If it is the case that the games are going to be basically back-to-back, what should we do about it?  
Have a hockey-l lunch prior to the first game on Thursday?
Move the dinner to Saturday before the championship game?

Thoughts?
-Pam

-----Original Message-----
>From: NE Hampton <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Feb 20, 2007 12:15 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Frozen Four semifinal start times
>
>Karen,
>
>It seems to me the early game was always at 12 or 1 PM local time with the
>second semi around 7 PM. There were a number of frozen fours I wanted to fly
>into Thursday morning, but the connections never arrived on time (e.g.
>Albany), which necessitated an extra night's drinking on Wednesday.
>
>My guess would be the contract is now handled by ESPNU rather than ESPN 2,
>and though ESPN 2 could put all sorts of basketball or other events between
>the two games, ESPNU is less endowed, so they want the games shown
>practically back-to-back. Of course, they never asked the Hockey-L cruise
>director about the timing.
>
>Nathan Hampton
>
>
>On 2/19/07 5:30 PM, "Karen Shadwick" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I am working on getting the dinner organized, and looking at a few
>> different sites (ESPN, St. Louis Frozen Four site, and Scottrade Center's
>> site), they all say that the games are at 3pm and 7pm CT. Have they been
>> scheduled this close together before? I looked up the last few years, and
>> they have always been 5 or 6 hours apart, not just 4. Makes me wonder who
>> all is involved in scheduling, and if they are trying to get people to buy
>> overpriced concessions rather than leaving the rink to get something for
>> dinner.
>> 
>> Karen Shadwick 
>> Colorado College '95
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