Cornell/BU Thanksgiving (11/24) Ticket Info

ithacat · April 30, 2007, 04:21:35 PM

[quote Josh '99][quote ithacat]Too bad it's only a 3-game series.[/quote]Eh, 3 is fine. I'd like to see more games against schools we haven't played before (or haven't played in a long time).[/quote]

3 is better than one or none. B-]

DeltaOne81 · April 30, 2007, 04:44:02 PM

[quote billhoward][quote DeltaOne81]Nevermind two teams selling out MSG for a regular season game on a holiday weekend when many people will put family first and hockey a distant second (yes, believe it or not :-P ).[/quote]

Family first on Thursday, yes. But this is Saturday.

Maybe students have become more family focused in the wake of 9/11 or something. But on the chance today's students feel as their parents did when they were students, and the parents' parents ... much as you love seeing mom and dad and day three of turkey leftovers, sometimes, some students, might just want to get the hell out of the house for a little personal peace. The Garden looms large, then.[/quote]

Yes, but that only applies to those who go live within a couple hours drive of NYC (plenty, but far from all), go home for the holidays, and are big hockey fans. That last part alone knocks it down to at most a few thousand, and then the first two cut that down much more.

Add in alumni, etc and I have very little doubt they'll be a nice crowd, but, 'OMG, the tickets have been on sale for nearly 3 hours and I have yet to get my information' is still ridiculously overblown. It'll probably be the emptiest MSG hockey even in several years.

For instance, its nearly 12 hours later (!!!!!) and TicketMaster is offering me row 4, near the ice, at the blue line. Or row 5 at center ice in the 100s. So chill.

P.S. Does Cornell have any fees to order them (a few bucks shipping, as usual?) Cause TicketMaster again feels they deserve a 30% markup for being so 'convenient'.

Dpperk29 · April 30, 2007, 05:06:02 PM

[quote billhoward]
Sometimes we confuse a close-knit family with the washer and dryer at home being free.[/quote]

you have no idea how true that is... the cooking is nice, but the washer and dryer (and the mother who will do it just because you are home) are the reason students go home...

KeithK · April 30, 2007, 06:50:56 PM

[quote Dpperk29][quote billhoward]
Sometimes we confuse a close-knit family with the washer and dryer at home being free.[/quote]

you have no idea how true that is... the cooking is nice, but the washer and dryer (and the mother who will do it just because you are home) are the reason students go home...[/quote]
Washers and dryers are free at home? Not in my NYC apartment they weren't...

Dpperk29 · April 30, 2007, 07:02:03 PM

[quote KeithK][quote Dpperk29][quote billhoward]
Sometimes we confuse a close-knit family with the washer and dryer at home being free.[/quote]

you have no idea how true that is... the cooking is nice, but the washer and dryer (and the mother who will do it just because you are home) are the reason students go home...[/quote]
Washers and dryers are free at home? Not in my NYC apartment they weren't...[/quote]

nothing is free in NYC... those who live their after they are out of college/out of mom and dad's house accept this fact

KeithK · April 30, 2007, 08:16:13 PM

[quote Dpperk29][quote KeithK][quote Dpperk29][quote billhoward]
Sometimes we confuse a close-knit family with the washer and dryer at home being free.[/quote]

you have no idea how true that is... the cooking is nice, but the washer and dryer (and the mother who will do it just because you are home) are the reason students go home...[/quote]
Washers and dryers are free at home? Not in my NYC apartment they weren't...[/quote]

nothing is free in NYC... those who live their after they are out of college/out of mom and dad's house accept this fact[/quote]
I know that. And I meant when I was growing up in NYC. I remember several times explaining to friends that it didn't make any sense for me to bring my laundry home because it was cheaper at school. Just one of the things that set me apart as an NYC kid.

I still miss the looks I got when I told people that I didn't have a drivers license. Fun stuff!

jaybert · May 04, 2007, 11:27:58 AM

what ticket locations are you all getting? I will probably need 8, ticketmaster is giving me section 40, which is side of the net. Called Cornell and they only have ~5 seats between their 2 lower level sections.

also, what is this $9.95 service charge per ticket? is the service fee still present if you purchase it directly from a ticketmaster location/madison square garden

Ben Rocky '04 · May 04, 2007, 04:25:21 PM

[quote jaybert]
also, what is this $9.95 service charge per ticket? is the service fee still present if you purchase it directly from a ticketmaster location/madison square garden[/quote]

It doesn't look like you can get tickets through MSG itself, just ticketmaster. Are you kidding about that charge? Thats fucking ridiculous.

nycranger · May 04, 2007, 04:37:26 PM

Just got mine from the box office at the Garden. There is no extra charge at all...face value (49, 29, 24). You have to ask them about the cornell sections since the guy at the window didn't know and had to ask some other people. Got 4 seats in sec 116.

jaybert · May 04, 2007, 04:47:05 PM

[quote nycranger]Just got mine from the box office at the Garden. There is no extra charge at all...face value (49, 29, 24). You have to ask them about the cornell sections since the guy at the window didn't know and had to ask some other people. Got 4 seats in sec 116.[/quote]

whoops..wish i had known that..could of asked one of my friends in NY to pick them up w/o the stupid extra chrage. oh well, if you spread it out between everyone, its only $10/each. whats another $10 when Im going to spend $400 to fly there right?

oh well, happy with my seat. i ended up opening 2 different windows to ticketmaster, and the first try got 2 sets of 4, 1 behind the other.

BMac · May 05, 2007, 01:36:17 AM

Important Info:

The Cornell section is pretty much one-half the rink. The ticket office at Bartels gets a few sections at a time- the guy told me 500 tickets at a time. So, while the section of the rink they've sold out so far kind of sucks (I'm in 119), they will probably be getting better section as time goes by.

If it's an option for you, I'd recommend going to Bartels and figuring out what they've sold and what's going on, then deciding whether to Ticketmaster or just buy right there. I'm sure calling them will do just as well.

David Harding · May 06, 2007, 02:05:02 AM

Poking around the Ticketmaster site, I was amused to find that when asking me to choose a section, they offered two choices "CORNELL FAN SECTION" and "Best available".

billhoward · May 06, 2007, 09:01:20 AM

[quote David Harding]Poking around the Ticketmaster site, I was amused to find that when asking me to choose a section, they offered two choices "CORNELL FAN SECTION" and "Best available".[/quote]

Another example of the Lax Swami's subtle bias reaching into other areas of sports?

billhoward · May 07, 2007, 09:07:25 AM

Trying to recall the last time Cornell played at Madison Square Garden - circa 1976?

Chris '03 · May 07, 2007, 09:16:49 AM

[quote billhoward]Trying to recall the last time Cornell played at Madison Square Garden - circa 1976?[/quote]

[quote CU release]
Both the Big Red and the Terriers will be making their first appearance in the current incarnation of the "World's Most Famous Arena," and the game will be the first collegiate hockey game held at Madison Square Garden since 2003.[/quote]
http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/042907aab.html

The "current incarnation" dates to what, ~1964?