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How did the lockout impact ticket sales? Rick Horrow on the Blackhawks, Hurricanes and Panthers.
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-- fox sports news analyst Rick -- handicapping the business and news issues after the puck drops for the first weekend. The good the bad and the ugly. First of all the good. You know most he says he hits during the lockout Chicago Blackhawks on the other hand actually saw other season ticket waiting list increase spent nearly -- The teams struggle to draw fans earlier in the decade and they led the NHL -- per game attendance. For four consecutive. -- -- The bad Carolina Hurricanes lost 7% of this season ticket base during the locked out from fans demanding refunds. As a result lost revenues. President Jim Rutherford said the team might have been increased ticket prices. Over the next few years -- go over well. And then finally the all believed it might turn it hosts. The Florida Panthers offering a variety of promotions as a way to lure fans back after the lockout claimed 40% of the NHL season as we know. Among the promotion is -- seventh man campaign honoring their season tickets starting at seven bucks. Plus a free Panthers Jersey or hockey come back to a sun belt city so I had. At the playoffs for a last year in the last ten years before that whose captaincy for fox sports. I'm Rick --