From: "John Beamish" 

Predator ticket prices can be found here:
http://www.nashvillepredators.com/tickets/seatchart.html

$17 up to $110 for a ticket!?!?!  If you had those prices in Toronto the
lineups to purchase them would stretch from Toronto to Nashville and back! 
Toronto ... out of the playoffs and the ticket prices for next season are
*rising* 5%.

I think it will be several years before the Preds need to fear moving. Drop
below 14,000 attendance and the clause is invoked.  There is no way on
earth that they won't make 14,000 the next season so you're back to a new
2-year cycle.  Then the clause is invoked again and it's a further year of
waiting!

On Sun, 27 May 2007 20:25:47 -0400, Glenn Meadows  wrote:

> The lease on the arena states that after 5 years, then if in 2 successive
> years the Preds average under 14,000, then the organization can pull a
> "bail" clause on the 30 year lease, and if they then fail to average
> 14,000
> in the next year, they can leave paying 18 million to the city.
>
> The problem is that there will be a fight over the "consecutive years"
> clause, since there was the 1 year lockout in the middle of the 2 years.
>
> Of coursed, the city attorney says that this year is the first year of
> "consecutive years", so they can't easily leave for at least
2 years, and
> only if over the next 2 years the average attendance is under 14,000 in
> both
> years.
>
> Yes, it's a current lack of corporate support that's hurting.
>

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