Ohio State 2024-25 Domination of the Portal Queen!

[Ditra]

I think so. Mira Junaker who is an incoming freshman and wore #14 for us this series came from the team we just played. Here's a clip from her bio.

• Three-time IIHF Women's World Championship team member for Sweden

Interesting. I am not familiar with these off-season trips, do players have to be enrolled for the summer in order to participate? Sounds like there were a couple of transfers that didn't make the trip and I was thinking it might be they will not officially be enrolled until the fall.

[Hockeybuckeye]

Interesting. I am not familiar with these off-season trips, do players have to be enrolled for the summer in order to participate? Sounds like there were a couple of transfers that didn't make the trip and I was thinking it might be they will not officially be enrolled until the fall.

I'm not sure how it works or why some didn't make the trip. I do know we recruit from the Sweden program and have verbals for future seasons so it makes sense to have this interaction with them for a set of exhibition games.

[osualum86]

Way to start the season Buckeyes!!! What a great experience for the young women.

Impressive showing by our Buckeyes ... 2-0-1 vs. Team Sweden on their ice.

[Still Eeyore]

Ugh. I hate the experience of buying my tickets for games in Columbus. OSU easily has the worst ticket sales process in the WCHA, largely because it uses Ticketmaster. With the service fees, they are by far the most expensive tickets in the league. You don't create a basket; you have to go through the entire order process for each game. And you get flooded with "offers" for other, entirely unrelated products, and they switch up the positions of the "Yes" and "No, thanks" buttons to try to fool you.

[Hockeybuckeye]

Ugh. I hate the experience of buying my tickets for games in Columbus. OSU easily has the worst ticket sales process in the WCHA, largely because it uses Ticketmaster. With the service fees, they are by far the most expensive tickets in the league. You don't create a basket; you have to go through the entire order process for each game. And you get flooded with "offers" for other, entirely unrelated products, and they switch up the positions of the "Yes" and "No, thanks" buttons to try to fool you.

They are linked with Ticketmaster. I suggest in the future don't go through OSU's ticket office, buy through .Ticketmaster, you'll probably have a better experience.
Our tickets only went up to $13.00 but I see scalpers are already asking $41.00!

[Timothy A]

Our tickets only went up to $13.00 but I see scalpers are already asking $41.00!

13 for that rink? Lol. Wisconsin tickets are 8 for a superior experience.

[Sierra]

13 for that rink? Lol. Wisconsin tickets are 8 for a superior experience.

The superior experience of losing again and again to the BUCKEYES lol.

[Sierra]

I'll pay $13 all day to watch the BUCKEYES hammer teams that enter the OSU "rink" especially when they keep sweeping the baby badgers. Lol.

[Hockeybuckeye]

OK, I have a correction to make. Single game tickets for general public are listed at $10.00 but since Ohio State's ticket office is linked to Ticketmaster when you go to checkout the Ticketmaster fees & taxes are heaped on bumping a ticket up to $16.50 which is BS they add all that!

If you buy at the ticket window at the game if it's the same as last year the only addition will be a dollar "facility fee" so a ticket would be $11.00 but the problem with that is the game may already be sold out prior to the ticket window opening.
I had to dig a bit to get the correct info as I don't get my tickets through regular channels.

[Ditra]

I'll pay $13 all day to watch the BUCKEYES hammer teams that enter the OSU "rink" especially when they keep sweeping the baby badgers. Lol.

Given that games are a sellout, scalpers are getting 3x face, student population is like 50k, rink holds less than 1,000 and you have won two out of last three NCAA championships; why isn't the team playing at Value City like the men's team?

[Hockeybuckeye]

Given that games are a sellout, scalpers are getting 3x face, student population is like 50k, rink holds less than 1,000 and you have won two out of last three NCAA championships; why isn't the team playing at Value City like the men's team?

Value City Arena is the largest capacity on campus college hockey arena in the country seating almost 19,000 and people have bellyached for years it's too big for the men.
Wouldn't work for the women.
The promised new arena for the women is coming, the new NIL and pay the players situation has delayed things while the university sorts out all these new allocations of funds.

[Ditra]

Value City Arena is the largest capacity on campus college hockey arena in the country seating almost 19,000 and people have bellyached for years it's too big for the men.
Wouldn't work for the women.
The promised new arena for the women is coming, the new NIL and pay the players situation has delayed things while the university sorts out all these new allocations of funds.

I thought they basically closed the upper deck for the men's games. Anyway I feel your pain with the struggle to get a new arena, but it seems like given the money football generates it would be an easier process unless that profit doesn't make it to building appropriations. That makes it feel like there is opposition within the system that has made it so difficult and slow. Hasn't the "promise" been out there like 4 or 5 years?

[Hockeybuckeye]

I thought they basically closed the upper deck for the men's games. Anyway I feel your pain with the struggle to get a new arena, but it seems like given the money football generates it would be an easier process unless that profit doesn't make it to building appropriations. That makes it feel like there is opposition within the system that has made it so difficult and slow. Hasn't the "promise" been out there like 4 or 5 years?

Even with the upper deck of the arena curtained off the remaining seating is over 8000 and then there wouldn't be a locker room for them. The three main locker rooms are for the men's hockey, men's basketball and women's basketball which only leave the visitor's locker room.

The promise of the new arena goes back to when coach Muzerall came here. I don't know what the initial delay was but then when covid hit everything came to a halt. In the spring of '23 the Trustees allocated 2.7 million for the planning of the arena and after that it got complicated again.
After three straight football losses to Michigan the athletic department's attention went solely to right that ship and diverted funds that were set aside for the new arena to football

LIke I said previously now after the lawsuits and settlements against the NCAA they're having to figure out an entirely new system with NIL and the NCAA rule change of paying student athletes and that's a mess. They don't know if that makes them employees of the school and if so are they required to provide all the benefits the law requires of employers provide to employees? It's a real cluster ****!
Another glitch was the changing of the guard this year with a new university president and new AD with a different vision and priorities. At least the president is on board about the new area but as you can see it's been one thing after another.

[Hockeybuckeye]

I've now heard some ugly disquieting rumors.
Our football program wants to expand their practice facility and guess what that means for our new arena........

[vicb]

I've now heard some ugly disquieting rumors.
Our football program wants to expand their practice facility and guess what that means for our new arena........

Say it ain't so Joe !!!!