Frozen Four ticket advice please
I'm going to be in St. Paul on the 5th. I wasn't planning on going to the games but if I'm going to be there anyway hell yeah I'm gon' do it.
Grab the best tickets I can find on StubHub now (need 2) or will there be a better opportunity from the athletic department? I have no idea what I'm doing, new to this...
Buy for the first session for sure, but hold off on the second, not just because of 50/50 chance of making it there, but also because you can clean up on cheap tickets from the two schools that don't. The year I went to the FF, a bunch of folks got super cheap tickets for the final by just waiting around outside the arena and waiting for the fans who wanted to go home. YMMV.
Follow-up advice: If you strike out near the arena, go check out the bars. Lotta ticked off fans drowning their sorrows who will dump their tickets for whatever they can get.
March 25th, 2018 at 11:53 PM ^
did you burn it down in an insurance fire? labor issues?
From Red Square to Sugar Hill?
Yeah, I'll only be in town on Thursday anyway. Was wondering if I should just take whatever tickets are on StubHub now (that I assume were just bought up by brokers from the NCAA?) or will more be "released" when the teams are set. Will the athletic department put some up for sale or will they all be spoken for by season ticket holders?
Wait, you're going to randomly be in St. Paul, MN on April 5th? What are the chances?
So, sort of random but mostly lucky.
Is that you, Steve Carell?
I was looking at past attendance records and last year they had the two games listed separately with two different attendance figures. Looks like they sold them separately until 2006, then sold them combined-only, then last year they're listed as separate attendance figures again.
I recall someone telling me when they went a few years ago they made you exit the arena and re-enter, even if you had tickets for both games.
Both games Thursday are on the same ticket. They have played around with it, but right now one ticket gets you in to both games.
March 25th, 2018 at 11:44 PM ^
Go Blue, I hope you get a chance to see the games on TV. If there is a crowd shot, I will be the loud one wearing Maize.
For the most part, "OSU Hockey Fans" isn't really a thing that happens.
I live in the Twin Cities I want to take my 1 year old son to the game but WTF is this 9:30 pm start time all about?!?!?!? Fuck the west coast. Call me when they give a shit.
Well, if you live in the Twin Cities, it's an 8:30 start time.
The problem is that there are 2 games, and the start times have to be 3.5 hours apart (there's a minimum 53 minute break between games because they have to do a 15 minute resurface followed by a 20 minute warmup followed by a 15 minute resurface).
So the start times are 5:00 & 8:30. Any earlier would be too early for the first semifinal, any later would be too late for the second.
This is why I have wanted to go to a Saturday/Monday format for the Frozen Four just like the basketball tournament. No more worrying about the early start time of semifinal #1.