Hockey East future tournament structure

[jjmc85]

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It's also a system that is easy to sell to your members from a financial standpoint, because 8 of the 12 teams are guaranteed a 2-3 game home series.

Do schools make money on the quarterfinal games? Isn't attendance usually pretty bad due to students being on break at most schools?

 

[Priceless]

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Mookie no wanna go Hartford. Mookie has everything he wants in providence. That is where mookie will go.

OK, you go to Providence and watch the tournament on TV from Boston.

 

[mookie1995]

OK, you go to Providence and watch the tournament on TV from Boston.

Smartest thing you've ever typed!! . ("only"... )

 

[BU2K]

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For a Final 5 format, play the 4-5 game at Agganis and then move to the Gahden for Fri-Sat.

Gahden is too convenient for them northeners. Lots of them take the train into North Station for the games.

No bye weeks.

 

[jjmc85]

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^ Conte or Matthews. Agganis would probably charge roughly $8 billion for a pair of standing room tickets to that game.

 

[Agganis]

^ Conte or Matthews. Agganis would probably charge roughly $8 billion for a pair of standing room tickets to that game.

NU melts the ice the morning after their season ends, it'd be awkward playing the play in game on cement the vast majority of years

 

[mookie1995]

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silly fools! uncle joe is selling these as a three night package!!

 

[Carmine Scarpaglia]

Future HE tourney format: just give the trophy to BC and save everyone else the heartache and expense of paying to watch their team lose.

That's a better idea than anything Bertagna and the league brain trust has come up with in a few years.

 

[mookie1995]

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Future HE tourney format: just give the trophy to BC and save everyone else the heartache and expense of paying to watch their team lose.

That's a better idea than anything Bertagna and the league brain trust has come up with in a few years.

and how does joe make any $$$ then?

 

[Cat lover]

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Lets all stop trying to suggest moving the tourney out of Boston, I tried suggesting that last year and the Boston teams fans
let it be clearly known that the last thing they ever want is to lose the huge advantage that always having the final four in your beackyard has.

 

[Priceless]

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Lets all stop trying to suggest moving the tourney out of Boston, I tried suggesting that last year and the Boston teams fans
let it be clearly known that the last thing they ever want is to lose the huge advantage that always having the final four in your beackyard has.

You wouldn't just hear cries from fans of the Boston schools. It's easily the largest city in the region, with the largest and most prestigious arena. It's also remarkably easy for transportation as you can take the train or bus from just about every campus in New England. The Downeaster brings Maine and New Hampshire fans right to North Station. You can take the Commuter Rail from Lowell, and I assume there is easy mass transit from Montpelier, Amherst, Providence and North Andover. What other city in New England has such easy travel considerations, hotels to accommodate teams and fans, more restaurants and attractions than you can possibly imagine? There's really no other choice than Boston Garden.

 

[brassbonanza]

You wouldn't just hear cries from fans of the Boston schools. It's easily the largest city in the region, with the largest and most prestigious arena. It's also remarkably easy for transportation as you can take the train or bus from just about every campus in New England. The Downeaster brings Maine and New Hampshire fans right to North Station. You can take the Commuter Rail from Lowell, and I assume there is easy mass transit from Montpelier, Amherst, Providence and North Andover. What other city in New England has such easy travel considerations, hotels to accommodate teams and fans, more restaurants and attractions than you can possibly imagine? There's really no other choice than Boston Garden.

Stop that makes too much sense. The home ice advantage BU has over Maine this past year was enormous.

 

[CHFAN222]

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You wouldn't just hear cries from fans of the Boston schools. It's easily the largest city in the region, with the largest and most prestigious arena. It's also remarkably easy for transportation as you can take the train or bus from just about every campus in New England. The Downeaster brings Maine and New Hampshire fans right to North Station. You can take the Commuter Rail from Lowell, and I assume there is easy mass transit from Montpelier, Amherst, Providence and North Andover. What other city in New England has such easy travel considerations, hotels to accommodate teams and fans, more restaurants and attractions than you can possibly imagine? There's really no other choice than Boston Garden.

Agree with you 100% though I wanted to note that unfortunately mass transit from Western Mass to Boston is not as good as it should be. The only train from Springfield to Boston is one Amtrak train a day. The MBTA does not go out that far at this time.

 

[mookie1995]

....... The MBTA does not go out that far at this time.

Good

 

[Onion Man]

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How about going back to the HockeyFest era and have the ECAC and Hockey championships at the Garden on the same weekend? Everybody wins

 

[Priceless]

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How about going back to the HockeyFest era and have the ECAC and Hockey championships at the Garden on the same weekend? Everybody wins

I don't think the ECAC liked playing second fiddle to Hockey East. I also don't think Hockey East likes the idea of splitting revenue when HEA fans buy most of the tickets to Saturday's finals and the stands are virtually empty until the 3rd period of the ECAC Championship. It had a very high school feel to it...as we used to say, it was like the JV playing first and then the Varsity taking the ice.

But as someone who likes watching hockey, I might support it, depending on what the HEA decides to do with playoffs.

 

[WeAreNDHockey]

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This would put the entire league at a SEVERE PWR disadvantage compared to the rest of the country.

How? A second place MSU missed the NCAAs a couple of years ago following a CCHA series loss to UM. Had the CCHA simply ended the regular season at the same time and awarded their auto bid to the reg. season winner, MSU may have HELD ONTO an at-large spot in the NCAAs instead of sitting out the tourney. I think the advantages and the risks would tend to even out.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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I don't think the ECAC liked playing second fiddle to Hockey East. I also don't think Hockey East likes the idea of splitting revenue when HEA fans buy most of the tickets to Saturday's finals and the stands are virtually empty until the 3rd period of the ECAC Championship. It had a very high school feel to it...as we used to say, it was like the JV playing first and then the Varsity taking the ice.

But as someone who likes watching hockey, I might support it, depending on what the HEA decides to do with playoffs.

Maybe the league should look into getting a TV deal first.

 

[WeAreNDHockey]

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Do schools make money on the quarterfinal games? Isn't attendance usually pretty bad due to students being on break at most schools?

I think attendance is often horrible for these games. Notre Dame's smallest crowd last season in the Compton by far was a playoff game. Some years ago one of the smaller schools in the CCHA (memory says LSSU) said that had they finished in a home ice position it would have been a financial disaster based on the league requirements for hosting a playoff series and would have declined to host if possible. WMU hosted a 3 game series a few years back that drew fewer than 2300 total for all three nights combined.

 

[kingdobbs]

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Do schools make money on the quarterfinal games? Isn't attendance usually pretty bad due to students being on break at most schools?

I don't suspect that most arenas have such a tight margin for profitability that if a single game fails to sell out, or even draw 75%, there's no profit to be had. Certainly, for most of the arenas in college hockey, a hockey game is the most profitable of all available options, especially if the venue is owned by the school themselves.

That being said, the schools do not typically get ticket revenue from the events (that goes to the league in most circumstances, and the school may not see much, if any, of it come back in the form of revenue redistributions), so the actual net profit for the postseason events might not be as large as a typical regular season event.