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Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Shirtless Guy said:
I know its not Houghton...but $35/person isn't bad...I paid $162 for 2 tickets for the weekend last year...
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To put it in perspective, it costs $35 for an SRO ticket to a Gophers regular season game. And if that game happens to be against WI, tUMD, MI, etc? It's more.

$35 for a session ticket? I'd take that all day.
 
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HuskyNation said:
I'm calling it now, the BG/MSU game will draw less than 1000.
Tech/Ferris has the possibility of a crowd 6x larger.

Side note: I heard Dirk say yesterday Tech would play at 4 next Friday. CHN has the Tech/Ferris game as 7:30.
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They're doing this to mess with the girls' bedtimes. It's a vast Western Bias conspiracy. Or something... :)
 
Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

2014 - Ferris was the #1 seed but played the late game in Grand Rapids
2015 - Mn State was the #1 seed but played the late game in St. Paul

I think the writing is pretty much on the wall. And I'll make the call right now that Tech has more fans in the building than Ferris.
 
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TECHFAN said:
I understand why they're doing it but I think the WCHA is making a mistake with forcing people to buy session passes. IMO, they don't have the necessary demand to force people to buy tickets for games they have minimal interest in. I'd love to see Tech play in person for the first time in 11 years but I'm not that interested in spending up $70+ dollars to watch one game, and $140+ dollars with no guarantee Tech makes it to the championship game. I think it also decreases the likelihood of local, unaffiliated fans checking it out. The vast majority of Grand Rapids area residents have never even heard of the WCHA. Forcing them To pony up significant money for unfamiliar teams makes no sense.
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Because trying to clear the building between games is not possible unless you build in more time. And you've got a great opportunity to get a cheap ticket from the fans of whoever loses the first semifinal, they'll try to dump their weekend passes on the way out of the arena and you can take full advantage. Of course that does nothing to help the league, but that doesn't sound like your top priority.
 
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Brenthoven said:
To put it in perspective, it costs $35 for an SRO ticket to a Gophers regular season game. And if that game happens to be against WI, tUMD, MI, etc? It's more.

$35 for a session ticket? I'd take that all day.
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Not anymore. Price was reduced to $10 due to lack of interest.
 
Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

So Jim Dahl published his breakdown of whats left to be played, 9 teams are in and 7 teams are fighting for however many remaining at-large spots.
So Michigan Tech really wants 4 AQs to come from those nine teams (and a few more):
NCHC: North Dakota, St. Cloud State, Denver
ECAC: Quinnipiac, Harvard
HEA: Providence, Boston College, Massachusetts-Lowell
B1G: Michigan

Jim has Michigan Tech in 1% of the time if they lose to Ferris State
14% if they lose in championship. In a vacuum losing to BGSU is a little better than MSUM but probably not enough to matter since I doubt we miss by a tiny margin.

I will work through this a little more but some combination of Michigan winning B1G, Northeastern not beating BC, UMD losing both games, StL/Darmouth not winning ECAC.
Need to work out how many of those have to happen to get Michigan Tech in.
The good news is that chalk except Michigan Tech losing the final gets MTU in, so while the odds are 14% of the time for an at-large going 1-1 this weekend, it is the options that on paper are some of the most likely. I'm pretty sure 2 of the above 4 can happen and MTU is in. The problem is while chalk would have Northeastern and UMD losing, those 2 are on a roll and Michigan winning the B1G just seems questionable...not to mention UMD gets 2 shots to get enough to overcome MTU.

EDIT: link - http://test.collegehockeyranked.com/forecast/pwrtournament.php
 
Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Confirmed from Mel Pearson Show, Michigan Tech will play Ferris State at 7:30 PM Friday.
 
Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

All that time I wasted on the Tech hockey guide calculator, and I could have just read this post!

Good job on the calculator though.

Shirtless Guy said:
So Jim Dahl published his breakdown of whats left to be played, 9 teams are in and 7 teams are fighting for however many remaining at-large spots.
So Michigan Tech really wants 4 AQs to come from those nine teams (and a few more):
NCHC: North Dakota, St. Cloud State, Denver
ECAC: Quinnipiac, Harvard
HEA: Providence, Boston College, Massachusetts-Lowell
B1G: Michigan

Jim has Michigan Tech in 1% of the time if they lose to Ferris State
14% if they lose in championship. In a vacuum losing to BGSU is a little better than MSUM but probably not enough to matter since I doubt we miss by a tiny margin.

