Messy plans in place to refund fans for game tickets!

If the NHL does resume its 2019-20 season, it will very likely be in empty arenas and while it has to find a way to make that happen, the league is also forced to find a solution to get money back in the pockets of fans who had already purchased tickets for the remaining games. 

This seems to be so complicated, that the league has announced, per TSN’s Frank Seravalli, that teams will have to take care of this aspect individually. 

“At this point the NHL is leaving it up to individual clubs to decide. But the point being that all clubs are currently working through a process to begin coming up with plans for fans to refund money. The large majority of teams would like to try and roll that money from this season into next year’s ticket plans. 

“But certainly teams like the New Jersey Devils have come out and already begun to offer refunds and incentives - if you renew your package for next season or roll that money forward [they] will be donating tickets to frontline workers to use next season. 

“Teams like the Philadelphia Flyers, you have to ask for a refund instead of a credit if you’d like it. And the Canadian clubs of course are working through their own process. The Edmonton Oilers hope to formalize their plans next week. And when you’re dealing with as many as seven home dates that could be unplayable at this point, you begin to start to realize the revenue that the NHL and these teams are losing. We’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in gates, concessions, merchandise and parking for these games that if they aren’t played, certainly if they are played there’s not going to be fans in the building and you begin to understand just how big this pile of money is.”

The advice we can give you is that you should make sure you can get your money back if you had purchase tickets for games left on the 2019-20 calendar. We hope you have no problem getting an answer on what your favourite team’s plan is for refunding fans.