great series buffalo, this is what rivalries are all about, we call you divers, i completely disrespect your coach, and get nervous when briere gets the puck. Buffalo-Carolina games will be circled on my calender next season. this won't be the last conference final this young sabres team will see, guys like Vanek will lead your team to new heights.

6/2/2006 12:04:18 PM

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"yeah there refundable, and game 1 hasn't sold out yet"

According to news channel 11, the finals have sold out and standing room only tickets are the only ones left at $280 per ticket.

any more bullshit you want to spew?

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 12:13 PM. Reason : *]

6/2/2006 12:12:45 PM

i don't know about vanek, he's been kind of shaky lol

6/2/2006 12:12:59 PM

yea i messed around with ticketmaster and couldnt get any tickets...it took like 10 minutes just to return that to me.

on another note, post here if you see of those eastern conference champs tshirts anywhere, the eye soldout last night so yeah

6/2/2006 12:15:47 PM

when i posted they hadn't sold out yet, because I checked on ticketmaster, and tickets for lower level came up, so why don't you stop spewing shit

6/2/2006 12:17:04 PM

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"Team with captain > team without captain"

Buffalo has two captains, I thought?

6/2/2006 12:23:56 PM

Drury and Briere are captians

6/2/2006 12:33:35 PM

give vanek time, staal looked shaky as a rookie at times too, he is a superstar in waiting

6/2/2006 12:45:55 PM

I just tried ticketmaster for every price division of ticket for Game 1

100, 140, 180, 200, 220, 240. Alll sold out. Only thing I found was at 280, Standing tickets on Deck SR1

I'm just telling you I checked each one.

6/2/2006 12:46:30 PM

thats true rooster and i hope your right, and Kainen the tickets are sold out now but when i first posted earlier they wern't

6/2/2006 12:48:56 PM

"CAN'T SELL OUT" clap clap clap clap "CAN'T SELL OUT"

6/2/2006 12:49:08 PM

you couldn't sell out he eastern conference finals, buffalo sold out every part of the playoffs and so did every other team in the playoffs

6/2/2006 12:52:49 PM

DAMN IT. Game 2 is the same result. All gone.

^ So fucking what. Buffalo draws a ton of Canadians up there at the border. Plus, they certainly are more used to hockey in new england.....NC is still very much about football and basketball..we have tons of options to distract, just give it time.

not to mention our tickets were 40% more expensive. So quit that bullshit.

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 12:56 PM. Reason : retard]

6/2/2006 12:54:28 PM

there all gone except for standing room only

6/2/2006 12:55:47 PM

BRETT HULL clap clap clap clapclapclap BRETT HULL

6/2/2006 12:56:19 PM

and for 280 i rather just watch on tv

6/2/2006 12:56:48 PM

^ I'll agree w/ the man on this

6/2/2006 12:58:28 PM

watch out for peca and roloson, they might get ya in the end

6/2/2006 1:00:46 PM

Only one way to find out. Damn Game5 is hosed too. I give up

6/2/2006 1:01:33 PM

kainen they were more expensive for season ticket holders but not for regular tickets, the nosebleed were a 100 per ticket in the ecf compared to the 70 here

6/2/2006 1:03:37 PM

but anyhow just watch it on tv, you get to see all the replays, you can go the bathroom without standing in line and you can drink all the beer you want without playing 8 dollars for each one

6/2/2006 1:04:51 PM

that may be. And I do think we have a lot of fans. I really do.

The problem is how DIEHARD fans are they? Willing to pay 100+ just to grace the doors? I bet we have a ton of fans like I am who can't afford it and are new to the hockey thing, but are really starting to love it. After putting on the ice successful seasons back to back w/ no lockouts are problems, I bet these good fans turn into more of a rabid, club fan willing to shell. I know I will next year.

With the lockout last year, and hockey still being somewhat alien to this area, is it hard to believe that the reason we can't sell out is becuase to be a hockey fan at the playoffs is FRICKING EXPENSIVE?

All for all this season our attendance and local tv ratings have been quite good and the best so far, so why all the flack. Because we don't compare to an area that has hockey out in the schools, colleges, historically, and climate wise?

It's just getting old and this area doesn't deserve it.

6/2/2006 1:08:21 PM

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"The problem is how DIEHARD fans are they? Willing to pay 100+ just to grace the doors?"

If I had $100 for an upper-deck ticket, I'd drop that caysh in a heartbeat.

