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Quote from: imafrshmnEven though I love ECAC Hockey and would not want to change the conference (except maybe sending Q to HE), it's kind of bothersome how small-time this league looks in the postseason compared to HE and B1G. In football we have seen the B1G and SEC schools claiming that top tier for themselves and it seems like a similar thing is evolving in hockey. HE and B1G conference final fours are very well attended, and also offer much more and better media content. I guess there's not too much that can be done realistically. Lake Placid is still probably the best host for the ECAC. I guess we should be grateful that Lynah is still relatively well attended.

Reported attendance for yesterday's semifinals were both given as 4015. If had to guess based on appearances, it was something like 2500 for SLU-Q and 2000 for CU-Dc with something like 500 watching both. With the snowstorm coming in, gonna be tough to bump up the numbers much for the final unless SLU inspired more folks to take a trip. 3000 would be a good number for today all things considered.

The 4,015 was for the Friday session. They don't combine the 2 games together to get that figure. When you scan your ticket you're counted for both, whether you actually are there or not. There were definitely more people there for the first game though. Was pretty obvious. St. Lawrence had a very good turnout, as expected. Cornell did as well. I actually think there were more Dartmouth fans there than Q, but neither brought much for fans. Should be a great game tonight!

Quote from: billhowardI got tickets in the Quinnipiac section, section 24, kittycorner across from the Cornell section (11), because it has the most seats up high, it is the end Cornell attacks period 1 and 3, and in part because I love the irony of a school's broadcast journalism school being named (in part) to honor Ed McMahon (think Jimmy Kimmel's Guillermo). Most of the Q partisans will have decamped to watering holes along Main Street. The St. Lawrence section in the corner near Q, have fewer seats left.

Virtually every seat on the sides not corners is shown as being taken as of Wednesday. That's fabulous for LP tourism and their economy. If it's accurate. Last year's Friday night session drew 3533, half full, and the championship game drew about 1500.

The championship game attendance last year was actually 3,839.

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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Just get into the rink, and figure it out from there.

This.  The weekend is going to be 90% Q and Cornell fans.  The Q fans are going to leave after their game to either celebrate or slink back to Toilet-on-the-Connecticut.

We will have a half empty building to ourselves.

Advice: if you come without tickets get there early because LP has yet to get their shit together at the walkup office, and the lines get long. You'll get in but you don't want to miss the whole first period.

Curious, doesn't SLU travel well?  Such a short drive?  I would hope they would. Can't wait for Friday night! LGR!!

if everyone in canton goes, they could fill as many as two sections

You're joking right? You all do realize that the 2 biggest draws in Lake Placid always have been SLU and Clarkson? It's actually not even close. I read the comment the other day about the "90% Q and Cornell fans" and chuckled. It's only an hour and a half from Canton to Lake Placid and, every time we play there, roughly half of the attendees are SLU fans. So, just letting you know, yes there will be plenty of SLU fans there.

This is simply not true.  I've been to every Lake Placid ECACs and the SLU presence is never significant.  They are great fans and they travel well, but their pool is just too small.  Every SLU fan is an outstanding fan, and Canton gives it everything they have, and I have spent many an evening and many a beer hanging out with them, but they do not have numbers.

Heavy: Cornell, Clarkson, extremely annoyingly Quinnipiac, once upon a time Vermont

Medium: Union, RPI

Small: Colgate, St. Lawrence, Dartmouth

Nearly Zero: Brown, Princeton, Yale even when they were good, Harvard

I really don't mean to be rude, but if you actually think that Quinnipiac has a heavy travel presence in Lake Placid and that Union or RPI bring more fans than SLU then you just plain and simply do not know what you are talking about. I've been going to each and every ECAC tournament since the first go around in Lake Placid back in the 90's, the Atlantic City days, the Albany days etc and SLU and Clarkson and Cornell are the big draws to Lake Placid. Always have been. SLU has made it twice to Lake Placid (since its return) back in 2015 and 2016 and it was partisan, significantly partisan SLU fans compared to the other teams. There were even articles in the local papers commenting on "the significantly partisan SLU turnout" at the time. When SLU/Clarkson met in the Championship game back in 1999 it was a complete sellout (8,200) and about a 50/50 split between fans. It's always been this way and it's pretty much common knowledge (or so I thought it was) that the North Country teams are the big draws for Placid. That's why there have been numerous non-conference games played between SLU and Clarkson at Lake Placid. Not SLU or Clarkson vs Quinnipiac or Union or RPI, SLU vs. Clarkson because that is the big draw there. I don't know what else to say other than that.

