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Wisconsin Hockey XXIX: Yes, this is the Rumpel Rink!

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I ordered my season tickets this morning. I was happy when they decided to sell hockey tickets two weeks later than football tickets, because there are so many opportunities to promote it. They did pretty much the bare minimum, and are continuing not to care at all. Even the "hockey tickets are on sale tomorrow" reminder email was sent out at 11:30 last night. The UW Badgers twitter and facebook feeds are just a bunch of pictures of Camp Randall Stadium right now (seriously). The UW-Madison social media outlets are silent now, but they sure do their best to make sure the drunk kids who waste their money on football tickets every year and don't care get their tickets along with (and instead of) the thousands of students who will actually support the football team.

If they don't sell out (yes, there's still plenty of time), I will consider it a miserable failure, even considering the past few years.
 
I saw they tweeted out that they had sold 600 so far. Any guess on what that equates to section-wise? If rows are 15 wide, that's 40 rows. I'm guessing that'd be a little less than two lower bowl sections.

Edit: on the ticket info page, it says the student section is a maximum of 2,000 seats. So they've sold about 30%.
 
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GBBadger14 said:
I saw they tweeted out that they had sold 600 so far. Any guess on what that equates to section-wise? If rows are 15 wide, that's 40 rows. I'm guessing that'd be a little less than two lower bowl sections.

Edit: on the ticket info page, it says the student section is a maximum of 2,000 seats. So they've sold about 30%.
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GBBadger14 said:
I saw they tweeted out that they had sold 600 so far. Any guess on what that equates to section-wise? If rows are 15 wide, that's 40 rows. I'm guessing that'd be a little less than two lower bowl sections.

Edit: on the ticket info page, it says the student section is a maximum of 2,000 seats. So they've sold about 30%.
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We'll see how it plays out in the next couple of months, but I'm guessing it's a better pace than last year. I don't remember what the exact number from last year was, though.

Each lower bowl section only goes back to O or maybe P, so it's closer to 15 rows deep.
 
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From what I remember from the numbers they showed at the summit, 600 isn't bad compared to last year... esp this early... but it's pretty bad compared to even a few years ago.
 
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The-C2 said:
From what I remember from the numbers they showed at the summit, 600 isn't bad compared to last year... esp this early... but it's pretty bad compared to even a few years ago.
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Do you remember any more about what the numbers looked like? And did that include ticket sales over time? I'm curious.
 
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WiscDC said:
Do you remember any more about what the numbers looked like? And did that include ticket sales over time? I'm curious.
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Its been awhile but I believe they had the last three years of total student tickets sold and avg student attendance. The graphs for both looked like a 1/x graph... I believe that 3 years ago was like 3.5 to 4 ish times more than last years.
 
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Madison Capitols schedule was released today. By my quick look there are up to six conflicts with the Badgers being at home on the same night. November 28 (Ferris State), December 12 (U.S. NTDP U18), January 29/30/31 (Minnesota) and February 20/21 (Michigan State).

The Minnesota series could end up being Thursday/Friday, and in that case there would only be a conflict for one night of that series. Obviously the NTDP game is an exhibition.
 
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Chuck Schwartz said:
Madison Capitols schedule was released today. By my quick look there are up to six conflicts with the Badgers being at home on the same night. November 28 (Ferris State), December 12 (U.S. NTDP U18), January 29/30/31 (Minnesota) and February 20/21 (Michigan State).

The Minnesota series could end up being Thursday/Friday, and in that case there would only be a conflict for one night of that series. Obviously the NTDP game is an exhibition.
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I suppose that's about as good as we can ask for, considering the USHL (sensibly) likes to have its games on weekends.
 
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I actually like that USHL schedule. Several sunday games after the NFL is done, plus both weekends in April when I still want to watch hockey! Going to try to make 10 games next season.
 
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Gandalf the Red said:
I actually like that USHL schedule. Several sunday games after the NFL is done, plus both weekends in April when I still want to watch hockey! Going to try to make 10 games next season.
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I was especially hoping for some home games after the Badgers are done! I'm glad that there are a few of those.
 
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Joe Pavelski gets a sign is his hometown of Plover.

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They should have moved the middle chunk of text slightly higher to leave an opportunity to add "Stanley Cup Champion" or "2018 Gold Medal" in case they happen.
 
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Bonin21 said:
They should have moved the middle chunk of text slightly higher to leave an opportunity to add "Stanley Cup Champion" and "2018 Gold Medal" when they happen.
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I fixed your post for you.
 
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These will probably be the best months for badger fans until after next season!
 
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