Albany ECAC ticket questions

Just a few questions for those Albany veterans out there:

1. When is the best time to buy tickets...i.e. what are the prospects of a sell-out/getting crappy seats? Even if one doesn't want to wait and make sure we make it to Albany.

2. What is the best way to make sure you're sitting with other Faithful? Or is there no real way to organize that?

3. Where is the best place to buy tickets? The Times Union Center website has a decent student price, but seems rather stubborn about not giving you a seat with a good view of the ice.

Thanks

I think the chances of a sellout for the ECACs are pretty close to zero. Wel maybe they'd sell out if the field were Cornell, Clarkson, RPI and Union. Or maybe SLU since I can't imagine Union bringing fans even if the game were in their backyard. But even then I doubt it.

As always you can buy tickets through the Cornell ticket office if we make it) to guarantee seats in the Cornell section. Otherwise, if Cornell is there the place will probably be swimming with Cornell fans. In the best of years 75+% of the rink will be wearing red. If Clarkson/SLU/RPI are there the percentages will be lower.

No answer on 3.

sah67
1. When is the best time to buy tickets...i.e. what are the prospects of a sell-out/getting crappy seats? Even if one doesn't want to wait and make sure we make it to Albany.

2. What is the best way to make sure you're sitting with other Faithful? Or is there no real way to organize that?

3. Where is the best place to buy tickets? The Times Union Center website has a decent student price, but seems rather stubborn about not giving you a seat with a good view of the ice.

1) Doesn't matter. If you're only going if we go, wait until we know if the team makes it or not. If you're going anyway, go ahead and buy them whenever. It will not sell out. I agree with Keith that if it was Cornell, Clarkson, SLU, and RPI, that'd be the best crowd we'd get, but even Cornell doesn't sell out our whole corner. I can't imagine it being an issue.

2) Buy through Cornell. If you're not in Ithaca, you can buy from them over the phone and pick up at the Albany box office (or at a Cornell table in the box office area, depending how they do it this year).

3) See 2

Last year I wasn't sure if I was going to make it, so I ended up driving to Albany and buying at the door that day (worked out fine). I asked for tickets in the Cornell "section" ( more of a "side/end", but you could pretty much sit wherever you want anyway. There is no way that place is coming close to a sell out.

The fact is that college hockey just isn's as big in the sports world as it is to us. That means that tournaments generally don't sell out unless you get the whole college hockey community interested (i.e. the Frozen Four) and even then tickets are generally not too hard to find. Some folks see this as a problem to be fixed. I see it as a very good thing.