(submitted photo/Prince Albert Raiders)

By Nigel Maxwell

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The hottest ticket in town

Sep 17, 2019 | 3:23 PM

The walls at the Art Hauser Centre will shake a bit harder this season, with close to 2,000 season tickets sold so far.

This represents 500 more than last season, and the highest number in the past 10 seasons. The team’s business manager Mike Scissons said he attributes the increase in ticket sales to a lack of available tickets during the playoffs last season.

“We had 12 playoff games in the 2019 WHL playoffs and we all beared witness to the lineups of the people sleeping overnight, the internet crashing due to the people trying to get tickets, so I don’t think people wanted to take that risk again to be left out in the cold,” he said.

The 2019 WHL champions. (Facebook/Prince Albert Raiders)

The only other season in the past 10 years to come close to this year’s number was 2012-2013 (1,812) when there was the NHL lockout. Scissons said General Manager Curtis Hunt and Coach Marc Habscheid have done an incredible job turning the team around, but he added the team’s fan base has played a large role as well.

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“There’s 21 other teams in the Western Hockey League who envy what we have here in Prince Albert and that is the atmosphere in our building,” he said.

As of Tuesday afternoon, close to 2,600 tickets were sold for Friday’s home opener against the Saskatoon Blades. Prior to face off, four championship banners will be raised to the roof.

There are still some single tickets available.

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