For several years our UNH group, spearheaded by my wife, has purchased
tickets as a group for the Worcester Regionals.  Because of the uncertainty
of where UNH might wind up this year, Providence, Worcester or (egads!) out
west, most people have decided to hold off on buying tickets until the
selections and seedings are announced.

The other day there was a phone message from the group ticket person at the
Centrum inquiring if we were still interested in group tickets and also
letting us know that the two session package price had dropped from $50 to
$44.

Folks, we are two short weeks away from the regionals and they are still out
there pumping ticket sales.  This indicates to me that tickets are not going
fast and unless there are some attractive matchups at both Providence and
Worcester, the arenas may not be close to full.

There has been a lot of talk on this board and over on USCHO about potential
seedings but, if I were a betting man, I would wager that teams with big
followings - Maine, UNH, BC, Cornell - will stay East regardless.  The NC$$
cannot permit anything else or they will take a financial bath.

Greg Ambrose

> From: Clay Satow <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:22:11 -0800
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Iona Dropping Hockey
>
> --- "Benjamin J. Flickinger" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> As long as the 16 team tournament generates $$$, don't worry about it being
>> reduced back to 12.
>
> Fair 'nuf Ben.
>
> It will be interesting to see what the figures are this year.  It's not at all
> clear to me that
> the sixteen team tournament that will generate more revenue than the 12 team.
> The big profit
> comes from the FF, and that won't change at all.  As for the regionals, you
> have 50% more games,
> but that could be more than offset by the fact that you have four venues
> instead of two.  I have
> doubts that the Western Regionals make money as it is, and adding games may
> make actually increase
> losses.
>
> More cities get to host, but it's not as good a deal for the city -- instead
> of five or six teams'
> fans eating, drinking, and staying in hotels, you have three or four.  If it
> were a good deal for
> cities, then they wouldn't need to have the Western regionals at campus sites.
>
> Clay
>
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