6/2/2006 1:24:13 PM

I'd pay 100 in a heartbeat, IF i could afford it

6/2/2006 1:25:21 PM

i wish i knew how we compared to other teams. apparently that article in the N&O was completely wrong

6/2/2006 1:26:31 PM

^ well and those tickets usually get snagged, i mean it costs more than that for what's available.

6/2/2006 1:31:24 PM

http://www.edmontonoilers.com/tickets/singles.php

so our tickets are actually more expensive than Edmonton

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 1:35 PM. Reason : .]

6/2/2006 1:34:37 PM

but this is the playoffs there could only be 7 games in the finals, 100 dollars is reasonable, during the season yeah you could get tickets for 10 bucks but there were what like 41 home games, although you don't have to go to the games to support you team, just watch it at a bar or at home, its still fun and you do get to see more

6/2/2006 1:50:47 PM

^^upstairs yeah, but $390 for center ice seats! g'damn

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 1:52 PM. Reason : ^]

6/2/2006 1:51:55 PM

6/2/2006 1:53:25 PM

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"buffalo sold out every part of the playoffs and so did every other team in the playoffs"

if i remember correctly, NJ didn't sell out their games when they played the Canes (or it sure as hell didn't look like it from the empty seats).

6/2/2006 1:59:12 PM

again, a sellout and a full arena are 2 different things

6/2/2006 2:01:00 PM

our issue w. tickets is prices

if they were as low as they are for other small market teams, they would be gone in 14 mins

6/2/2006 2:04:14 PM

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"again, a sellout and a full arena are 2 different things"

Did a little research/math. Continental Airlines arena has a seating capacity of 19,040 for hockey.

Round 2, Game 3 attendance: 16862 (88.6% capacity)
Round 2, Game 4 attendance: 17585 (92.4% capacity)

6/2/2006 2:08:17 PM

^ok... those games still could have been sellouts.

6/2/2006 2:12:57 PM

Attendance is recorded as number of tickets sold, not the number of people who actually came in. So, they weren't sellouts.

6/2/2006 2:23:17 PM

The problem with a market like New Jersey is that it's oversaturated with hockey and intense rivalries, so the fact that they don't really sell out doesn't really come as a shock.

p.s. Fuck the Devils

6/2/2006 2:24:48 PM

whatever happens if we have a game to win the stanley cup in RALEIGH I want to be there. If not inside over at DAMONS and then come over to the tent party afterwards which will be about 10 times as crazy as last night and that was pretty good too.

6/2/2006 3:44:05 PM

are they all sold out now?

6/2/2006 4:46:16 PM

http://staal64.ytmnd.com/

I couldn't help myself.

6/2/2006 5:38:09 PM

nicely done!

6/2/2006 5:48:06 PM

that series was incredible...I expect the Cup Finals to be great as well.

I love hockey

6/2/2006 8:00:47 PM

Vanek has tons of goalscoring talent. He needs someone who can feed him on a regular basis to get the kinds of ridiculous goals he got as a Gopher.

Buffalo has two co-captains. They alternate who wears the C and the A. A co-captain is not a captain. When Briere was asked if he'd guarantee a win, he dodged the question completely. That's not leadership. Drury would make a good captain, IMO, but this co-captain stuff is laughable.

6/2/2006 8:08:17 PM

Hey mshaul


I GARUNDAMNTEEEE Carolina outsells Buffalo in the finals this year...



STFU

6/2/2006 8:08:36 PM

hey ncsu who the fuck cares, im here to talk hockey, though I do respond to your shit talking when provoked

6/2/2006 8:27:24 PM

i'm glad to see at least one team is holding down the RBC... well succeeding in the RBC Center

6/2/2006 8:30:51 PM

we may finally get another championship banner in the RBC now

6/2/2006 10:44:08 PM

we already have 2 on the season, division and now conference banner

6/2/2006 10:52:58 PM

You know when hockey becomes the most successful thing in Raleigh sports

it's a dark, dark time

*this is a knock on NCSU, not hockey...we need to get it together

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 11:57 PM. Reason : .]

6/2/2006 11:56:51 PM

^ well not really.. because NCSU can be as successful as possible for the base fans. But the Carolina Hurricanes are a regional team with a regional fan base. i.e. Tarheel, Blue Devil, Eagle, WolfPack, General Population , and etc. are going to be Carolina Hurricanes Fans... most of the like are not going to be NCSU fans. People will come from Greensboro to see the Canes.. not necessarily to see the Wolfpack.

basically the NCSU fan base is so much smaller than the Canes.

6/3/2006 12:03:16 AM