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NCHC: The Most Elite Conference in the Country

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4four4 said:
Eric you are still living in the past. You think it is still 2012 or something. The Gophers and Sioux don't play each other and haven't since 2013.;)
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After North Dakota won three straight titles from 2013-2015, the Gophers publicly announced that they would not play a team that is far superior to them in every facet of the game. :p:D:D
 
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Goon said:
I just threw up a bit in my mouth after that comment. I couldn't cheer for the Gophers if my life depended on it. :) I would have to take a bath with a wife brush.
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The feeling is mutual. I would take a hydrochloric acid bath before I rooted for the Whioux. And I'm HAZMAT certified, so I know what the result would be. ;)
 
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Brenthoven said:
The feeling is mutual. I would take a hydrochloric acid bath before I rooted for the Whioux. And I'm HAZMAT certified, so I know what the result would be. ;)
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I don't have a problem with that.
 
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Dirty said:
No one does. Even Gopher fans would be glad to get Brent off of this planet.
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Since you are still around, I have often considered that path. Less painful existence for me.
 
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4four4 said:
So CC has more fans attending their games than DU? Who would have thought.
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I'm hoping this is a joke? Although, I guess not being from here you might not know why it's sort of obvious that CC would outsell DU. One issue, of course, is that CC's average attendance is at or possibly slightly above the capacity of Magness. Plus, I'm sorry to say, nobody shows the **** up for DU games. There is, of course, quite a lot more to do on a Friday or Saturday night in Denver than in Colorado Springs, but still, it annoys me how few people show up to DU games.
 
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duper said:
I'm hoping this is a joke? Although, I guess not being from here you might not know why it's sort of obvious that CC would outsell DU. One issue, of course, is that CC's average attendance is at or possibly slightly above the capacity of Magness. Plus, I'm sorry to say, nobody shows the **** up for DU games. There is, of course, quite a lot more to do on a Friday or Saturday night in Denver than in Colorado Springs, but still, it annoys me how few people show up to DU games.
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One other factor, at least from what I heard on the radio when we played CC a couple years ago out there, is that a lot of the fans are townies and not necessarily students, so you're likely to get a consistent fan basis even during winter break.
 
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Biddco said:
The NCHC has 6 of the top 10 total attendences in college hockey.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/air-136414-attendance-force.html
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North Dakota (249,501) had more fans go to their games than the combined attendance of Atlantic Hockey (214,114). That is interesting.

Attendance for NCHC teams: 998,661 (124,833 average/team)
Attendance for B1G teams: 734,327 (146,865 average/team)
Attendance for WCHA teams: 452,611 (50,290 average/team)

It will be interesting to see how those numbers change following next season.
 
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4four4 said:
So CC has more fans attending their games than DU? Who would have thought.
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DU has more sellouts than CC, charges two to five times more for tickets [cheapest per game tickets @ DU $18 up $1,500 for one season Gold Club pass], probably has triple the number of season ticket holders and owns the arena on campus.

CC has larger capacity 7,300 vs 6,000 & has many 2 for 1 ticket specials and $5 ticket nights.

CC hockey is also the biggest draw in a town of 500,000 while DU hockey is far down the list [8th or 10th] in a city of 2.5 million.

DU probably draws its attendance from a pretty steady base of 100,000 people. CC probably draws their crowds from a base of around 200,000.

Plus Magness can be expanded by 2,500 more sideline seats if the needed to expand the arena [see left side of photo].

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dggoddard said:
DU has more sellouts than CC, charges two to five times more for tickets [cheapest tickets $18 up $3,000 for Gold Club], probably has double or more season ticket holders and owns the arena on campus.

Plus Magness can be expanded by 2,500 more sideline seats if the need to expand the arena.
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Maybe you can answer this. Why are some of the best seats (location) at Magness essentially folding chairs? They spent $75 million on the facility (that is what I was told anyway, not sure how much of that went towards Magness)...you would think they could have put in nicer seats. If they ever decide to expand the arena, I would hope that they would put nice seats in.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
Maybe you can answer this. Why are some of the best seats (location) at Magness essentially folding chairs? They spent $75 million on the facility (that is what I was told anyway, not sure how much of that went towards Magness)...you would think they could have put in nicer seats. If they ever decide to expand the arena, I would hope that they would put nice seats in.
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The folding chairs are in the first few rows that are moved when the hockey arena is converted to a basketball arena. You can see them moved during this time lapse video. It costs $500,000 to convert Magness Arena from Hockey to Hoops each year and the conversion is done 120 times per year.

http://letsgodu.blogspot.com/2010/02/magness-makeover-ice-to-hoops-floor.html

The Ritchie Center cost $77 million in 1998 dollars. I believe the Magness family gave $10 million and Dan Ritchie gave a significant sum but there is still a note on the facility. So the Ritchie Center was never paid off in full and quite frankly quite a few things in Magness Arena were done on the cheap. Lighting, sound, chairs, no luxury boxes, too many end zone seats and decor. But the plan was always to knock out the far wall and finish the arena at some point in the future. Its a good thing they built the arena when they did because it would probably cost $120 million today, Magness has since passed away, Ritchie has moved on, the economy tanked, DU would almost certainly be in the "new" WCHA and CC or UND would of won the 2005 NC.

DU has hockey locker room renovation coming up within the year.

Magness was built with private dollars at a time when DU didn't have any billionaire alums to tap. Considering that the two largest donors were Ritchie and Magness, who weren't DU alums, its a miracle it was built at all. I would rank the facility excellent for hoops, offices, press boxes, swimming, working out and "fitting in on campus - Its a beautiful building. For hockey, they probably need to pump in $20-40 million for the scoreboard, lighting, sound and finish the seating.

All things being equal, we're luck to have the facility on campus and it certainly has enough bells & whistles to attract recruits.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
North Dakota (249,501) had more fans go to their games than the combined attendance of Atlantic Hockey (214,114). That is interesting.

Attendance for NCHC teams: 998,661 (124,833 average/team)
Attendance for B1G teams: 734,327 (146,865 average/team)
Attendance for WCHA teams: 452,611 (50,290 average/team)

It will be interesting to see how those numbers change following next season.
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If RIT's rink wasn't so small in capacity (heck, they sold out RPI-RIT this past year during the quarter break, which was the day after USA thanksgiving), you wouldn't be able to say that. ;)

I bet if they played all their home games at BCA, they could give yioux a run for your money.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
If RIT's rink wasn't so small in capacity (heck, they sold out RPI-RIT this past year during the quarter break, which was the day after USA thanksgiving), you wouldn't be able to say that. ;)

I bet if they played all their home games at BCA, they could give yioux a run for your money.
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I can't tell if you are trying to be serious or not...
 
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