I will work through this a little more but some combination of Michigan winning B1G, Northeastern not beating BC, UMD losing both games, StL/Darmouth not winning ECAC.
Need to work out how many of those have to happen to get Michigan Tech in.
The good news is that chalk except Michigan Tech losing the final gets MTU in, so while the odds are 14% of the time for an at-large going 1-1 this weekend, it is the options that on paper are some of the most likely. I'm pretty sure 2 of the above 4 can happen and MTU is in. The problem is while chalk would have Northeastern and UMD losing, those 2 are on a roll and Michigan winning the B1G just seems questionable...not to mention UMD gets 2 shots to get enough to overcome MTU.

EDIT: link - http://test.collegehockeyranked.com/forecast/pwrtournament.php
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Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Shirtless Guy said:
I know its not Houghton...but $35/person isn't bad...I paid $162 for 2 tickets for the weekend last year...
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Not to mention they have offered a couple of opportunities throughout the year for bogo which drops the price to $17.25 per session. Pretty good deal if you ask me.
 
Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Odd feeling this week to win the MacNaughton cup and be ranked 12th in the country but still know that we have to keep winning just to make the NCAAs. I'd really like to see how this team does in the NCAA tourney.


Some Mel P show notes for those that haven't listened:

Notes from Mel Pearson show:
Mel had been thinking about getting the fans down to the ice to celebrate with the team
Great for seniors to celebrate last game on this ice, they didn't want to leave the ice

Jackson/Blacklock haven't played lately -
Both have looked really good in practice. All of our players are looking good in practice. Any can come in and play.
The team is on a pretty good role, hard to take people out.
Both players fit big into our future plans.
Mel got an email from Jim Warden, great goalie at Tech in 70s. He said practice is where they really challenged each other, this team has a lot of those qualities.
Mel a little concerned last week, with Spring Break, but great practices last week. Jim's email helped.

How many players can go to Final Five?
Everyone can go. We're allowed to dress 18 skaters and 3 goalies. The whole team will go.

What is decision on jerseys, do we have a say?
Interesting, 2nd half of year dark. AK wore gold/white. Some have jersey's they like to wear. Not sure, conference call at noon for final five logistics.

Do you see changes to the conferences in the off-season?
AZ State sometime after this hockey season. Schedule is so far out now, have to do it soon.
Haven't heard anything as far as leagues shifting.

What were recruits thoughts/comments?
loved atmosphere, loved the pace of play
They liked the community, and talking with local about hockey/community
Mel was walking around with a recruit yesterday, buildings locked up for spring break, called public safety, and public safety guy all excited to head to Grand Rapids, great to see

Hard to create chemistry, can do team bonding etc, but needs to be natural.
Chemistry on this team is excellent. We have meals every now and then, love player interaction.
Real good bond on this team.
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Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

<3_Blizzard said:
Not to mention they have offered a couple of opportunities throughout the year for bogo which drops the price to $17.25 per session. Pretty good deal if you ask me.
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Earlier in the year I bought the package deal for all games at 68 dollars total and that included all the internet fees.. got great seats.

Shirtless it looks like jim Dahl has 14% chance of us getting a 13 spot, I'm assuming that is if you win 2, 49% at 14, same assumption and then 38% of a 15. So is this that correct, win 2 and get one of those, or can you win 1 and still have a 14% chance of a 13?. Doesn't on the face of it seem to make sense.
 
Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

manurespreader said:
Earlier in the year I bought the package deal for all games at 68 dollars total and that included all the internet fees.. got great seats.

Shirtless it looks like jim Dahl has 14% chance of us getting a 13 spot, I'm assuming that is if you win 2, 49% at 14, same assumption and then 38% of a 15. So is this that correct, win 2 and get one of those, or can you win 1 and still have a 14% chance of a 13?. Doesn't on the face of it seem to make sense.
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Win 2, MTU is in as AQ and here is the breakdown of finish:
13 - 56%, 14 - 38%, 15 - 6%
Win 1, MTU is in 14% of the time as at-large:
13 - 12%, 14 - 49%, 15 - 38%, 16 - <1%
We probably have a chance of finishing 13 and 14 while being in or out depending on other AQs.
ie, for the 12% of the time we go 1-1 and finish 13th, we can be in and out.
 
Re: Season 95, Vol 2: Michigan Tech '15-'16

Are people trying to get tickets in the same general area? Or do we know where the band will be?

Looking to pick up my tickets today
 
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