KATIE writes:
> In today's St Paul Pioneer Press the MN Moose schedule was released...
> All of their home games thru January 16 will be played on Friday and
> Saturday nights.  Personally, I think that was a bad move, because,
> of course, Fri. and Sat. nights are when the Gophers play.  It's
 
Don't give up those Gopher tickets yet, Katie.
 
My impression of the Moose management has been that they've got a lot more
marketing savvy than THAT.  They know they'll probably be sharing fans with the
Gophers.  So, since I had both yesterday's paper (Gopher schedule) and today's
paper (Moose schedule) as well as 10 minutes to kill, I looked a little harder
at the schedules and found only these Home-game conflicts:
                       Gophers                       Moose
Friday November 4   St Cloud (7:05)              Houston (7:00)
Fri-Sat Dec 30-31   Mariucci Classic (4 & 7)     San Diego (7:00)
Sunday March 5      St. Cloud (2:05)             Kansas City (3:05)
 
  Also, the College Showcase Thanksgiving weekend is at the Civic Center, where
the Moose play, so you can see triple headers on Nov. 25-26:
1:00 Houston vs. Moose
5:00 Wisconsin vs. (MSU on Fri;  Mich on Sat)
7:00 Minnesota vs. (Mich on Fri;  MSU on Sat)
 
Too bad that they conflict with BOTH St. Cloud home games, but other than that,
they were pretty smart in scheduling for the weekends the Gophers will be out of
town.  They also scheduled a Sunday afternoon game every weekend in March, to
get the people in town for March Madness:  the HS tourney Mar 8-11 and the WCHA
tourney Mar 16-18.
 
Sorry to waste so much on a not-strictly college hockey topic.  But, hey, it's
the off-season.
 
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