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That’s a pretty professionally done video.
That hit at 1.39 is probably a clip though. Getting a bit low.
Who was in goal for that pile of fun? Pretty good effort to stop 24 shots, that many of them short handed.
"cowgirl":22ad0cun wrote:Didn’t see you there Chris?!
And No, I didn’t want to take you to bed!
[/quote:22ad0cun]This is the reason I stay well away from “your mother” comments.
Sooner or later their mother is going to turn up and you’re going to have to explain yourself.
"Chris":2m5ra8ym wrote:Thunder definitely had their moments tonight, but Stampede physically dominated them. I’m not sure if it’s ’cause Jens is all european and whatnot, but the Thunder just will not hit. Time and time again I saw thunder players back away from a perfectly legitimate hit, while the stampede went for every hit they could scrounge – legal or otherwise.
[/quote:2m5ra8ym]I thought that as well. There were several times where I wondered why the player didn’t finish the check. Noticeable that Stampede took those opportunities to do so.
Clay Caird. Played for the team last season but got injured and didn’t get to play much of the season.
Good game, Thunder played well. Sweet to see Tom score a nice goal. If Thunder can get it just up one more notch, tomorrow could be a hum dinger.
Horrendous crowd numbers. C’mon, everyone bring a friend along at 4pm tomorrow, I think Stampede supporters outnumbered Thunder supporters.
"Thundersbiggestfan":3oqabrtk wrote:i wouldnt consider 2-0 A stomping
[/quote:3oqabrtk]Do we have to explain this again?
"Azzy77":2381yn2r wrote:It would seem any other hockey player in Dunedin has no interest in helping. As the thunder have never been approached by volunteers. We are currently looking for some one to do music this weekend, let us know if you are interested.
[/quote:2381yn2r]That’s not true Aaron. Michael arranges volunteers for every Thunder game. The peewee manager rounds up people to help with pre-sold tickets and giveaways.
Yes but there are costs to the venue of holding an event – staff, security, cleaning, consumables, damage. Eden Park doesn’t hire out the rugby field in the middle for a couple of hundred bucks and then the All Blacks pocket all of ticket sales. The venue gets a cut.
"vpatrol":1j7qd6rc wrote:why does the rink require half? How about we pay them the $300 per hour ice hire and they can keep vending sales. That’s how nzihl works. Why would it be different for IB’s vs Aus. Plus that game would be an awesome way to get kids caring about competing for an IB’s spot in the future. Can’t put a price on that.
[/quote:1j7qd6rc]Because (at least in the instance of the upcoming NZ/Aus tests), the rink is taking care of the marketing etc costs.
Unlike a team practice, the ice isn’t the only thing they’re providing.
"Azzy77":uqgm71ye wrote:Otherwise we have to sit down and think how best to get people in the ground
[/quote:uqgm71ye]Telling them to come to the rink rather than ‘the ground’ might work
” title=”Smiley” />comps = complimentaries. Media, sponsors, volunteers. Players often get a couple of tickets to give to family/friends.
Stampede tickets are more than ours – $20 for adults. Ours are $10 for adults, $5 for children. NZ-Australia isn’t exactly top tier ice hockey, $30 is a lot to charge someone who knows nothing about ice hockey and thinks they’ll take their family along to try it out.
But whatever ticket price you charge, you won’t get all of it to fund the teams. The rink will keep a significant portion of the money wherever you hold it.
So if we had a double header and kept $10 (if tickets were $30/adult, $15/child, the rink kept half of all sales) on average from each ticket to fund both teams, in order to break even on a $15,000 cost you’d need to sell 750 tickets a game. Probably 800 spectators in the building.
I don’t know if either of the Auckland rinks can hold that many, but Queenstown and Christchurch can’t.
We broke that number for world champs for the last game against Ireland, but that was on the basis of a week of news stories in the paper every day, TV coverage, and a lot of people that travelled here from around New Zealand for the whole week.
