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Post by WavyGravy on Dec 15, 2010 19:22:27 GMT -5
www.thehockeynews.com/articles/37086-Thrashers-stage-fake-police-chase-with-mascot-in-effort-to-sell-tickets.htmlThrashers stage fake police chase with mascot in effort to sell tickets The Canadian Press 2010-12-15 18:55:00 DULUTH, Ga. - The attendance-challenged Atlanta Thrashers are getting desperate to sell tickets. The team staged a fake police chase with its mascot on Wednesday in an attempt to pique interest in the surging team, which has won 10 of 12 games but still ranks 28th in the NHL in fan support. "Thrash" was picked up by officers in suburban Gwinnett County after he supposedly stole a Zamboni from the team's training complex and took off down a busy highway. It was all just a publicity stunt. The team says Thrash will be released from custody as soon as 5,000 additional tickets are sold for the remaining five home games in December. Atlanta is averaging just 11,789 per game, a drop of more than 14 per cent from the same time a year ago.
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Post by selanne405 on Dec 15, 2010 20:21:14 GMT -5
Wow just wow. This is honestly the most pathetic thing I have ever seen.
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Post by trebor204 on Dec 15, 2010 20:43:52 GMT -5
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Post by crazycanuck on Dec 15, 2010 22:22:14 GMT -5
That's pretty funny actually!
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Post by razorsedge on Dec 15, 2010 22:55:35 GMT -5
LOL, kudos to the Thrasher organizational. Probably won't help much, but at least it was unique.
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Post by nosunbelt on Dec 16, 2010 0:43:23 GMT -5
Maybe Phoenix should stage a coyote-roadrunner .... ugh nevermind. Got less funny as I thought about it.
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Post by jetsnnordiquesfan on Dec 16, 2010 4:18:06 GMT -5
Lol they're so desesperate to get people to buy tickets that's for sure. It's kinda funny, though.
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Post by razorsedge on Dec 16, 2010 11:00:31 GMT -5
That's the difference between a real hockey market vs atlanta. If it was winnipeg, they would do it to raise money or food bank donations instead of for tickets. Thinking about it now, a stunt like this doesn't make sense for a team set to relocate to winnipeg.
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Post by subwayscoundrel on Dec 16, 2010 15:40:18 GMT -5
I would guess this is mostly an in game video, but could be wrong
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Post by M.C. Molineux on Dec 16, 2010 15:53:33 GMT -5
Funny comment posted in the G&M comments (maybe by someone here?):
April 2011 - the University student paid minimum wage to don the Atlanta Thrashers 'Thrash' mascot continues to linger in the Gwinnett County jail, having been 'arrested' in mid-December 2010. A club promotion to sell 5,000 tickets in December came up 4899 short. The mascot was conveniently forgotten (and unfortunately not missed) at Thrasher games to the end of the 2010-11 NHL season. "I missed my first and second semester exams along with Spring Break...please someone, post bail - the food in here is awful...".
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Post by dlegras on Dec 16, 2010 20:13:41 GMT -5
Lol its funny to see a franchise beg for support from local fans but hey at least the team is trying to do something different then ask for hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies. That might be next though  Honestly somebody should make a video instead of thrash stealing a zamboni he should be driving a huge semi truck with thrasher gear towards winnipeg. |
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Post by trebor204 on Dec 18, 2010 20:30:46 GMT -5
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Post by Comrade Fox on Dec 18, 2010 21:50:16 GMT -5
they just beat the crap out of the devils 7-1. wont help much though.
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Post by 22Neufeld28 on Dec 19, 2010 3:52:39 GMT -5
All I kept seeing when the reporter was behind the "Gwinnett"cop car.was the name Winnipeg Jets  I think the fake interview with the eyewitness says it all about the hockey market (who knows it could have real too  ) "I seen a big bird,riding a big green machine up the road" |
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Post by Comrade Fox on Dec 19, 2010 13:53:47 GMT -5
It succeeded. According to Twitter: nhl Thrash speaks! Find out what he has to say after well-publicized release from prison. bit.ly/fa1FnV #NHL |
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Post by blinky on Dec 19, 2010 23:57:23 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that one woman says "Trash" instead of "Thrash" "Trashers"... great fan support ya got there |
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) "I seen a big bird,riding a big green machine up the road"
