This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite went up against an NHL playoff game between the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks. The event was held in Edmonton, so AEW had to deal with the competition in terms of the ratings from the game and in the city.
WrestleTix, which does a great job of tracking ticket sales for all pro wrestling events, reported the show had sold 4,096 tickets with just a little over 100 tickets available as of Wednesday morning.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer Meltzer talked about how there was concern that fans may have left Dynamite early to watch the hockey game ahead of the show. While the game is not in Edmonton, Meltzer cited on Monday’s WOR that there was a sizable event that had 20,000 people slated to attend to support the Oilers on Wednesday night.
“They did okay, the crowd…..because there was a lot of concern about the crowd leaving because of the hockey game. And a lot of people left right at whatever time it was. I think they’re Mountain Time, so it would have been eight o’clock. A lot of people left at eight o’clock. You know, they didn’t stay for the Ring of Honor stuff. But they did stay like I was told, like, people did not leave. They wanted to see who…..because the last thing on the show was the announcement of who the Team AEW was and people did stay for that. The only reshot people all over that building in Edmonton Oilers jerseys. They were everywhere. The other, you know, because they were playing Vancouver. And when they brought up the show in Vancouver, and that, like Kyle O’Reilly talked about wrestling in Vancouver. That was probably the most boos it was you couldn’t yet tell other than Don Callis. That’s probably the most boos because of the fact that they’re playing Vancouver in the playoffs right now in Edmonton is a major hockey city,” Meltzer stated.
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