"Sales to this event will be restricted to residents of bordering states," with residency based on credit-card address. "Orders by residents outside of this area will be canceled without notice and refunds given."This kind of trend started when Ted Leonsis restricted Penguins fans buying tickets to a series against the Capitals. However, that was because of the history these two teams have and the fact that Penguins fans used to come in droves to watch these match-ups. With a rivalry like that, I can understand the reason.
Even though there is no recent memory rivalry, I can still understand what the Hurricanes are trying to do out of this. Now, the pressure is on those fans in North Cacka-lacka (as the kids say) to swoop in and get those tickets. If the Canes restrict the sale of the tickets to those in Western New York and people don't show up, then that looks bad on the Canes. However, it could be a success if the RBC Center is rocking full of Canes supporters.
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Not so sure this has as much to do with the Hurricanes banning Sabres fans as it does with protecting themselves from selling tickets above face value. North Carolina has a law that limits scalping to $3.00 over face value. In the 02 Finals, we had tons of people swooping in from all over to pick up tickets and sell at huge profits.
I wish it had as much to do with banning tickets to opposing fans, as Buffalo papers would lead us to believe. Unfortunately, though, if they did their homework and looked at how TO overran the RBC in the 02 ECF, they'd see this really isn't true. We had thousands of Leafs fans down here.
It just ups the gamesmanship, for sure; but it's kind of a misnomer saying that TO overran the RBC. TO fans are all over the place and could overrun any building in the NHL.
Agreed! It added something special to that round, that's for sure. Of course, we won the round. Not sure if I'd say that if the tables were turned! (-:
Plus I don't think Kormanos is the smart software guy that Leo is (wow, never thought I'd admit that!) in devising a way to block out of staters. (-;
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