RPI has played a midesason, nonconference game vs. Clarkson in LP (1/7/17), also twice vs. Union (I think as part of doubleheaders).

I actually forgot about that Clarkson/RPI game. The Union/RPI games were back in 2010-2011 for the first 2 years of the Halloween Faceoff that they used to do. It was double header with the Union/RPI game first and the SLU/Clarkson game second. I was at both games. Vaguely remember them. The Clarkson/RPI game had an attendance figure of 2,300 compared to the 5,500 listed for SLU/Clarkson games in Lake Placid back in 2013.

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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Just get into the rink, and figure it out from there.

This.  The weekend is going to be 90% Q and Cornell fans.  The Q fans are going to leave after their game to either celebrate or slink back to Toilet-on-the-Connecticut.

We will have a half empty building to ourselves.

Advice: if you come without tickets get there early because LP has yet to get their shit together at the walkup office, and the lines get long. You'll get in but you don't want to miss the whole first period.

Curious, doesn't SLU travel well?  Such a short drive?  I would hope they would. Can't wait for Friday night! LGR!!

if everyone in canton goes, they could fill as many as two sections

You're joking right? You all do realize that the 2 biggest draws in Lake Placid always have been SLU and Clarkson? It's actually not even close. I read the comment the other day about the "90% Q and Cornell fans" and chuckled. It's only an hour and a half from Canton to Lake Placid and, every time we play there, roughly half of the attendees are SLU fans. So, just letting you know, yes there will be plenty of SLU fans there.

This is simply not true.  I've been to every Lake Placid ECACs and the SLU presence is never significant.  They are great fans and they travel well, but their pool is just too small.  Every SLU fan is an outstanding fan, and Canton gives it everything they have, and I have spent many an evening and many a beer hanging out with them, but they do not have numbers.

Heavy: Cornell, Clarkson, extremely annoyingly Quinnipiac, once upon a time Vermont

Medium: Union, RPI

Small: Colgate, St. Lawrence, Dartmouth

Nearly Zero: Brown, Princeton, Yale even when they were good, Harvard

I really don't mean to be rude, but if you actually think that Quinnipiac has a heavy travel presence in Lake Placid and that Union or RPI bring more fans than SLU then you just plain and simply do not know what you are talking about. I've been going to each and every ECAC tournament since the first go around in Lake Placid back in the 90's, the Atlantic City days, the Albany days etc and SLU and Clarkson and Cornell are the big draws to Lake Placid. Always have been. SLU has made it twice to Lake Placid (since its return) back in 2015 and 2016 and it was partisan, significantly partisan SLU fans compared to the other teams. There were even articles in the local papers commenting on "the significantly partisan SLU turnout" at the time. When SLU/Clarkson met in the Championship game back in 1999 it was a complete sellout (8,200) and about a 50/50 split between fans. It's always been this way and it's pretty much common knowledge (or so I thought it was) that the North Country teams are the big draws for Placid. That's why there have been numerous non-conference games played between SLU and Clarkson at Lake Placid. Not SLU or Clarkson vs Quinnipiac or Union or RPI, SLU vs. Clarkson because that is the big draw there. I don't know what else to say other than that.

The only other thing to add would be that if Quinnipiac is a heavy draw in Lake Placid (they are not) then why would they give SLU and Cornell Section 3 and Section 11? Which are the 2 biggest corner sections since they removed the top 3 rows in Sections 16 and 24 to add the standing platforms? Quinnipiac has sold a whopping 1 ... Yes 1 ticket in their fan section. We've sold more than half of our allotment already and that was with many fans giving up prior to the code being provided and just getting tickets scattered elsewhere throughout the rink.

