>January 28, 2004 >FRIDAY NIGHT HOCKEY VS. NEW HAMPSHIRE >DOORS OPEN AT 6:00 P.M. FOR 8:00 P.M. START The concessions and store will be open ;-) >The University of Maine men's ice hockey team will be hosting New Hampshire >for two games this weekend. Friday night's game will start at 8:00 p.m. to >accommodate the first nationally televised game from Alfond Arena. The game >can be seen nationally on CSTV (DirecTV channel 610), and locally Adelphia >Cable will show the game on Channel 12 in the Bangor area and Channel 9 in >the Lewiston/Augusta/Waterville area. Please check local listings for >availability. On the University of Maine campus, CSTV has recently been >added on channel 4. > >For Friday night's game, the doors will open at the usual time of 6:00 p.m. >for the 8:00 p.m. start. Fans are asked to "Go Blue" and wear their blue >Black Bear gear as the team will be donning their Columbia blue alternate >jerseys. All fans in attendance on Friday night will also receive a free >pair of ThunderStix courtesy of WZON - AM620. > >For Saturday evening's game the puck drops at 7:00 p.m. and will be >televised locally on WABI-TV5 (Bangor) and WMTW-TV 8 (Portland). The first >1,000 fans at the game on Saturday night will receive a free megaphone >courtesy of Unicel, ... Can you hear me now? :-) > ..., the official cellular phone service of the Black Bears. Now there's a balancing act ... UMaine just switched from Unicel to the other carrier in town, but Unicel retains the title. I'm not complaining, as I'm a happy Unicel customer, but it is a stretch, isn't it?! ?-) Can you say BIG series? cheers, wayne