Here's a thought I had the other day. As seats begin to "go", remove seats from the student section and replace worn out seats with those. Replace seats in the student section with smaller seats and possibly even benches.
Now, before anyone gets upset that I'm screwing the students, bear with me. What I'm trying to do is finagle more students into their seating area.
Leather seats are nice and all, but you're at a hockey game to chear and have a blast, you don't need a leather seat for that. If I had to build a Ralph all over again, I doubt I'd have any of them, except maybe in suites or club seating.