It took just a few short days for Winnipeggers to show the NHL that they're serious about hockey.
The drive to sell 13,000 season tickets in advance of the league's board of governors' late-June meeting, where the sale of the Atlanta Thrashers to True North is expected to be approved, was an overwhelming success.
Season ticket and mini-pack holders of the Manitoba Moose, the city's outgoing American Hockey League team, were given first dibs and bought more than 7,000 tickets. When the sale was opened up to the general public, the remaining ducats sold out in just two minutes. (It took 15 minutes more to process them.)
The MTS Centre holds about 15,000 people. About 1,000 of those seats are in luxury boxes while the remainder will be sold on a game-by-game basis.
The joke around town is that the most popular pick-up line in bars is, "I've got season tickets."
from Western Investor July 2011
