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Providence College on the road to Tampa

Re: Providence College on the road to Tampa

Except they are being stingy with their allotment. We went through Ticketmaster to by a good block of seats because PC would not sell to non-season ticket holders.

I don't know if every team does it the same way, but Lowell gives season ticket holders exclusive access to their allotment through Monday, then opens it up to the public Tuesday morning.
 
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Except they are being stingy with their allotment. We went through Ticketmaster to by a good block of seats because PC would not sell to non-season ticket holders.

How many do you need?
 
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Here's the email season ticket holders got...

Season ticket holders have the exclusive opportunity to purchase tickets
through the Providence College Ticket Office beginning today and ending Wednesday, March 16th at noon.
Package options are listed below and allocated based on priority points.
Please note, the Friars are ONLY selling tickets as a part of a package,
which includes a ticket to both of the Semifinal games on Friday and the Championship game on Saturday.
All fans will be initially charged $78 and will be contacted if a price adjustment is required based on seat location.
Club Seats - $82
Center Loge - $78
Balcony - $50

Seems like a good deal if we make the championship but I'd expect alot of prime seats to be empty if we don't. I don't really feel comfortable with the possibility of an "adjustment" either. I'm also a little ****ed at the hundreds of tickets available on vividseats. whats the deal with that?
 
While I won't guarantee 100% accuracy here are a few facts about teams getting NCAA basketball and hockey bids in the same year

It appears it has been done 75 times since 1948. With the expansion of both tourneys it has become fairly common. For the first 40 years 1948-88 it had happened 10 times by 5 schools: Michigan State did it 3 times, twice in the last years of that era. Michigan, BC, and PC did it twice and Northeastern once. Providence was the first eastern school to do it in 1964, making them the third school to do it. 1964 was the first time multiple teams made it, which was pretty impressive since the NCAA hockey tourney had only 4 teams.

In the last 30 years its happened 65 times with only '91 and '03 not producing any team getting a duel bid. By and large duel bids are dominated by Big Ten schools. 5 schools (Mich, Mich St, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio State) have done it a total of 45 times. If you ignore Notre Dane since they appear to be geographically challenged in aligning their sports conference, the only other team considered western by hockey standards to do it is Miami of Ohio. Michigan State is the overall leader doing it 15 times, Michigan (13) and Wisconsin (10) are the top 3 schools in accomplishing this feat.

For Eastern schools 9 schools have done it a total of 23 times. This assumes Yale makes it this year, the Ivy League has 4 separate schools accomplish this feat, Yale this year, Harvard last, also Cornell and Princeton, each doing it one time. Northeastern and Vermont each did it once, BU 3 times. Overall tied for 4th behind the Big Ten schools are BC and PC, each accomplishing it now 7 times

With doing it for the 3rd year in a row what Providence accomplished is still a fairly rare feat. Stringing 3 years of duel bids in a row. The leader at 5 years 92-96 is Michigan. BC is next with a 4 year streak 04-07. Mich. St has 2 3 year streaks, Wisconsin did it 04-06. PC is only school with an active streak.

Providence is the smallest school to have accomplished this feat.

Most schools to do it in one year is 4, most likely this year, first done in '94 by 4 Big Ten schools, '01 with Mich St, Wisconsin, PC and BC. BC and Mich St were part of the '07 quartet which included Miami and Notre Dame

Did not look into it to see if anyone else had a hand in accomplishing this feat at multiple schools, but this fact jumped out PC head basketball coach Ed Cooley obviously is part of PC's streak, he was also the BC assistant in the first 3 years of their 4 year streak.
 
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I keep hearing PC fans thinking they are going to get Worcester over QU....why would Quinnipiac have to travel farther while being the better team?

Unless the Q finishes first overall they're going to Albany. The difference between Albany and Worcester for Quinnipiac is small compared to Providence.
 
I heard from someone who would know that Walman is out for the season and likely will be having shoulder surgery. Real bummer. On a better note. Ruggiero played well and showed good speed. Looked like he belonged out there.

With a follow up tweet by Divver this was probably either a real possibility or seriously discussed just that like most players he wanted play through it.

He only scored 2 goals since his returns suggesting he was far less than 100%. So for a significant portion (22 games) of season Providence has played without him or a restricted version of the early season player
 
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With a follow up tweet by Divver this was probably either a real possibility or seriously discussed just that like most players he wanted play through it.

He only scored 2 goals since his returns suggesting he was far less than 100%. So for a significant portion (22 games) of season Providence has played without him or a restricted version of the early season player

I like to see Ruggiero getting playing time over Vincent due to Ruggiero's offensive game. We will see what happens if there are any more openings.
 
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Wow. Hate that such a game ended like that. I mean, it was going to be a sloppy goal or bizarre bounce probably, but not that.

Good luck until we meet again. If that's this year, hope they make extra popcorn, gonna be a heck of a battle!
 
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With Hockey East being as strong as it is this could be a repeat of the Anaheim Frozen 4 with 3 HE teams and Mich St who lost in the first game setting up an all HE final.....having records like this have to help recruiting future stars......the placement of the HE teams in the NCAA will be, to say it right, interesting. Since the California games the brackets seem to have been adjusted so that would not happen again
 
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I thought PC was terrible throughout the game and didn't have their legs. Passes were to guy's feet or behind them all night. The PC forechecking was awful and they probably deserved to lose this game 4-1 or 5-1 with an average goalie. Ellis was out of his mind.
 
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I thought PC was terrible throughout the game and didn't have their legs. Passes were to guy's feet or behind them all night. The PC forechecking was awful and they probably deserved to lose this game 4-1 or 5-1 with an average goalie. Ellis was out of his mind.


can you just not.
 
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