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Gale Force ... You're On the Clock ... Post Season Changes Thread

We toss around salaries that are in the millions.
Figure $15 parking for 4000 cars,I figure that is about the number of cars STH's will have per game, and that is 60,000 per game, times 41 is about 2.4 million it would 'cost' for good will. And darned worth it also.
 
Getting free parking for non-premium STHs would be fantastic, but that'll never happen. We get do a discount off the regular price.
 
Ok, good. At least they still have the discount available for season ticket holders.

The N&O article earlier this year about the cost of parking had quotes from a guy claiming that just about all of the money collected for parking goes to pay for the people who work the lots and for maintenance of the lot. Yes I know that is not true, but supposedly the Canes don't really profit at all from the parking. I think they could/should extend free general parking to more season ticket holders, that is an immediate benefit that is clear and bankable.
 
They could do VIP parking for Champions Club, Preferred for Full, and General for 26 and 12 gamers (with an option to "apply" the savings to preferred.


But they don't and won't.

They are still trying to convince me that my price did not increase, when my invoice sure seemed higher than last year (which is why I dropped).....Not my problem that they have a sales tax now...its theirs, and they handled it wrong.
 
At one point Walnut Creek added parking to ticket cost. Not sure if that is still the case. Wonder if they will ever take credit/debit cards for parking. Probably not.

BTW, I finally found another arena or stadium that has metal detectors - the Titans stadium in Nashville. But next year MLB will require all their stadiums to have them, some already used them this year.
 
The canes are really messed up. The first question they must ask is 'who is important to the success of the team'?
And a clue mr. Waddel, it isn't the Staals, cward, semin or skinner. It's your fans. And the most important fans are your STH base.
Second question - how many fans do the Staals, semin, skinner bring in?
Now that you're turned around, what can you do to attract and keep these fans?
We mentioned parking, that would go a great distance.
Second, a lot of fans/STHs take Pride and enjoy the socialization of the event, the tail gating and friendship. A great number find this much more important than the sucky hockey. Find a way to enhance this. Maybe put the storm trooper girls out and have them join in the partying. Maybe send some of the players out for a stint in the parking lot. And don't give us this crap they are mentally preparing for the contest. Maybe meeting the fans at the tailgate will give them something to play for. Yes, the fans are real people, not just small faces in the stands.
Engage the players in youth hockey and other youth oriented programs. Make the players real heroes to the kids.

Now Waddel, use your imagination and garner some team support. You might surprise yourself and increase both the season ticket sales and game sales.


And after I wrote, this appears.
http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Brad-Marsh/Are-Hockey-Players-Role-Models/197/62736
 
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This season is likely a lost cause...both on and off the ice. Unless some miracle happens this team needs to start planning the Eric Staal trade for the major core rebuild it needs by the Holidays. I (kinda?) get giving it one last go to start the season, but once reality kicks in this year please start the rebuild around the YOUNG core of this team and acquire picks, prospects, and young budding stars in exchange for the tradeable assets. Hopefully E. Staal bobblehead night is planned before the trade deadline.

If we start next season with essentially the same older overpaid core of both Staals, Semin, Ward, etc it will just prove this team is absolutely clueless and has no long range plan other than see what market becomes the highest bidder for PK.
 
For those of you who were at the game last night, how did Staal, Semin and Tlustly look? I was unable to listen to the game beyond the first and that seemed to be about the game misconduct to LaRose. Curious on how the vets looked.
 
I don't think coach left the lines intact very long. Semin seemed to be playing on different lines. I only noticed Staal and Trusty a couple of times. I'd swear they were the 4th line.
 
Once LaRose went out a mere 3+ minutes into the game Peters had to juggle the forwards the rest of the night.
 
Staal, Tlusty, and Semin all were within 30 seconds of TOI from one another, all between 19 and 20 minutes.

Peters evidently runs a pretty tight and programmed ship for ice time. Heard him joking in post-game interviews that they had planned for 14 minutes of ice time for LaRose and they fell 13 minutes short.

But, given that first line amount of ice time, I wasn't that impressed with any of them. Semin caught the eye more so than the other two.

It was that second line that dazzled.

EDIT: Event Summary
 
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So ... they went to DC yesterday and layed a big old egg. Congrats. Kabby made 33 stops and we still got pummeled.
 
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