At 8:55 PM 3/18/96, Sean Pickett wrote: >Mike Machnik wrote: >> Only a huge Maine contingent saved the Sat turnout from being below >> what LP drew. > >I disagree completely. This year attendance for the final only >increased by 731, which, assuming every one was a Maine fan, is >hardly a "huge contingent". Well, Saturday night, Lake Placid drew 8,300, and the FleetCenter drew 8,969. I do think that the difference of 669 was due mainly to more Maine fans than the night before. There seemed to be many more people from Maine, which makes sense since I had surmised that if Maine made the championship game, more Maine fans would have gone than on Friday. >I am sure some Boston Univeristy and Lowell fans did not attend the >second night, however, I am also sure that there were more Providence >fans than the night before. I'm sure there were too, but Maine seemed to have a much bigger contingent than they had Friday, thus my comment above. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] *HMM* 11/13/93 >> Co-owner of the College Hockey Lists at University of Maine System << ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.