There is a lottery that you can enter to buy tickets directly. This is the
best chance the "regular joe/jane" has. This year you can apply online. You
only get charged if you get tickets, I believe. You just hold them, and if
Maine doesn't go you sell them to a fan of another team and get your money
back out of it.

-Cory

-----Original Message-----
From: The Maine Hockey Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Matt Dewkett
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 12:48 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Frozen Four Ticket Policy Rant


To be honest Nonni, even if the University put up just
a pair of tickets for people that are below the donor
level and did a separate lottery for them that would
be satisfactory.  It is the fact that there is
virtually no chance for the "regular joe/jane" to get
tickets from the University that gets me ripped.  I
would just like to see a portion of tickets separate
from students and donors available by lottery to the
general public.

I also wonder where the donors were in 2002 as there
were plenty of tickets available for St. Paul.  There
was no lottery, etc.  I just called up the ticket
office and got them.  This seems to be the case when
the Frozen Four is outside a comfortable travel range.
 To me if you are a donor you should be hardcore to go
to the games wherever they are, not just in our back
yard where it is convenient.  If there was a
percentage of tickets available for students based
upon attendance percentages, lets give donor tickets
based upon attendance/acceptance of tickets to the St.
Paul games.

Again, I completely understand the financial
importance of donors to the program and the
University.  However, I feel that the way the release
was worded it was no different than scapling tickets.
Give us more money to increase your chances.  Someone
who is below the donor level might as well save their
pennies and put it towards next years 50-50 drawings.
You have a better chance of winning...

My $.02,

Matt


--- nonni daly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Holly Robinson" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> > to add to the rant.....
> >
> > ...and doesn't all the money I've spent on UMaine
> hockey tickets over the
> years count toward my donation total????
> >
> > I also felt that it sounded a bit like extortion.
>
> Extortion be damned!  A whole lot of people have
> spent a whole lot of money
> on hockey (and other sport) season tickets over the
> years, not to mention
> additions and enhancements to the Alfond and the
> purchase of luxury boxes
> and dasher boards -- how do you think the department
> runs?  On money given
> out by the state?  Oh, c'mon ... really!
>
> The department has a chance to use a limited number
> of tickets to reward
> donors, as should be the case -- and, no, I am not a
> donor at that level --
> and has set aside a percentage of tickets for
> students based on student
> attendance at games.  That certainly is more than
> fair to the students and
> to the donors.  This kind of palaver reminds me of
> the students who keep
> referring to themselves as the program's True Fans,
> because they go to games
> and scream and a lot of other people don't.  Just
> buying some hockey tickets
> or screaming doesn't qualify someone as more than
> anything but a person who
> buys some hockey tickets or screams.
>
> Is your tongue still firmly planted in your cheek
> ... ??


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Matthew R. Dewkett
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