???? I had season tickets to Uconn football 8 years ago but not to hockey. I do go to as many games as possible but this coming Saturday I can't make it to Hartford so I was wondering if it's going to be on TV ?
Anthony wears a few hats at the Courant...and he covered Howie Dickenman's last game at Central Sat night.
They are a great time......
IMHO this will be more about supporting the program now and going forward. Creating a hostile atmosphere for the visiting team that in the future will make someone drop their head and say dejectedly "DAMN..we have to go play UCONN at home". Outsiders may say hockey is the 4th sport in the pecking order at UConn...I think it has and will continue to develope it's own rabid fan base of hockey diehards.
Oh, I have no doubt they'll sell well, probably the most of any hosting team this weekend. MC only holds about 15 people in their rink, Northeastern is on spring break and has few fans at all, and BU never sells well for this. If you crack 4K, you'll most certainly have the largest attendance number on the weekend.
To me it isn't about getting the prize for highest attendance as much as it is a chance to expose the Program/team to a new group of fans. Case in point...a friend of mine who's a HUGE hockey fan from Fairfield County called and asked how he could buy tickets..he wants to take his son.
It will be the third sport in the men's pecking order. However, it will eventually become the men's program with the most talent.
Unless current facilities are massively upgraded, no it won't. From a facilities (and resulting impact on recruiting) perspective, UConn is dominated by other Hockey East teams.
If you want to listen to Cav go to 22:30
I think end game will be 4500...expandable to 5K...they will play big games like BC, BU, PC, UNH, QU, ND in Hartford....
