Extra Tickets

[Mike Steinfeld]

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...

[jbeaber1998]

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

[CUlater]

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.

[Janos]

CUlater '89 wrote:

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.

[judy]

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!

[rhovorka]

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...

[jd212]

Because they know they are going to lose and don't even want to bother driving the 8 hours.:-D