I wasn't at the game (I was on a bus from DC on the March for Life trip with Campus Ministry) but I know a lot of students are frustrated with the way athletics is handling ticket sales to students. I have never missed a game that I've been on campus for, and if I get shut out because of someone who leaves after a period and a half I'm going to be extremely aggravated. By making the tickets scarce, they've certainly upped the demand for them, but there's no real cohesion of the student section, and frankly, the seats are terrible. You can't see a large chunk of the ice. I've been to games at 9/10 Hockey East schools and I've never seen such bad management of game day environment. There's zero incentive for students to actually attend the game. We're constantly being yelled at for standing/yelling/etc and it's just not fun, plus sitting in front of the pep band while they play at the same time as the PA system is incredibly uncomfortable.
I mean, remember at the first game of the season when athletics waited until the end of the game to give out teeshirts? Yeah, students were initially instructed that their teeshirts from the game would guarantee them admission into Late Night Madness, but that didn't happen. All the students got their shirts and sprinted to alumni hall right after--in the middle of the third period. (I'm a senior and I just barely got in to LNM because I actually stayed to watch the end of the game.) I went to the BU game the next night--where they also gave out shirts--and it was a much better, controlled, happier environment. Something just isn't clicking at PC. It's really frustrating to watch Athletics make the same mistakes over and over again.
