from Stu Cowan of the Montreal Gazette,
Canadiens season-ticket holders received their bills this week for the 2015-16 National Hockey League season and fans who sit in the nosebleed blue section have reason to be upset. Those tickets have suddenly gone up 24 per cent in price.
“I am really pissed off … I have to be honest,” one longtime season-ticket holder told the Montreal Gazette on Wednesday after learning his pair of tickets in the blues (located four rows from the roof) will cost $4,002.77 this season, up from $3,227.87 last year.
“If you do the math, it’s 24 per cent … that’s insane,” added the season-ticket holder, who asked that his name not be used for fear of repercussions from the club. “Gasoline stations don’t put up their price 24 per cent in one shot.
“They don’t even say anything to us … they just send the bill out,” he added. “They should be embarrassed by that and I’m a huge Habs fan. I’m really, really mad at this. They could have at least sent out a letter saying due to this and that we had to put up the cost. But 24 per cent? They nailed us big time.”
There will also be a significant raise in ticket prices for the other two sections in the upper bowl of the Bell Centre, with grey seats going up about 20 per cent and whites 10 per cent.
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