Attendance at Regionals

[Jesus of Suburbia]

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You're right, that is a possibility. But it doesn't seem to be a likely one.

I think it would have help having some local people attend plus the fanbase would have to take a full day of work off. Example N. Dakota fans could worked a half day or something and flown out. I am guessing most fans did a red eye flight or flew in Thursday.

[Priceless]

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Attendance in Manchester was 8049

[omahasioux1]

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Reported attendance at Grand Rapids: 2,289.

http://www.collegehockeystats.net/12...s/mndknia1.m29

Lets go there again in 2 years.

[unh1982]

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Attendance in Manchester was 8049

Providence should be a little better , I think about 10,000 plus ...

[J.D.]

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10,000 plus in providence? No chance. Will be lucky to get 5000

[unh1982]

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10,000 plus in providence? No chance. Will be lucky to get 5000

ok JD we will make a high stakes wager ... i say at least what manchavegas gets ..

[chickod]

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And if college hockey gets miniscule tv numbers, why are they so concerned with staggering games?

You know...that's a really good point and so obvious I don't know why someone hasn't thought of it before. All we hear year after year is "TV controls everything." I say, "WHY???" Nobody's watching anyway. So I guess the answer is, it's gotten to the point where the gate revenue is inconsequential. Regardless of who is actually watching, the TV revenue apparently is more important. Some executive idiot is deciding that they are going to pay enough for the rights to these games that it obviously supersedes the concern about attendance. Of course, if that's the case, then why don't they lower ticket prices??? Interesting topic for discussion, and alluding to an earlier discussion on another thread today, I really think it's time to reconsider going back to the Super-Regionals (two six-team regionals). It's embarrassing to watch the empty arenas in some of these games.

[chickod]

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Providence should be a little better , I think about 10,000 plus ...

You must be delusional.

[unh1982]

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You must be delusional.

I have known to be delusional , hockey does well in providence , not that this is the prov, bruins but they draw pretty decent crowds . Hockey is big in RI , and its been a while since we have had the ncaas...we shall see

[J.D.]

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Unh, I love your optimism but don't think it will be anything near manchester

[chickod]

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I have known to be delusional , hockey does well in providence , not that this is the prov, bruins but they draw pretty decent crowds . Hockey is big in RI , and its been a while since we have had the ncaas...we shall see

I'm just talking in terms of the teams. You don't have any big state schools there, and BC hasn't been known to exactly draw millions of fans. I'm just saying...who's going to bring the fans to fill it up? Certainly not Quinnipiac, Canisius or Union. Not like a Maine or UNH, or even Big 10 huge schools like Michigan or Wisconsin. Just don't see it happening...

[J.D.]

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Chickod, bc fan support has been as good as any other team in HE over the past five years. Major problems are prices, easter weekend, not an "attractive" field and bc game at 9 pm at the earliest. Just a horrible combination.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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Attendance in Manchester was 8049

What's capacity?

[chickod]

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Chickod, bc fan support has been as good as any other team in HE over the past five years. Major problems are prices, easter weekend, not an "attractive" field and bc game at 9 pm at the earliest. Just a horrible combination.

Well, it ought to be given your current success. Besides, that's why I said "Quinnipiac, Canisius or Union" won't bring many fans. I don't think BC is going to bring 7000 fans to get the total figure to 10,000 - that's all. I mean, c'mon...BU had at least as many as BC last Friday night and that was played five miles from BC's campus.

[Hux]

Chickod, bc fan support has been as good as any other team in HE over the past five years. Major problems are prices, easter weekend, not an "attractive" field and bc game at 9 pm at the earliest. Just a horrible combination.

Isn't BC on spring break this week?