James - Most Frozen Four venues are sold out, often well ahead of time.  Exceptions were last year (80-90% full and a few years ago when they tried Ford Field in Detroit (indoor football stadium in a ghost-town).  They normally play in an NHL rink with 18-20,000 capacity.

They've kept the price at about $200 for a few years, just this year raising the cost of lower bowl tickets about $30 (15%) for the set of 3 games.

Perhaps you are thinking of the NCAA Regional site games?  They are often sparsely attended.

That said, there are a hundred or two Maine jerseys at every Frozen Four even when Maine is not, and many hundred when Maine plays.

With the economic downturn, the NCAA has changed from selling a chance for tickets in April to an online pick-your-seats more or less in October and has added an online facility to buy-sell tickets.   Both more friendly to patrons and the latter eliminates scalping for those that know about the facility.

Still, cost is a strong consideration every year for me.  Have you seen Football and Basketball prices?  Hockey is not in that league!

Cheers, Wayne

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Acheson <[log in to unmask]> wrote, in part:
I guess they should license the players' likenesses with a video game company to defray costs!!!

Who could possibly take their families to these games at those prices and why haven't they figured out that they would make more money by selling a hundred times more tickets at one fifth of those prices?
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