How Las Vegas fans will select their NHL seats

One of the most frustrating things in life: Buying an airline ticket, going to that page where you select your seat and discovering that the only one left is Row 35 with the back that doesn’t recline next to the toilet.

One of the greatest things in life: Buying an airline ticket, going to that page where you select your seat and seeing literally every option available to you: aisles, windows, exit rows, the chance to be close to that first class curtain!

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We imagine that’s the feeling Las Vegas fans are going to feel when, on Monday, the season-ticket holders get their chance to pick their seats in the new arena, for the first season of Vegas NHL hockey.

It’s like being the first chip to dip into the tub of hummus at a party!

Here’s how it works. From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Fans have been mailed a brochure and video on the process. Each season ticket-holder will be assigned an access code and a specific time to select seats. Those with the longest commitment for the most expensive seats get to select first. Those who chose the least expensive option for the shortest time period (one year) will pick last.

Pollock estimates at least 90 percent of the 16,000 will fulfill their commitment. Some have had their money tied up since Feb. 10, 2015, the day the organization first accepted season ticket deposits. The goal then was to get 10,000 deposits. Now there’s a waiting list as the team capped deposits at 16,000.

That’s really outstanding. When this Vegas hype started, the general feeling was that the NHL was going to have to hard-sell it to the owners. But give owner Bill Foley credit: The season-ticket drive, and getting so many commitments outside of the hotel/casino industry, pretty much bowled over everyone that was suspicious of the market.

Every fan that buys two season-ticket seats qualifies for a Las Vegas team jersey. The team promises that it will “arrive in time for opening night in October 2017,” which is when presumably they’ll settle on a name.

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Greg Wyshynski is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter. His book, TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE PUCK, is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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