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The audio was completely up to the tour, I should know, our local crew was there at 6:00am to set it up. The sound system was fine. Anyone there could easily account that's all the openers were heard very clearly. When Dave hit the stage the one thing he didn't do that sometimes entertainers don't think of is he had to hold the microphone closer to his mouth. I was backstage during the show and I could easily hear the openers but while he was on stage I couldn't hear anything he said. Unfortunately the sound guy was probably doing everything he could but because the talent was not speaking loud enough or more importantly not holding the microphone close enough to his mouth the audio would have been quiet no matter what he did. I actually heard a couple times or so where there was feedback coming from the microphone because probably the sound guy was trying to increase the sensitivity of the microphone
 
Looking at WJC pricing:

Minnesota - $20USD to 120USD is what i've generally found with most in the $20-60 USD or $27-$82 CDN.

For the 2027 event here, no individual games are available as of yet, but packages broken down equal roughly $68 -$168 CDN, but with most in the $100-130 range.

*keep in mind that's package pricing; I suspect individual games will be a ~20-25% premium on top of that.
 
Bear in mind that hockey is almost a religion here in Canada, whereas hockey can barely keep up with football, basketball and college sports in the Great Satan. The Orange Idiot's tariffs and 51st State rhetoric isn't helping.
 
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A summary table of my personal recording of events at Rogers in 2025. I've grouped into: (1) Oilers games/viewing parties, (2) Oil Kings games, (3) concerts, and (4) other (e.g. CFR, Cirque du Solei, etc.). 161 total event days in 2025.

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I averaged 18k attendance per Oiler game, 6k for Oil Kings, 12k for concerts and 10k for other events and calculated a total of 2.022 million people coming downtown for an event at Rogers in 2025.
 
JNO1 said:
A summary table of my personal recording of events at Rogers in 2025. I've grouped into: (1) Oilers games/viewing parties, (2) Oil Kings games, (3) concerts, and (4) other (e.g. CFR, Cirque du Solei, etc.). 161 total event days in 2025.

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I averaged 18k attendance per Oiler game, 6k for Oil Kings, 12k for concerts and 10k for other events and calculated a total of 2.022 million people coming downtown for an event at Rogers in 2025.
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While your math is likely correct, it does need to be noted that that’s not 2.02 million discrete visitors.

As an example, of those 2.02 million, 1,116,000 people are there for the Oilers games but that’s not 1,116,000 unique individuals. My guess is that total is predominantly the same 12-15,000 people attending multiple games throughout the course of the season.

For comparison, approximately 13,000 people live downtown but no one says people living downtown generate 4,745,000 visits.

Likewise, approximately 70,000 people work downtown but no one says people working downtown generate 15,400,000 visits.

If they did however, imagine what downtown would look like if the city spent 2.35 times what they spend supporting Ice District on supporting residents or 7.2 times what they spend supporting Ice District on supporting downtown workers.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not being a Negative Nellie here. I was a strong and vocal advocate of a downtown arena and was involved in designing one for EIG before Katz bought the team but Ice District is still only one piece of our downtown.
 
kcantor said:
While your math is likely correct, it does need to be noted that that’s not 2.02 million discrete visitors.

As an example, of those 2.02 million, 1,116,000 people are there for the Oilers games but that’s not 1,116,000 unique individuals. My guess is that total is predominantly the same 12-15,000 people attending multiple games throughout the course of the season.

For comparison, approximately 13,000 people live downtown but no one says people living downtown generate 4,745,000 visits.

Likewise, approximately 70,000 people work downtown but no one says people working downtown generate 15,400,000 visits.

If they did however, imagine what downtown would look like if the city spent 2.35 times what they spend supporting Ice District on supporting residents or 7.2 times what they spend supporting Ice District on supporting downtown workers.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not being a Negative Nellie here. I was a strong and vocal advocate of a downtown arena and was involved in designing one for EIG before Katz bought the team but Ice District is still only one piece of our downtown.
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I have a more positive view of the arena, but at least so far, while it has helped sustain some restaurants and bars in the area, Ice District has not revitalized downtown as hoped.

Some of this was due to unexpected factors beyond our control, such as COVID and WFH, but we can't just rely on Rogers and entertainment for a vibrant downtown.

There are IMO, several other important parts to revitalizing downtown: public safety, attracting more decent or unique retail, attracting more business offices and attracting more residential.

They are the like legs of a chair, so if we only focus only on one or two, it will not work properly. We have to work on all of these together.
 
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