Frozen Four

rhovorka · March 19, 2003, 01:19:21 PM

For those worrying about changing itineraries for either Regionals or the Frozen Four, USAirways just announced a policy thanks to the uncertain international situation that might be of interest. Basically, they are eliminating the fees for changing destination cities and/or travel dates from now until June. I would bet that other airlines have similar policies.

http://www.usairways.com/about/press/nw_03_0318b.htm

Go Red · March 30, 2003, 04:41:13 PM

Let's take over the rink - the whole place should be a Cornell section.

kingpin248 · March 30, 2003, 08:09:36 PM

Interesting note on this year's FF - it could also be termed the "Tournament of Champions." The tournament champion of each of the four major conferences is heading to Buffalo.

Cornell's appearance is the first for an ECAC team since 2000 (SLU) and the first for an Ivy team since 1994 (Harvard).

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Section A · March 30, 2003, 08:32:49 PM

Just watching "JD on Ice" on the the MSG network, and he said that recovering Rangers goaltender Mike Richter "may be doing some TV work for the upcoming NCAA hockey championships." Cool

Of course, before starting his pro career, Richter played, only for a short time (2 years I believe), at Wisconsin in the mid-'80s.

peterg · March 30, 2003, 10:15:15 PM

Richter is also very familiar with the CU program, having summered in Ithaca for a number of years, and being a friend of Mike's.

Section A · March 30, 2003, 10:20:07 PM

Clarification question:

Did you mean you're a friend of Richter's, or did you mean that Richter is a friend of Schafer? (just wondering since I think what you said could be read either way)

peterg · March 30, 2003, 11:04:35 PM

Too many Mikes in that post. I've met Richter, but no, I wouldn't call him a friend. Richter rented a lake cottage near Joe N.'s place for a number of summers. I believe Mike and Diane Schafer attended the Richter wedding and were pretty good friends.

adamw · March 31, 2003, 12:53:41 AM

Couple notes:

Sean McDonough and Bob Norton are calling the FF on ESPN, with Mike Richter, perhaps.

Also ... as for tickets. Cornell fans should not give up. Do not resign yourselves to not being able to get tickets. There are almost always ways of getting tickets, and it's usually not that hard, despite the sellout.

Last year, there were 18,000 Minnesota fans in the building, and I guarantee they didn't all have original tickets. Not even close.

jtwcornell91 · March 31, 2003, 07:37:02 AM

Also, don't resign yourself to getting scalped yet. Lots of tickets will change hands on USCHO and Hockey-L in the next week.

Al DeFlorio · March 31, 2003, 08:32:17 AM

In his salad days ten or so years ago, Sean did the play-by-play for the weekly Cornell football broadcasts on ESPN. So he shouldn't confuse us with Colgate. And Norton--even with his faults--will be a welcome change from some former NHLer who doesn't know UHN from URI.

jtwcornell91 · March 31, 2003, 10:01:00 AM

Have Frank Mazzocco and Bob Norton ever called a game together? That'd be my Dream Team. Probably not the best in the biz, but both enthusiastic ambassadors for the sport, and between the two of them they probably know about the entire NCAA (with the possible exception of the CCHA).

CrazyLarry · March 31, 2003, 10:25:53 AM

I have my tickets - Section 113 Row 30

CrazyLarry · March 31, 2003, 10:43:59 AM

I'm curious what the possibility is for somehow collecting critical mass of Cornell fans in one place given we're all getting tickets from anywhere we can find them. For those who've been to previous FFs, is there the possibility you could try to trade with fans from other schools to get ourselves in one place, wherever that might be?

I'm just curious, I don't want to be a lonely facepainted fool in a section of (g-d forbid) gopher fans or something...

cquinn · March 31, 2003, 10:57:04 AM

Based on the other FFs I've been to, with the exception of the small corner given to the school, fans are scattered around. You can try swapping but I wouldn't count on it. People who have lower bowl tickets that they bought a year ago aren't likely to give them up to go sit in the upper deck. If the fans for the second game don't show until later, you might be able to move around. That depends on the rink staff.

Josh 03 · March 31, 2003, 11:26:13 AM

Some preliminary word is that there will be about 200 tickets to be sold via the Cornell ticket office, half to student season ticket holders, half to non-student season ticket holders. There will be 2 seperate lotterys.

I think a good effort by the department. It would be truly unfair for anyone off the street to buy tickets. Then you could have any Joe who thought "Cornell Hockey is pretty cool and Buffalo is so close" have equal footing with the faithful. Not selling any tickets to students (as some people predicted) would have been equally unfair, but never would have happened.

So that's the initial word. I'm sure we'll know all the details in the next few days.

~Josh

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