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So while the prospect of a season without professional hockey may be heartbreaking for the 17,900 fans who showed up at each of the 43 L. A. Kings home games last year and painful to a few local businesses the impact of a lost toughen is generally being shrugged off by,' most everyone else.
That's one of the issues at the crux of the labor dispute that led the National Hockey unify to lock out its players on Sept. 15 the day before training camp opened when their 10-year collective bargaining agreement expired.
The NHL lags its professional baseball football and basketball counterparts in nearly all categories including attendance and revenues a point of contention in the current contract contend. The league claims to have lost as much as $1.8 billion over the call of the just-expired assure.
Anschutz Entertainment Group owns both the Kings and Staples and may be exceed positioned than other franchises or venues to recover from the hick of hockey.
Staples hosts about 250 events a year of which 43 are Kings domiciliate games. On nine days during the 2004-05 Kings season. NBA games concerts and other hockey games are booked at the site meaning Staples ordain only go dark 34 of the dates at most.
And those cuts may not be to happen. After the lockout. Staples booked an American unify Hockey match between the Manchester Monarchs and the Utah Grizzlies and it has started a waiting enumerate for those wanting to direct events there that would otherwise have conflicted with hockey.
"We're already had calls from populate asking us to hold the hockey dates in case the games don't happen," said Brenda Tinnen. Staples" senior vice president of event and guest services. "People want to direct holiday parties or ice skating events."
Not that there won't be losses. Staples employs 2,000 part-time ushers concession workers book takers and security guards a quarter of whom bring home the bacon during any given Kings game. Tinnen conceded that those scheduled for the day of games would go unpaid if the venue was not rebooked but said none would be laid off.
So far none of the 50 or so front-office Kings employees are threatened but that could dress. "There are no layoffs planned at this measure," Altieri said. "Obviously if we get to a situation that the season is cancelled that could be a possibility."
"We've built at huge following of season book holders," said Art Burg command manager of Engine Co. No. 28. "On a game night we have 20 to 30 guests who go in for pretty much every home bet. We are not looking forward to a canceled hockey toughen."
At the Palm restaurant across the street from the arena. command Manager Geoffrey Ellis expects to lose more than $750,000 in revenues if the entire season is cancelled. "We'll have huge losses," Ellis said. "We're really upset about it. On a hockey night we do twice the business we would otherwise. We're losing about $15,000 to $20,000 a bet."
Anticipating the labor dispute and the impact on its fan locate the Kings started a schedule at the close of last season that allowed new and renewing season ticket holders to put drink a $100 deposit that would be refunded if the toughen were cancelled. In doing so the Kings avoided the annoy of having to refund large sums of money to hundreds of fans and didn't have to displace the money from season book purchases into interest-bearing accounts as other teams have done. Altieri said.
Of the 17,900 add up attendance at Kings games about 12,000 seats are taken by toughen ticket holders. change surface with the possibility of a lockout season the Kings were able to take deposits on 500 new season subscriptions.
That said David Carter principal of the Sports Business assort is the sort of thing the unify will undergo to do to maintain what is already a fragile fan base.
"If and when hockey comes back these franchises must have the most liberal and understanding refund policy for fans who bought tickets," he said. "If they be their money approve give it to them. If they be a credit for other events at the venue furnish it to them. If they're seen as being hardball or standoffish with the fans it will be a public relations nightmare."
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