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Canucks fans on social media irate over cheap food offer
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
Martin MacMahon | Email news tips to martin.macmahon@corusent.com
1/13/2013

With the lockout done, the Vancouver Canucks will be selling single-game tickets for their abbreviated NHL season this week, and if you feel like feeding your pro hockey habit, it'll cost you at least $63.75 a pop to attend games at Rogers Arena.

The tickets go on sale at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

The first three games will feature cheap food and merchandise discounts, but some fans on twitter say that's not enough.

CKNW listeners have tweeted in concerns about long lineups due to the one-dollar grub, while others want the reduced food prices to stay season-long.

Still others say they're planning on boycotting the team altogether.

Here are some Tweets from CKNW listeners in reaction to the food and merchandise discounts touted by the hockey club:

just for opening weekend?#Cheap #OweTheFans

 

Damage Control much?

 

too little, too late.

 

that good deal should do that more often least once a mounth

 

that sucks! The Sens are giving away one free game to season ticket holders..

 

the tickets for the first 5 games should be half price too!@VanCanucks otherwise I won't be there for hotdogs pop and merchandise

 

That'll make it all better. #sad

 

well since half the season's over *eyeroll* how about those prices for the rest of the year?? Fans will pay 4 it in higher season fix

 

Still really frustrated by the lockout. Not going to #Canucksgames, so this doesn't affect me at all.

 

Would rather #Canucks charged full price and donated all the revenue to @CanuckPlace for a few games. They've been hurt by this.

 

too bad tickets are so expensive....can't afford it and won't go to a game this year

 

These discounts should be for the entire season.

 

chaos and long lineups to purchase food/merch = angry customers.

 

 

Two hour line ups !!!!

 

I’m never going to a Canucks game again.

 

Boycott.

 

 #emptyrink 

 

 

 

 

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  1. ChrisM_18 posted on 01/13/2013 12:45 PM
    And the seats will be sold out despite this shoddy treatmen

    The. Definition for sucker in the dictionary is. Canuck fan
    1. BieberStoner69 posted on 01/14/2013 06:00 PM
      @ChrisM_18 Exactly "DANCE, PUPPETS, DANCE"!!! LOL!!!
  2. bhappy posted on 01/13/2013 01:15 PM
    Another greedy selfish move, by a greedy selfish owner. He'll probably get to write it all off as well. The Worst thing I've seen is the OWNER Acqalini (sp) didn't even make the apology to the fans, it was the coach...well that is just insane...the coach didn't LOCKOUT the players, the OWNER did!
    It's not the players who screwed up the season. The Owners could have still negotiated while the season continued, there was no need to lock out the players and hurt the employment of thousands of people!
    I intend to boycott ROGERS arena from now on, not just hockey!
    Shame on the OWNER!!
  3. DavidSB posted on 01/13/2013 01:46 PM
    If you buy their tickets and go back you really are suckers Canucks fans
  4. ChrisH_7841 posted on 01/13/2013 03:43 PM
    What about the fans that do not attend games and just watch them on tv/radio ? What are they going to do for us?
    1. ChrisM_18 posted on 01/13/2013 06:29 PM
      @ChrisH_7841 Does the phrase Sweet Dick All ring a bell ?
  5. Ron_26 posted on 01/13/2013 03:59 PM
    With all the negative polls about the return of hockey I wonder, who cares?
  6. GaryH_14 posted on 01/13/2013 04:46 PM
    How about free Center Ice TV for those that can't go to games.
    That would benefit everyone, not just discounts on outrageously marked up merchandise which they would still make huge money on.
    Come on Canucks, you can do better than cheap food.
  7. AndreaK_5056 posted on 01/13/2013 06:09 PM
    Stupid Canucks fans, just bend over and let them keep giving it to you. Cheapest tickets $64?? $1 food, big freakin’ deal! You’re supposed to be teaching these overpaid prima donnas a lesson. But no…. let’s just line up, bend over and shell out our dollars to them all the while, kissing their feet.


    Idiots.
    1. ChrisM_18 posted on 01/13/2013 10:09 PM
      @AndreaK_5056 Well said!!
  8. tedw_5037 posted on 01/14/2013 02:45 AM
    Vancouver is bush league town....you'll never have the NBA or MLB
    1. hha posted on 01/14/2013 08:54 AM
      @tedw_5037 tedw_5037

      THE NBA!!!!!!!!!!!!! are you serious?

      We kicked that sorry ass out years ago. That ENTIRE league is but a thread from collapse.
      Great game (especially in B.C.) --- disgusting league.

      If your reference is due to a malignant malady known as "previously from Toronto", cure is rare -- go back.
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  9. hha posted on 01/14/2013 08:59 AM
    The sports shows were the big losers in this. I think they represent as much importance to the finacial well being of the teams as the ticket buyers. Their costs did not go away however as did the costs of the ticket buyers.

    Good sports personalities like BMac, Donny Taylor, The Moj, Dan Russell and Pratt always found a way to put something together. The other politically correct dainties suffered...I for one learned a lot from CBC morning radio.
    1. JimP_5079 posted on 01/14/2013 01:15 PM
      @hha My comment was intended for tedw I agree with you comment. I likely hit the wrong reply button. Good come though.
    2. commonsense posted on 01/14/2013 04:13 PM
      @hha You put Pratt in the same category as BMac, Taylor, Mog and Russell?

      Pratt is the biggest tool in sports broadcasting.
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  10. JimP_5079 posted on 01/14/2013 12:11 PM
    Hang onto your wallet because if the seats are full this half season you know the owners will laugh and up go the prices next season to pay for this raise these poor starving hockey jocks got so they could afford to raise their family's in the life style they are accustom too. You know if the consumers were not so stupid we can control the costs. Not only with this kind of thing but with lots of over priced goods and entertainment we consume and it would not take long. A few weeks of no shows and see what can happen to the prices. Unfortunately we just do not have the will power.
  11. HerbF posted on 01/14/2013 03:28 PM
    The fans should face with their backs to the canucks when they enter the ice, and not say a word for the first period. no clapping no whistles no boos.... nothing....
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