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University of Maine 2024–2025: Freel-ing good

umhockey91 said:
Maine would have been well served to find a way to increase Alfond capacity for their current renovation.....even if it meant getting rid of the weird and iconic roof. Another 200 Club Level seats and another 1K regular seats would have added approx. $700K per season in revenue.
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I'm team "keep demand high." Maine just went through a decade or more of not being able to give away tickets. You want it to be a tough ticket because then people actually use them. If you know you can walk up and get a ticket any time, why buy in advance or get season tickets? And if you don't have a ticket in hand, it's easier to decide not to go.

If you have sold out your season day one, and you have a season ticket waiting list that is basically double capacity, that's probably a sign that prices are too low. Raise them, and there's some more revenue.
 
walrus said:
Him swinging at players, coaches and refs doesn't put him in a good light
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It appears as though he initially went out to break up the players if you look closely in this one. Then you see Appert, the coach of RPI, out there tangling with him. I don’t think this was one sided.

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He is 58 now, so I doubt he has the same snarl in him today. Let’s see how he does at Maine.

If Barr hadn’t have come along and John Torterella did then we would all be in favor of that. So I don’t think it being hockey that a coach gets out on the ice to get his players away to break up a fight then mixes it up with other coach after that coach came out after him is a big deal.

Just a hockey deal.
 
AMC said:
I'm team "keep demand high." Maine just went through a decade or more of not being able to give away tickets. You want it to be a tough ticket because then people actually use them. If you know you can walk up and get a ticket any time, why buy in advance or get season tickets? And if you don't have a ticket in hand, it's easier to decide not to go.

If you have sold out your season day one, and you have a season ticket waiting list that is basically double capacity, that's probably a sign that prices are too low. Raise them, and there's some more revenue.
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I agree with this.

I know Mainers don’t want to hear it, but raising ticket prices is a good idea to help with revenue sharing. I’ve been to other away venues where ticket prices were higher. A $5 increase across 4000 tickets(I am excluding students) is $20k per home game. That is $360k per season if we have 18 home games. That goes a long way towards revenue sharing to make Mainers competitive. Wouldn’t every Maine fan pay $5 per game extra to remain highly competitive? I think so too.
 
Sparkee said:
I agree with this.

I know Mainers don’t want to hear it, but raising ticket prices is a good idea to help with revenue sharing. I’ve been to other away venues where ticket prices were higher. A $5 increase across 4000 tickets(I am excluding students) is $20k per home game. That is $360k per season if we have 18 home games. That goes a long way towards revenue sharing to make Mainers competitive. Wouldn’t every Maine fan pay $5 per game extra to remain highly competitive? I think so too.
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I would if the aisles were wider so our knees don't hit the back of the hard plastic chair in front of me. I'm only 5-11.

Not to mention all of the bench seating has to go.....otherwise increasing prices for those seats makes little sense.
 
Sparkee said:
I agree with this.

I know Mainers don’t want to hear it, but raising ticket prices is a good idea to help with revenue sharing. I’ve been to other away venues where ticket prices were higher. A $5 increase across 4000 tickets(I am excluding students) is $20k per home game. That is $360k per season if we have 18 home games. That goes a long way towards revenue sharing to make Mainers competitive. Wouldn’t every Maine fan pay $5 per game extra to remain highly competitive? I think so too.
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They did raise prices a bit for this next season.
 
Sparkee said:
How much? My guess is about $5 per ticket per game.
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For my two seats in Section G there was a very small increase up from $261 per seat to $270 this season. I was expecting a bigger price hike honestly so that was a pleasant surprise.

I'd have to check but I believe they were $215 per seat in 21/22 when I got season tix again.
 
tylerzx2002 said:
For my two seats in Section G there was a very small increase up from $261 per seat to $270 this season. I was expecting a bigger price hike honestly so that was a pleasant surprise.

I'd have to check but I believe they were $215 per seat in 21/22 when I got season tix again.
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So last season there was 20 home games and you paid $261, which is $13.05 per game?

If so, then you tickets went up by less than $0.50 per game?

Something doesn’t make sense because NorthMike is saying closer to $5 per game increase.
 
Sparkee said:
So last season there was 20 home games and you paid $261, which is $13.05 per game?

If so, then you tickets went up by less than $0.50 per game?

Something doesn’t make sense because NorthMike is saying closer to $5 per game increase.
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That's why I was surprised they didn't do more than just a $9 increase per seat. Not sure where NorthMike is but at least for me under the students it wasn't much at all.

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amkirby10 said:
UNHs schedule out. Playing Maine 2x in Orono on December 5/6. First year in quite a while without a trip to Durham on the schedule for the Black Bears.
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UNH at Michigan State and Colgate at home so you can likely cross them both off the Maine schedule list.
 
Nice to see a player wearing 93. I doubt anyone would have the cajones to wear 99.

My guess for the schedule would be Indy teams, and maybe Pedo State since the series with them was canceled because of Covid. Vegas odds put the Nittany Lions as 4:1 favorites to win the natty. Maine is 10th at 25:1
 
Sparkee said:
So last season there was 20 home games and you paid $261, which is $13.05 per game?

If so, then you tickets went up by less than $0.50 per game?

Something doesn’t make sense because NorthMike is saying closer to $5 per game increase.
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When i get home Ill look and report back. Im thinking they went up a little more than that.
Im in section m, that a blue?? section.
 
ticapnews said:
Nice to see a player wearing 93. I doubt anyone would have the cajones to wear 99.

My guess for the schedule would be Indy teams, and maybe Pedo State since the series with them was canceled because of Covid. Vegas odds put the Nittany Lions as 4:1 favorites to win the natty. Maine is 10th at 25:1
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Yeah I'm thinking Penn State and LIU.
 
McGoverners said:
Disappointing. Hockey East really needs to figure out a schedule where rivals play 3x every year. Maine not playing in Durham is bad for both fan bases and the sport in general.
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Every school besides Maine and Vermont plays each other at least once, home and away. Unless Maine and Vermont concede their travel to accommodate a more balanced league schedule, you'll get situations like this.
 
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