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per the STrib:
The Big Ten’s associate commissioner, Jennifer Heppel, said the conference is pleased with its first year of hockey but acknowledged the league still has to win over many fans who long for the old days.
Heppel said the conference will conduct its year-end review soon and discuss possible changes or tweaks. Specifically, attendance for the inaugural conference tournament held at Xcel Energy Center was disappointing and a significant dropoff from the WCHA’s Final Five.
“It takes a long time to build an event,” Heppel said. “Sure, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I would have loved to see 18,000 people, but that’s unrealistic and it was unrealistic when we started selling tickets. I feel very, very good about the approach that we took in marketing to fans and as part of the respect of what the WCHA had built.”
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/255049491.html
Go Gophers!!
The Big Ten’s associate commissioner, Jennifer Heppel, said the conference is pleased with its first year of hockey but acknowledged the league still has to win over many fans who long for the old days.
Heppel said the conference will conduct its year-end review soon and discuss possible changes or tweaks. Specifically, attendance for the inaugural conference tournament held at Xcel Energy Center was disappointing and a significant dropoff from the WCHA’s Final Five.
“It takes a long time to build an event,” Heppel said. “Sure, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I would have loved to see 18,000 people, but that’s unrealistic and it was unrealistic when we started selling tickets. I feel very, very good about the approach that we took in marketing to fans and as part of the respect of what the WCHA had built.”
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/255049491.html
Go Gophers!!