Tereza Tomíčková at the Czech Business Weekly says that the NHL opener in Prague will be less attractive without hometown hero Jaromir Jagr...Although his image has been fading over the past season, he has been an undisputed hero for home fans.
Česká sportovní, the organizer of the NHL season openers in Prague in October, worked hard to bring over the New York Rangers. They did so despite it being the most expensive option for them.
“The Rangers have got tremendous Czech appeal as there are a handful of Czech players and mostly [because of] Jágr,” said the company's general manager Miroslav Černošek.
Indeed, the two games between New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning were sold out within hours after the tickets were put in sale last spring. Jagr’s departure caused a blow to Česká sportovní. Karel Tejkal, spokesman of Česká sportovní, admitted that some people could return their tickets. “However, we don’t expect that more than a few dozen tickets will be returned,” he said.
...the Rangers organization must be ruing the day they agreed to participate in this fiasco.
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