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2008 Wild Select-A-Seat


We attended the 2008 edition of the Minnesota Wild season ticket holder select-a-seat event at the Xcel Energy Center earlier this week.

The good news for the new owner: very few open seats this year. The upper ends were sold out (as usual) and the upper sides had only scattered single seats available. The club level had surprisingly few open seats (so much for the recession) and the only reasonable supply of seats were lower level ends and corners on the side the Wild shoot at once.

Some other notes:

  • The prospects were on the ice when we first arrived and were supposed to come up and sign autographs, but they still weren’t there by the time we left.
  • Suite #56 was open for inspection, which was fun to see, but I was disappointed to see that they removed the 23-inch Cinema displays, though.
  • While sitting in some seats on the club level, a very nervous gentleman purchased four of them ($12,300 – ouch).
  • Free ice cream and Zamboni pictures were nice, as were the 30-percent-off coupons to the Hockey Lodge.
  • My relatives kept their same seats, so I’ll wait and see if the Wild offer them the open single next to them for half price again.
  • The “discount” at the River Centre parking ramp wasn’t so special – $7 instead of $10. How about free for the people spending thousands of dollars?

More on the prospects soon…

Originally published by DK on July 12, 2008 at 5:19 pm in Hockey


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