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Frozen Four Date Change

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BuckyB

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The NCAA has reached a new level of stupidity !!!
Frozen Four 2027 will now be Sunday March 21 and the final Tuesday March 23

What a slap in the face to Women’s hockey !!
 
Originally, the semifinals were slated for Friday, March 19, with the final being played March 21. Committee members’ rationale for making the change is to have all three games of the Women’s Frozen Four televised on ESPN’s linear channels.

We are grateful to our host, Minnesota Duluth, for its continued commitment to delivering a first-class championship experience for student-athletes
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So this implies that all 3 games were NOT going to be on ESPN's linear channels? They are saying a 75% reduction in attendance is worth being on ESPN's linear channels. Whose taking off 3 days of work to attend this?

A first class championship experience in an empty arena?
 
Timothy A said:
Originally, the semifinals were slated for Friday, March 19, with the final being played March 21. Committee members’ rationale for making the change is to have all three games of the Women’s Frozen Four televised on ESPN’s linear channels.

We are grateful to our host, Minnesota Duluth, for its continued commitment to delivering a first-class championship experience for student-athletes
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So this implies that all 3 games were NOT going to be on ESPN's linear channels? They are saying a 75% reduction in attendance is worth being on ESPN's linear channels. Whose taking off 3 days of work to attend this?

A first class championship experience in an empty arena?
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In fact, the 2026 semis were only on ESPN-Plus - that is, streamed only - and the final was on ESPNU.
 
Timothy A said:
Originally, the semifinals were slated for Friday, March 19, with the final being played March 21. Committee members’ rationale for making the change is to have all three games of the Women’s Frozen Four televised on ESPN’s linear channels.

We are grateful to our host, Minnesota Duluth, for its continued commitment to delivering a first-class championship experience for student-athletes
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So this implies that all 3 games were NOT going to be on ESPN's linear channels? They are saying a 75% reduction in attendance is worth being on ESPN's linear channels. Whose taking off 3 days of work to attend this?

A first class championship experience in an empty arena?
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Well at least you can pull the trigger at the last moment and score some cheap tickets when Wisconsin makes the final.
 
being on a network is better than streaming only and being on a broadcast network would be even better. Keep growing the game and it will happen.
 
Timothy A said:
Yeah but streaming is a way of life right now. It will be a bad optic to play in an empty building.
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If you want to be there, you'll make it work.

As someone who works 2nd shift (3pm-11pm Eastern) including many weekends, using PTO to watch or attend sporting events is a way of life.

As far as empty arenas, maybe it's time for the NCAA to start going to pwhl cities that can draw 8k+ for a women's hockey game
 
wildfire said:
As far as empty arenas, maybe it's time for the NCAA to start going to pwhl cities that can draw 8k+ for a women's hockey game
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The Frozen Four semifinal last season at Penn State set a tournament single-game record for attendance. If that can happen at Penn State, in a small city in the middle of nowhere (no disrespect to the Amish), it's not about what city the tournament is played in.
 
ZedLeppellin said:
The Frozen Four semifinal last season at Penn State set a tournament single-game record for attendance. If that can happen at Penn State, in a small city in the middle of nowhere (no disrespect to the Amish), it's not about what city the tournament is played in.
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Come on Zed, you are smarter/better than that. Put the blue cool aid aside and turn your noodle on again.
 
wildfire said:
If you want to be there, you'll make it work.

As someone who works 2nd shift (3pm-11pm Eastern) including many weekends, using PTO to watch or attend sporting events is a way of life.

As far as empty arenas, maybe it's time for the NCAA to start going to pwhl cities that can draw 8k+ for a women's hockey game
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People only have so many vacation days. Me and my extended family plan on using our vacation days way in advance and every one of those suckers is used up but other stuff. If I was to plan on attending the whole event, I would have to not do something else that I been doing or want to do. This throws a wrench in all these plans. I live 6 hours from Duluth. If you think I'm leaving Duluth at 10:30 at night and getting home at 4:30 to get up for work at 5:15, you're a little bit crazy.

Apparently ESPN has time on Sunday currently because they can show the semis, so Just show the final on ESPN and stream the semis. The following year make a deal with ESPN that they carve out time on Friday for the semis too.
 
Timothy A said:
People only have so many vacation days. Me and my extended family plan on using our vacation days way in advance and every one of those suckers is used up but other stuff. If I was to plan on attending the whole event, I would have to not do something else that I been doing or want to do. This throws a wrench in all these plans. I live 6 hours from Duluth. If you think I'm leaving Duluth at 10:30 at night and getting home at 4:30 to get up for work at 5:15, you're a little bit crazy.

Apparently ESPN has time on Sunday currently because they can show the semis, so Just show the final on ESPN and stream the semis. The following year make a deal with ESPN that they carve out time on Friday for the semis too.
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What is filling ESPN's schedule at that time is the women's NCAA basketball tournament. That Friday, they would have 16 games they are contracted to air somewhere across their channels. By Sunday, it would be down to eight games, and Tuesday would have none; Tuesday being between rounds of that tournament.

One could argue that having to compete with women's basketball means hockey should go somewhere else; back to BTN, for example. Is that better, more people able to watch, etc? Don't know.

Wherever hockey gets televised, on Friday/Sunday, it is competing with both men's and women's basketball tournaments, and neither of them on Tuesday.
 
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