What will be on the Wild Tickets this Season?

My boss bought some Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers tickets for a really good customer of ours and I saw the tickets on his desk and there was a big mug shot of Brett Favre on the ticket! I bet the Packers are regretting that decision! That led me to wonder what the Minnesota Wild tickets will look like this year…

The Wild have put together a few different themes in the past few years – they did the various hockey towns throughout the state (that was one of my favorites), they did season ticket holders (I didn’t make the list – boo hoo), they did random fans (or perhaps all the Wild front office friends and family), Xcel Energy Center shots (the jersey, the organ, the ice) – I wonder what the theme will be on this years ticket? You can sometimes tell by the layout of their website – but they haven’t really changed it up since last season. I hope it isn’t cartoony – I prefer actual pictures.

Minnesota Wild Preseason Tickets

The Minnesota Wild offered all Minnesota Wild Season Ticket Holders a presale opportunity to buy Minnesota Wild Tickets for the three preseason Wild home games before they go on sale to the general public. Historically, Minnesota Wild Tickets for preseason games are a tough sell. I am sure that this year will be the same. I wouldn't rush out and pay face value for Minnesota Wild Hockey Tickets to any of the three preseason games at the Xcel Energy Center because bargains can be had online.

Only 52 days left until the Minnesota Wild season opener against the Boston Bruins!!! See you at the "X."

Minnesota Wild Tickets Blog

I don’t write in this Wild tickets blog as often as I should, but I haven’t forgotten about it! Things are pretty quiet in the Minnesota Wild News department and I am sure most of you read other Wild hockey blogs for player information. One of my buddies writes on the SB Nation Minnesota Wild blog, Hockey Wilderness. It’s a pretty cool site and I am going to try and convince him to put a link over to my Wild Tickets blog once I get a few more posts on here or once the season gets going. Don’t forget about me!

Minnesota Wild vs. Detroit Red Wings

The 2008-2009 Minnesota Wild Schedule just came out and one game in particular stood out as the game that will have the HOTTEST Minnesota Wild Tickets. The Minnesota Wild plays the Detroit Red Wings on January 3, 2009. Historically speaking, the Wild games versus the red Wings have been big tickets. This year, not only did Detroit win the Stanley Cup but the game on January 3rd. is also a Saturday and Saturday Wild games are always a tough ticket. If you are interested in catching the Wild versus the Hossa lead Detroit Red Wings this year, buy your Wild NHL Tickets now because prices will definitely go up.

Wild Season Ticket Holder Event

The Minnesota Wild Season Ticket holder select a seat event is the beginning of July. The event allows Wild season ticket holders the opportunity to upgrade their seats, if available. Ticket holders are assigned a time slot to enter the Xcel Energy Center and look around at open seats. If you want to add seats or change seats, you go and sit in those seats and one of the ticket sales representative will come and help you change your seat location. There are literally pieces of paper taped to seats, you may think it is chaos, but it is actually well organized system.

Minnesota Wild Season Ticket Waiting List Generates Income

The Minnesota Wild have reported that they have a 7,500-person waiting list for Wild season tickets. Wow! That is a lot of hockey fans waiting for tickets. If you figure the Wild gets a $100 annual fee from all of these people that means the Wild collects $750,000 every year. I realize that the money is not pure profit because the money paid gets applied to your season ticket balance after you make your seat selection (perhaps after years on the waiting list.) But the interest that the Minnesota Wild earns off of those waiting list fans surely adds up and if you add it up over the past seven years, I am guessing it would be enough to pay a salary or two. I wonder what the Minnesota Wild does with that ticket slush fund? What I wouldn’t do to be an NHL team accountant!

Minnesota Wild raise season ticket prices

Just as expected, the Minnesota Wild raised season ticket prices. The new cost of a Minnesota Wild Season ticket is:

Lower Level, side of arena $86 (was $82 – increase of 5%)
Lower Level, corner of arena $75 (was $71 – increase of 6%)
Lower Level, behind the net $65 (was $60 – increase of 8%)
Upper Level, side of arena $38 (was $35 – increase of 9%)
Upper Level, behind the net $18 (was $16 – increase of 12.5%)

The increase of between 5 and 10 percent was what most Minnesota Wild fans expected and was what we predicted on our Wild tickets blog poll.

Interestingly enough, Club-level seats will stay at $85 for the side sections of the Xcel Energy Center and $75 for the end sections behind the nets. The 2008-09 season will be the final season of a three year term for Club level ticket holders so you can bet those seats will go up in the 2009-10 Wild season.

Single-game ticket prices will be announced later so check back often!