The ticket office has evidently been able to get their grubby mitts on some extra tickets which will go on sale today at noon on a 1st come, 1st serve basis. The pepband was told this at 9:50 this morning, so not certain at all how widespread the knowledge is, but if people are looking for that one or two extra tickets at the last minute...
I'm really amused that other teams didn't manage to sell out their allotments yet ours went in a heartbeat. Yeah, I know, Cornell closer. That's why I'm about to hop in a car and drive the same distance that a UNH fan would have to drive. No excuses! This is the national championship! Sad..... That's why we're the Faithful....
-John
Our ticket allotment was sold to season ticket holders only, generally those located in Ithaca, which is about 6 hours closer to Buffalo than UNH's fanbase. You may be driving 8 hours, but you're not a student (potentially with limited time or financial resources) at UNH. Just because UNH might not have sold out its allotment of tickets doesn't mean UNH won't be well-represented in the stands. Their fans tend to travel en masse.
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Our ticket allotment was sold to season ticket holders only, generally those located in Ithaca, which is about 6 hours closer to Buffalo than UNH's fanbase. You may be driving 8 hours, but you're not a student (potentially with limited time or financial resources) at UNH. Just because UNH might not have sold out its allotment of tickets doesn't mean UNH won't be well-represented in the stands. Their fans tend to travel en masse.
true -- however, we were allotted somewhere on the order of 100 tickets, after hockey families and all the "big guys" got their hands on theirs. i would assume this is the same for the other four teams.
that said, i would argue that in providence (a 6-hour trek) we were represented by at LEAST 100 student fans (not including the family and boston-area alums), and would have MANY MORE if the frozen four (instead of "only" regionals) were to be held there.
my point being i'd have to agree with John B -- yes, 2-3 hours is a lot less than 8 hours, but as unh is a school with a fanbase purportedly similar to ours, i'm surprised that they weren't able to sell their allotment of tickets. i know we would have, even given their driving situation.
You also have to remember that most of UNH's games are within 2-3 hours driving distance, while we could be driving for 6 or more hours depending on location and weather condition. There are also people on this board who regularly make 6 hour drives during the regular season (and I'm not even talking about myself). So 6-8 hours, whatever, it's another hockey weekend!
So how do we know that these "extra tickets" are from UNH? Who said UNH didn't sell out their allotment? Maybe I'm missing something...
Because they know they are going to lose and don't even want to bother driving the 8 hours.:-D