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!

Minnesota Wild Ticket Prices

I read in the paper that the Minnesota Wild is expected to announce new Minnesota Wild ticket prices in the next week or so. Check back to this Minnesota Wild Ticket blog for the latest changes! Based on my ticket prices poll, it looks like most people are guessing between 6% and 10%. That would put an upper level side ticket at around $48. The Wild ticket prices have went up each year, let’s just hope they don’t gouge us for too much money – it’s not like the Wild are Stanley Cup Champions or anything

Minnesota Wild Season Over

I bet the girls over at Ticket King St Paul are pretty upset that the Minnesota Wild didn’t get to game 7 in the NHL playoffs. I am sure they had to issue some refunds to very disappointed Minnesota Wild fans. The girls even have a blog, here is a shameless plug Ticket King St Paul blog – please return the favor!

Wild Playoff Games

One of my friends heard I had a Minnesota Wild blog and she asked if she could join in on the blog. I told her to send me a "post" about her game and Wild ticket buying expereince. If anyone else wants to send me something to post, feel free! Leave the post in the comments and I will move the best ones to the front page. This is what my friend sent:

I went to my first Wild Playoff game . As my first year as a hockey fan I had decided that if the Wild make it to the playoffs I MUST attend a game. Since I don’t have season tickets, and Ticketmaster was sold out ... AS USUAL! I used Ticket King to get my seats. I had never used a ticket broker before and was a little apprehensive. I ordered my seats over the internet (www.ticketkingonline.com), 104 row 5 and they were amazing. The price was definitely worth it. The game was really exciting, I love being close to the ice. We had a lot of fun heckling the Avalanche players as they went in and out of the penalty box. There was a lot of comradery in our section. The best part was seeing the players in person, James Sheppard in particular. The first period started out strong, the Wild were very aggressive and spent a lot of time at the Avalanche goal, which was pretty cool. We suffered a disappointing loss but the game was really fun none the less. I would definitely use Ticket King again to get amazing seats for Wild Games or any other event in the Twin Cities.

Fluctuating Minnesota Wild Ticket Market

I periodically checked what my favorite local Minnesota Ticket Brokers were charging for the April 17Th. Minnesota Wild Playoff Tickets yesterday and every time that I checked throughout the day, the Wild Ticket prices seemed to go up and the availability appeared to go down. After the demoralizing loss last night, it appears as though prices on Minnesota Wild Tickets for the NHL Playoffs have been reduced by about $20-$30/Ticket. I assume that that trend will continue until the Minnesota Wild Fans realize that the series is tied 2-2 and that this Thursday's game is BIG. GO WILD!!!