Aaron Lindman wrote:
>This year the Gophers and the Badgers face off in the 2 and 3 seed game
>in Milwaukee. The game in scheduled for 2:00p on Friday. Does anyone know
>if there is any talk of moving the game to 7:00p to accommodate all the
>Badgers fans (home area) and the Minnesota fans. Right now, CC is
>scheduled to take on the winner of SCSU/MTU at 7:00p. I would make a safe
>assumption that badger fans and gopher fans make up the bulk of the
>tickets. So, it would almost benefit the arena to move it to later so
>more of the fans could get there (ie: from work and other daytime things)
 
Yeah, but...
SCSU or MTU will have played Thursday night, and it wouldn't be fair to
make them play a rested CC team less than 24 hours later.  Thus, the CC
game should be the evening game.  I don't think fairness should be
sacrificed to such an extent for attendance purposes.  (Not that that means
the WCHA won't do it;  After all, they're stupid enough to screw up their
chances in the NCAA by not moving the Final Five...)
 
And in another post:
>I wish ESPN would try to accommodate college hockey fans a little better
>and schedule the national championship game for the evening rather than
>early afternoon. i am not entirely positive that it is ESPN's doing, but
>I would think so.  If it were Saturday evening more people could get
>together for the game. I would assume the reason behind this is that
>there is a baseball game scheduled or something, but for one night, i
>think the national spotlight should be on college hockey.
 
But the problem is that it wouldn't be.  It's not a baseball game, but an
NC$$ basketball semi-final that causes the conflict.  The hockey final was
moved to Saturday afternoon so that it might not be completely eclipsed by
the pituitary-ball games.  (Ask Michigan fans about this...)
 
Pam Sweeney
Go Gophers!!!
Ski-U-Mah!!!
 
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