least. Key example is in the dasherboard ads you see around the rink. They are specifically sold as "camera visible" and "non-camera visible." Obviously one is worth a lot more than another. If you're going to let the non-visible side be on TV more than an occasional incidental alternate camera shot, you're costing yourself a lot of money. And to build on that, for national TV games, the league mandates that you have specific dashers on the TV side (and remove competitors of league sponsors from the camera visible side). They do not require you to remove them from the non-visible side, and you know the NHL is on top of their **** to not give anyone free advertising for those games. If they're not showing that side of the rink, they're not showing that side of the arena in any sort of way to get a gauge of what the crowd looks like. If you want to question me on this, watch a nationally televised NHL game this season that is an NBC or NBC Sports (formerly Versus) exclusive game that has a Budweiser dasherboard up. You'll never see it, but that doesn't mean its not up on the other side of the rink.
Makes me wonder how many STH's we actually have since they gave every single one of us a free pair of tickets for this game.
Dunno about you, but I can only go to a single game once, so dunno what the point of that was. I did try though, and to use an overtired cliche, "Couldn't even give tickets away"
No road fans. Possibly the least Montreal fans ever. I'll take that crowd instead of 15K-16K with 2500 bonus Habs fans
No. They don't. One side of the rink is camera visible, and very rarely will you see non-camera visible portions when alternate cameras are used. That being said, you do not see the entire arena, and especially not at the same point in the game. You may get a bit of an exception in other sports, but you don't for hockey at least. Key example is in the dasherboard ads you see around the rink. They are specifically sold as "camera visible" and "non-camera visible." Obviously one is worth a lot more than another. If you're going to let the non-visible side be on TV more than an occasional incidental alternate camera shot, you're costing yourself a lot of money. And to build on that, for national TV games, the league mandates that you have specific dashers on the TV side (and remove competitors of league sponsors from the camera visible side). They do not require you to remove them from the non-visible side, and you know the NHL is on top of their **** to not give anyone free advertising for those games. If they're not showing that side of the rink, they're not showing that side of the arena in any sort of way to get a gauge of what the crowd looks like. If you want to question me on this, watch a nationally televised NHL game this season that is an NBC or NBC Sports (formerly Versus) exclusive game that has a Budweiser dasherboard up. You'll never see it, but that doesn't mean its not up on the other side of the rink.
You get a decent view of the crowd after a goal. The camera behind the shoot twice goal, will pan from left to rightish and you get a decent view of how many people are there.
I do wonder if it will be a big crowd, I don't see why there shouldn't be, its a 1 o clock game and you'll certainly be home before the bowl.
