{"id":16650,"date":"2009-01-09T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/thunderbird-ticket-sales-down-after-jan-3-opening-night\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T22:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T05:05:39","slug":"thunderbird-ticket-sales-down-after-jan-3-opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/thunderbird-ticket-sales-down-after-jan-3-opening-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird ticket sales down after Jan. 3 opening night"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a sold-out crowd of 6,125 attended the Seattle Thunderbirds inaugural hockey game Jan. 3 at the new ShoWare Center in Kent against Everett, attendance dropped to 3,265 the following night at their home game against Kamloops.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was disappointed in the walk-up crowd,\u201d said Rick Ronish, director of operations for the T-Birds. \u201cWe had a steady flow at the box office during the day, but then the weather changed and it started to snow. Maybe that put a little damper on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ronish expected a crowd of more than 4,000 for Friday\u2019s game against the Tri-City Americans.<\/p>\n

The crowd could be larger at the T-Birds\u2019 match Sunday against Prince George, compared to a week ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrdinarily, Sunday is a good family day with a 5 p.m. start,\u201d Ronish said.<\/p>\n

Ticket sales have picked up for groups of 20 or more for the remaining 23 home games, Ronish said.<\/p>\n

The T-birds have sold nearly 2,000 season tickets. Those remain on sale until the end of January.<\/p>\n

Prices for single games are $22 for most seats or $16 for adults and $12 for children in the arena\u2019s \u201cfamily zone,\u201d where no alcohol is allowed.<\/p>\n

The T-birds play six straight games at the ShoWare Center from Jan. 17-27.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

T-birds upcoming games<\/p>\n

Jan. 11\t \t5:05 p.m. \tPrince George Cougars \tShoWare Center<\/p>\n

Jan. 16\t \t7:35 p.m. \tat Everett Silvertips \tComcast Arena<\/p>\n

Jan. 17\t\t7:05 p.m. \tEverett Silvertips \tShoWare Center<\/p>\n

Jan. 18\t\t5:05 p.m. \tTri-City Americans \tShoWare Center<\/p>\n

Jan. 21\t\t7:05 p.m. \tKamloops Blazers \tShoWare Center<\/p>\n

Jan. 23\t \t7:35 p.m. \tSpokane Chiefs \t\tShoWare Center<\/p>\n

Jan. 24\t \t7:05 p.m. \tPortland Winter Hawks \tShoWare Center<\/p>\n

Jan. 27\t \t7:05 p.m. \tMedicine Hat Tigers \tShoWare Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a sold-out crowd of 6,125 attended the Seattle Thunderbirds inaugural hockey game Jan. 3 at the new ShoWare Center in Kent against Everett, attendance dropped to 3,265 the following night at their home game against Kamloops. \u201cI was disappointed in the walk-up crowd,\u201d said Rick Ronish, director of operations for the T-Birds. \u201cWe had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":2123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}