WCHA Final Five: Hello Empty Seats

[Hobbit]

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How has attendance been without the Gophers? Still well attended or no?

From the Minneapolis Star And Tribune

• Attendance at the championship game was announced as 16,414, bringing the three-day Final Five total to 71,533. That was the lowest total since 2001 when the tournament drew 67,612. It had more than 80,000 fans the past four years.

So down around 10k from the last 4 years...about 12% or so.

[dggoddard]

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From the Minneapolis Star And Tribune

• Attendance at the championship game was announced as 16,414, bringing the three-day Final Five total to 71,533. That was the lowest total since 2001 when the tournament drew 67,612. It had more than 80,000 fans the past four years.

So down around 10k from the last 4 years...about 12% or so.

All in all a great turnout. It appeared that only the cheapest seats weren't filled so not quite the disaster expected.

The Tournament should receive some sort of a "bump" next season by getting rid of the Third Place game.

[du78]

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From the Minneapolis Star And Tribune

• Attendance at the championship game was announced as 16,414, bringing the three-day Final Five total to 71,533. That was the lowest total since 2001 when the tournament drew 67,612. It had more than 80,000 fans the past four years.

So down around 10k from the last 4 years...about 12% or so.

That is probably 70,000 more than the CCHA Championship playoffs at the Joe

[Shirtless Guy]

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All in all a great turnout. It appeared that only the cheapest seats weren't filled so not quite the disaster expected.

The Tournament should receive some sort of a "bump" next season by getting rid of the Third Place game.

Uhm, actually the cheap seats were sold...every seat at the X was the same price except for the upper deck ends. The upper deck sides probably had 100-200 fans total at every game except the championship.

[SiouxTechie]

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Just curious, if UND actually plays hockey, what do the other teams do?

Go golfing.

It ceases to amaze me how clueless people are. Any time anyone anounces attendance figures it is SOLD tickets. Figure it out finally. Plus, it's all that really matters. That's where the money comes from.

Not neccesarily. Let's say we're talking about the X. If you sell 17,000 tickets but only 5,000 people show up (let's say it's a DU/CC game haha) then I would say that yes it does matter if people show up or not. It makes a big difference with atmosphere.

[Shirtless Guy]

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The only highlight of Friday was running into someone on the sidewalk after the Badger game with "Shirtless Guy" on his tech jersey, who turned out to ineeded be THE Shirtless Guy.

Hah, glad to have made your day!

Dear god, this was a highlight?

Seriously? You doubt my ability to a highlight of someone's day?

[RedFreak]

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I also don't undertand why everyone who paid for the cheap seats on the end hasn't just moved around to the sides for a free in game upgrade. The only really full rows on the upper level sides have been when a row win the Kelloggs prize pack and everyone races over there to get in on the action.

Yeah, it was weird to see the upper ends about 50% full while the upper sides were deserted.

[bigblue_dl]

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Yeah, it was weird to see the upper ends about 50% full while the upper sides were deserted.

I prefer the view from upper level end than upper level sides. Don't really know why, but I've sat in both at the X, and if given the choice I'd sit on the end.