{"id":435216,"date":"2023-05-09T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435216"},"modified":"2023-05-09T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T21:10:25","slug":"chicago-season-ticket-sales-surge-after-1st-pick","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chicago-season-ticket-sales-surge-after-1st-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago season-ticket sales surge after 1st pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the news that the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/chicago-blackhawks\/\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> will have the 1<sup>st<\/sup> overall pick in the upcoming NHL Draft and they can add Connor Bedard to their roster, everyone wants to get a season ticket for the next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago franchise sold 2.5 million dollars of tickets for the next campaign only 2 hours after the lottery took place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">$5.2 million: Revenue in season tickets sold by the Chicago Blackhawks in the first 12 hours after getting No. 1 pick, which will be Connor Bedard.<\/p>\n<p>$4.54 million: Maximum compensation, including salary, signing and performance bonuses, Bedard can be paid for the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darrenrovell\/status\/1655937462043303936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Connor is a heavy favorite to be the 1<sup>st<\/sup> pick in the 2023 NHL Draft in June. Experts say he is a generational talent as the Canadian notched 71 goals and earned 143 points in 57 matches in his native hockey league.<\/p>\n<p>He also was phenomenal at the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship as Bedard became part of history with his achievement for most points by a Canada member at the contest with 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the news that the Chicago Blackhawks will have the 1st overall pick in the upcoming NHL Draft and they can add Connor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435217,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17008,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17849,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Blackhawks fans want season tickets after the lottery.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435216"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435216"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}