The Whig-Standard sprung into action after that truly terrible turnout for the Petes game on Sunday.
The city has banked on collecting a $1.50 surcharge from every hockey ticket sold and has budgeted for 3,500 fans at each game, on average. Sunday’s poor showing cost the city $1,800 in lost ticket surcharges alone.
When cities open modern entertainment centres, attendance at sporting events that have moved out of older facilities typically surge, but the surge usually lasts longer than one game.
You don’t say. The story goes on to say that “the city’s business plan requires the facility to produce roughly $1 million a year in profit” and that if it falls short, taxes will have be to hiked.
Does anyone believe there’s a possibility the city might start putting pressure on Doug Springer to improve his operation, or sell it to someone who will? People haved voted with their feet for the past 10 years going to fewer and fewer Frontenacs games because they can’t stand the owner; maybe city council is going to start listening.
Sell The Fronts, Springer 
February 29, 2008 at 9:52 am
This is the fastest route to have that team leveraged out of Springers control. If they continue to show dismal numbers in the last stretch serious alarm bells will be sounded.
Just wait until Council meets to inform the Tax Payers of Kingston we are going to be carrying the load for a while.
On the Noof forum there is already a huge discussion going on about the tickets charges to get in. Many have said they are not returning after being dinged 22 to 23 bucks a ticket.
This is going to get real ugly faster than we think. Mav and Springer do not fit the mold of the new type of owners around the league.
They are running a team like 1985 in a time 23 years later.