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As a GWH season ticket holder, I bought my Frozen Four tickets on the first day of pre-sale (on Monday, 12/15). I'm sure many GWH season ticket holders did likewise. And today I received my freebie ticket for the Wisconsin game. But I doubt there were many FF ticket buyers from the fans of the other Gopher sports.
Although there are quite a few (like myself) who regularly do go the games who are not season ticket holders. Any of these folks who have season tickets to other Gopher sports (and/or who contribute to Gopher sports) have Gopher Points, which enabled them to buy FF tickets on the 18th. Based on my experience there were still a lot of good seats still available, as I was able to get Row 8 between the blue lines. If this FF is like the last one, the arena will eventually sell out, and people who show up without tickets will be paying a lot more than face value outside.
But isn't this always the case?
Much easier to count the number of capital letters that were used.
Bad assumption. Had BC won in 2013, they'd have played BU in front of the one section of fans each of them could muster up, the 100 or so people like Hux and DC who go to all the FFs, and the 500 or 600 Gopher fans who are hardcore enough to show up and support the sport. Most of the rest could care less if the Gophers aren't playing, so you either need a team with some fan base around here ('Sconi') or a decent number of local alumni (maybe Harvard). Maybe if BC was trying to finish off an undefeated season this year that would bring some people for that novelty. But if you are playing Quinnipiac, don't expect anything more than half full.
I wouldn't go that far. Minnesota has just hosted too many times for the novelty factor to draw fans to a Gopher-less tournament. It's been held here in 1999, 2001, 2006, 2010, 2013, and now 2015. The only one the Gophers missed was 2001; UMD traveled much better in those days, so it only felt empty because it was in Mariucci. Duluth has hosted three times (2003, 2008, and 2012), and the one they didn't reach had UM vs UW in the title game, so no ghost town. Given there hadn't been one in the surrounding area since the one in Boston in 2009, I expected that last year would draw more people (not just sell tickets) than it did, because the title game last year looked nothing like a sellout, no matter how many people were standing by the rail.
I didn't mean it as a slight to Minnesota at all -- mostly (having gone to exactly 1 championship game ever) I thought that in a small-ish arena with civilization nearby like Minny or QU that the national championship game would just kind of naturally sell out. I guess the sport's just not there yet.
I'll add that the Clarkson fan-base traveled well last year. They had a lot of fans in attendance.
I didn't go to the 2009 Frozen Four even though it was down the street, but that was also because I didn't want to pay $40 or whatever to see 3 teams I hate play for a national championship.
Who knows; they hardly ever win anymore.