Marc Brooks's dashboard

Let me get this right... you sell me a full season for the home Blues games, including 41 regular season games and FORCE me to buy the 3 preseason games (at full price, don't get me started) but the Blues only have 2 home preseason games for the 2009-2010 season because one of our "home" games is going to be played in Sweden.

Now a reasonable and sane organization would realize that you cannot sell me tickets to a game that will never be played. You can't sell me my seat for the game in Sweden because that game is already sold out.

Blues reps tell me that you're going to offer tickets to another game to replace that preseason game but those tickets won't be for my seats either. I buy season tickets, FULL season tickets, to guarantee that I get my seat for every game... if I didn't care, I would buy tickets the day of the game and save TONS of money every year.

NHL hockey season tickets are NOT mostly sold to corporate fat-cats. Most seats are sold to individuals that care deeply about our team, our fellow fans and OUR seats.

Any sane organization would realize what an insult this is to the entire fan-base and would simply drop that non-existant game from the package. Will the Blues be that smart, or will they continue to take these hard-working fans for granted?

While I realize that hockey is an expensive business to conduct, there is NO WAY that the level of skill, effort or results in the average preseason game justifies even charging half the normal price for a game. When you then stick your season-ticket holders with 3 games that they have NO CHOICE about purchasing at full price, you are insulting our efforts to support the team.