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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Just get into the rink, and figure it out from there.

This.  The weekend is going to be 90% Q and Cornell fans.  The Q fans are going to leave after their game to either celebrate or slink back to Toilet-on-the-Connecticut.

We will have a half empty building to ourselves.

Advice: if you come without tickets get there early because LP has yet to get their shit together at the walkup office, and the lines get long. You'll get in but you don't want to miss the whole first period.

Curious, doesn't SLU travel well?  Such a short drive?  I would hope they would. Can't wait for Friday night! LGR!!

if everyone in canton goes, they could fill as many as two sections

You're joking right? You all do realize that the 2 biggest draws in Lake Placid always have been SLU and Clarkson? It's actually not even close. I read the comment the other day about the "90% Q and Cornell fans" and chuckled. It's only an hour and a half from Canton to Lake Placid and, every time we play there, roughly half of the attendees are SLU fans. So, just letting you know, yes there will be plenty of SLU fans there.

This is simply not true.  I've been to every Lake Placid ECACs and the SLU presence is never significant.  They are great fans and they travel well, but their pool is just too small.  Every SLU fan is an outstanding fan, and Canton gives it everything they have, and I have spent many an evening and many a beer hanging out with them, but they do not have numbers.

Heavy: Cornell, Clarkson, extremely annoyingly Quinnipiac, once upon a time Vermont

Medium: Union, RPI

Small: Colgate, St. Lawrence, Dartmouth

Nearly Zero: Brown, Princeton, Yale even when they were good, Harvard

I really don't mean to be rude, but if you actually think that Quinnipiac has a heavy travel presence in Lake Placid and that Union or RPI bring more fans than SLU then you just plain and simply do not know what you are talking about. I've been going to each and every ECAC tournament since the first go around in Lake Placid back in the 90's, the Atlantic City days, the Albany days etc and SLU and Clarkson and Cornell are the big draws to Lake Placid. Always have been. SLU has made it twice to Lake Placid (since its return) back in 2015 and 2016 and it was partisan, significantly partisan SLU fans compared to the other teams. There were even articles in the local papers commenting on "the significantly partisan SLU turnout" at the time. When SLU/Clarkson met in the Championship game back in 1999 it was a complete sellout (8,200) and about a 50/50 split between fans. It's always been this way and it's pretty much common knowledge (or so I thought it was) that the North Country teams are the big draws for Placid. That's why there have been numerous non-conference games played between SLU and Clarkson at Lake Placid. Not SLU or Clarkson vs Quinnipiac or Union or RPI, SLU vs. Clarkson because that is the big draw there. I don't know what else to say other than that.

Quote from: Jim HylaFor some perspective, horrors:

Neither Q, SLU, nor Dartmouth have anything on their website about tickets, just a link to the LP site.

Yup, we are all in a panic about it too. I'm getting flooded with messages from friends and fellow fans about the ticket info and we know we are in Section 3. Just nothing yet on how to purchase tickets in that section. So, you're not alone, but it's so frustrating!

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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Just get into the rink, and figure it out from there.

This.  The weekend is going to be 90% Q and Cornell fans.  The Q fans are going to leave after their game to either celebrate or slink back to Toilet-on-the-Connecticut.

We will have a half empty building to ourselves.

Advice: if you come without tickets get there early because LP has yet to get their shit together at the walkup office, and the lines get long. You'll get in but you don't want to miss the whole first period.

Curious, doesn't SLU travel well?  Such a short drive?  I would hope they would. Can't wait for Friday night! LGR!!

if everyone in canton goes, they could fill as many as two sections

You're joking right? You all do realize that the 2 biggest draws in Lake Placid always have been SLU and Clarkson? It's actually not even close. I read the comment the other day about the "90% Q and Cornell fans" and chuckled. It's only an hour and a half from Canton to Lake Placid and, every time we play there, roughly half of the attendees are SLU fans. So, just letting you know, yes there will be plenty of SLU fans there.