NHL Winter Classic Ticket Official Ticket Information

by Al Yellon on Nov 3, 2008 6:38 PM CST in Chicago Cubs News

If you want to go to the Winter Classic at Wrigley Field on January 1, and you're not a Blackhawks season ticket holder, nor a member of the Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois, which will have some tickets allocated to members (no, you can't join now, you had to be a member by October 15) in a special drawing, here's what you are going to have to do:

A general public random drawing will be held to determine who will have an opportunity to purchase the remaining tickets with a limited number of tickets set aside for the community ticket initiative described below. Fan registration for the random drawing will be conducted through the Chicago Blackhawks' official website beginning on or about Noon ET/11 a.m. CT, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, through on or about 11:59 a.m. ET/10:59 a.m. CT, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Registrations received after the deadline will not be accepted. There is no fee to register. Limit one entry per person. Each registrant selected will have an opportunity to purchase a limited number of tickets.

Good luck!

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I think that would be a heck of a lot of fun

Though not worth a trip to Chicago for me.

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by Brett Taylor on Nov 3, 2008 7:36 PM CST reply actions

No love for the Cubs season ticket

holders?

Dallas Green!

by SonnyJ9 on Nov 3, 2008 8:46 PM CST reply actions

Apparently not.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Nov 4, 2008 3:19 AM CST up reply actions

This is a Blackhawk game, not a Cubs game

and there simply isn’t enough seats to even consider Cub ticket holders. How’d they do that anyway? Have drawings within the ST holders?

It’s too bad Wrigley doesn’t seat 60k+ plus like Soldier Field.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Nov 4, 2008 7:03 AM CST up reply actions

They had a Cub season ticket holder lottery...

… for the Police concert.

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by Al Yellon on Nov 4, 2008 7:48 AM CST up reply actions

Here's an update on this...

… from today’s Sun-Times that absolutely astounds me:

Those selected in the general-public drawing can purchase one ticket. Ticket prices, announced previously, range from $75 to $325.

So let me get this straight. If you win the random drawing, you can get a ticket for yourself? You have to go alone? How ridiculous is that?

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Nov 4, 2008 7:51 AM CST reply actions

That can't be right, can it?

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by derv on Nov 4, 2008 9:24 AM CST up reply actions

It doesn't seem right.

I can see a two-ticket limit, but one? That’s absurd.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Nov 4, 2008 9:36 AM CST up reply actions

Also...

… the original link, as posted above, says that anyone who wins the lottery will get to buy “a limited number of tickets” — plural. So my guess is, today’s Sun-Times link is wrong.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Nov 4, 2008 9:45 AM CST up reply actions

The only thing I can think of

is that they’re trying to cut out scalpers. I’ll register for the tickets, but I won’t be too upset if I don’t get picked. New Year’s day is for college football anyway.

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by Mordecai on Nov 4, 2008 9:40 AM CST up reply actions

I think the tickets...

… are priced too high for scalpers to want them, anyway. One ticket? Ugh.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Nov 4, 2008 9:43 AM CST up reply actions

Probably only the $75 dollar tickets will have value to the scalpers

I wonder if you did win the lottery, would you get to pick which price level you wanted. Does anybody know how much last years tickets in Buffalo went for?

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by Mordecai on Nov 4, 2008 9:49 AM CST up reply actions

Some of the $75 tickets would have scalper value.

But some of them will be really bad seats (back rows of the lower deck, where it will be hard to see the rink).

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Nov 4, 2008 10:03 AM CST up reply actions

Or bleacher seats

if they’re going to be GA’s like Cub regular season games. If it’s like Cub playoffs where section, row and seat numbers are assigned, then I would agree the one ticket limit is very anti-scalper.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on Nov 4, 2008 11:35 AM CST up reply actions