Raiders ticket office preparing for another playoff run

“In the past as a season ticket holder you used to be able to buy additional seats for the playoffs, ” Scissons said.” But due to the success of the team over the last 24 months our season ticket base has grown so rapidly that we have to hold a lottery in order to try and figure out how many tickets we’ll be able to move in addition to just the season tickets.”

When the playoff tickets will go on sale to the general public is still not known at this point.

Scissons added last year’s playoffs set the mark in terms of attendance and is still fresh in everyone’s mind in how full the building was and how quickly tickets sold out.

“What we face right now in a building which holds 2,500 seats and an additional 750 standing room tickets is seats are at a premium,” he explained. “They’ve been at a premium pretty much all year from a game by game basis. Going into the playoffs what we’re facing is the fact the entire building will be close to sold out with playoff packages prior to tickets going on sale.”

So far, he said there has been a very good response from season ticket holders but due to the East Division being so tight they won’t know where they finish in the standings nor their opponent until further down the line.

“As we enter the final three weeks of the regular season here there’s a lot yet to be determined,” he said.

Voice of the Raiders Trevor Redden told paNOW following such an incredible year last year, where the Raiders were on top of the league for most of the season, there was some thought to the possibility of seeing some drop off in attendance. But that’s not the case.

“The attendance has actually been up, and I think there’s a bit of a follow up affect of last season where people got excited and bought season tickets,” Redden said. “Having a team that’s remained so competitive if you look at the year to date this year over last year it’s up by a very small percentage, but the daily attendance number is up this year over last year.”

He added this past weekend’s home game against Saskatoon was the first game this season that had a playoff type feel to it.

“The crowd was into it, it was a really heated game and I think you’re going to see more of that,” Redden said.

He said he’d been talking to the players about the buzz they feel, especially for those who were around last year.

“I ask them ‘what does that do for you?’ and they all just laugh and say ‘it’s unbelievable, the extra jolt that it gives the team’ they say there’s no place like it in the WHL.”

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by Ian Gustafson

Raiders ticket office preparing for another playoff run

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