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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 2915701, member: 549"] [URL='https://www.courant.com/sports/hockey/hc-sp-uconn-hockey-attendance-turnstile-20181106-story.html']While some question size of new UConn hockey arena, data shows attendance is slipping[/URL] (more details in article): >>When UConn’s Board of Trustees approved plans recently to spend $45 million on a 2,500-seat hockey arena on campus, many Huskies fans asked the same question: Will that really be enough seats? The answer, based on a review of UConn hockey attendance figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request: It’s complicated. Since joining the Hockey East conference in 2014-15, UConn men’s hockey has never drawn an announced attendance of fewer than 2,500 fans to a game at the XL Center. However, the number of fans who actually show up to games has typically been much lower than the announced figure (which counts tickets distributed, not tickets used). Over the past four years, the number of tickets scanned at the XL Center entrance has been less than 2,500 on 15 occasions, including nine times out of 15 games last season. In other words, more than half of the Huskies’ crowds in 2017-18 would have fit into the new, smaller building.<< [/QUOTE]