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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