Four thousand fewer tickets than previous street parties are being offered to fans for tomorrow night's eventgetty images
Party organizers for the NHL Jets' Whiteout street parties have "reduced the number of tickets available" for tomorrow night's downtown event ahead of Game 5 of the Blues-Jets series, according to Carol Sanders of the WINNIPEG FREE PRESS. Only 11,000 tickets have been issued -- 4,000 fewer than previously allowed -- in an "attempt to control the size of the crowd at the party outside Bell MTS Place." Winnipeg police reported "incidents of public intoxication and fighting" at the C$5-per-ticket (all figures C) Whiteout street party on Friday ahead of Game 2. City police said Monday that they were "aware of several factors that could influence" the demeanor of the crowd, including tomorrow's temperatures expected to hit a high of 55 and the game being on the night "before a long weekend." Police "promised any disorderly partygoers would be ejected" from the event (WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, 4/17). Organizers said that the Whiteout events for Games 1 and 2, despite "chilly weather" and 8:30 pm CT starts, drew 8,500 and 11,500 fans respectively, each paying $5 and "raising more than $114,000 for the United Way for mental health, homelessness and addiction" (WINNIPEG SUN, 4/17).
