2024-25 University of North Dakota Hockey Season

[cberkas]

Just now, siouxforce19 said:

When it was in presale you could see what was available and there was basically nothing a couple weeks ago. 
 

I actually thought resale prices dropped. There’s some in the $200s now. Originally cheapest  when I first looked was $399. 

The $200 are the STO tickets that weren’t there last week when I was looking. 
 

[.357]

2 minutes ago, siouxforce19 said:

When it was in presale you could see what was available and there was basically nothing a couple weeks ago. 
 

I actually thought resale prices dropped. There’s some in the $200s now. Originally cheapest  when I first looked was $399. 

$399 for 1 ticket?

 

33 minutes ago, Humboldt said:

A good article on Damien Goddard starting LetsGoDU. Love him or hate him, he elevated the DU hockey program and made the rivalry fun. 

https://letsgodu.com/2024/09/12/celebrating-20-years-of-damien-goddards-brainchild-letsgodu/

I think it was him who recently described the UND fans' exodus to watch a series at DU as "...their annual pilgrimage to civilization". Funny.

[siouxforce19]

8 minutes ago, .357 said:

$399 for 1 ticket?

 

I think it was him who recently described the UND fans' exodus to watch a series at DU as "...their annual pilgrimage to civilization". Funny.

Yup, $399 is the cost of 1 ticket. 
 

Also heard the face value of a ticket to this game from the box office was pretty spendy. 

[.357]

25 minutes ago, siouxforce19 said:

Yup, $399 is the cost of 1 ticket. 
 

Also heard the face value of a ticket to this game from the box office was pretty spendy. 

How in the world do you guys afford such high prices?

How much does an average ticket at the Ralph cost (not when the Gophers are in town, but say an average team like WMU)?

[siouxforce19]

3 minutes ago, .357 said:

How in the world do you guys afford such high prices?

How much does an average ticket at the Ralph cost (not when the Gophers are in town, but say an average team like WMU)?

I don’t lol. Some fans are more willing to pay these high prices but I’m not one of them. Most single game tickets at REA average around $40-50. 

[cberkas]

6 minutes ago, .357 said:

How in the world do you guys afford such high prices?

How much does an average ticket at the Ralph cost (not when the Gophers are in town, but say an average team like WMU)?

The reality of being a fan of UND the best traveling fans in college hockey. If you look at the other games at ASU it’s way cheaper. 

[.357]

9 minutes ago, siouxforce19 said:

I don’t lol. Some fans are more willing to pay these high prices but I’m not one of them. Most single game tickets at REA average around $40-50. 

Drag the old lady with you, plus parking, food/drinks & it's probably close to $900 for a UND game at Mullett. It better be a resounding Sioux victory for that price.

[fightingsioux4life]

10 minutes ago, .357 said:

Drag the old lady with you, plus parking, food/drinks & it's probably close to $900 for a UND game at Mullett. It better be a resounding Sioux victory for that price.

That's way too much for a non-playoff game.

[siouxforce19]

27 minutes ago, cberkas said:

The reality of being a fan of UND the best traveling fans in college hockey. If you look at the other games at ASU it’s way cheaper. 

It’s definitely different out East. I went to the BU games last year and a 2 tickets for both games was $86 total! 

im going to the Cornell series so hopefully I have better luck getting decently priced tickets for that series than ASU. 

[stoneySIOUX]

Only one way our fanbase can stop this from happening... don't go. That's absolutely asinine.

[Oxbow6]

3 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:

Only one was our fanbase can stop this from happening... don't go. That's absolutely asinine.

So UND fans can gouge other UND fans and Gopher fans like last year and that's all good?

[cberkas]

1 hour ago, .357 said:

Drag the old lady with you, plus parking, food/drinks & it's probably close to $900 for a UND game at Mullett. It better be a resounding Sioux victory for that price.

Sounds about right. $20 for parking (Uber, Lyft, and Waymo would save on that with Waymo being the cheapest), $13 for food (a slice of pizza is 1/4th of a full large pizza), $13-15 for a beer. 

[brianvf]

1 hour ago, .357 said:

Drag the old lady with you, plus parking, food/drinks & it's probably close to $900 for a UND game at Mullett. It better be a resounding Sioux victory for that price.

I was looking forward to going to the series with it being a short drive away for me...but not at those prices. 
Guess I'll be watching on NCHC.tv for this one, unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure I spent less than that last year on my trip back to ND for a series...and that included airfare for both my son and I. 

[Oxbow6]

8 minutes ago, brianvf said:

I was looking forward to going to the series with it being a short drive away for me...but not at those prices. 
Guess I'll be watching on NCHC.tv for this one, unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure I spent less than that last year on my trip back to ND for a series...and that included airfare for both my son and I. 

Maybe we all can just take in a Coyotes game instead.

 

 

 

......wait nevermind.

[stoneySIOUX]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

So UND fans can gouge other UND fans and Gopher fans like last year and that's all good?

Um, did I say that? Goodness. Two wrongs don't make a right, brother.

[.357]

4 hours ago, cberkas said:

Sounds about right. $20 for parking (Uber, Lyft, and Waymo would save on that with Waymo being the cheapest), $13 for food (a slice of pizza is 1/4th of a full large pizza), $13-15 for a beer. 

With my luck, I'd be sitting there halfway through the 3rd period with UND down 1-4 & playing one of their worst games in recent memory, wondering why I even went, with the wife chirping in the ear about where that $900 could have gone instead...I was seriously considering going since I live only 15-20 minutes away, but it's just not worth it for a mid-season game.

4 hours ago, brianvf said:

I was looking forward to going to the series with it being a short drive away for me...but not at those prices. 
Guess I'll be watching on NCHC.tv for this one, unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure I spent less than that last year on my trip back to ND for a series...and that included airfare for both my son and I. 

A number of states define price gouging as raising prices by more than 10% on basic necessities compared to pre-emergency prices. Hockey isn't a basic necessity like food (maybe it's a necessity in GF, but not in most places;)), but I would still call it price gouging. If a ticket normally costs $50, but it jumps to $400, that's a 700% increase; this compared to the 40-80% increases in groceries over the last 4 years at my local supermarket. I would spend $400 for a NC because that's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, most definitely, but not for some game in January. 

[cberkas]

17 minutes ago, .357 said:

With my luck, I'd be sitting there halfway through the 3rd period with UND down 1-4 & playing one of their worst games in recent memory, wondering why I even went, with the wife chirping in the ear about where that $900 could have gone instead...I was seriously considering going since I live only 15-20 minutes away, but it's just not worth it for a mid-season game.

A number of states define price gouging as raising prices by more than 10% on basic necessities compared to pre-emergency prices. Hockey isn't a basic necessity like food (maybe it's a necessity in GF, but not in most places;)), but I would still call it price gouging. If a ticket normally costs $50, but it jumps to $400, that's a 700% increase; this compared to the 40-80% increases in groceries over the last 4 years at my local supermarket. I would spend $400 for a NC because that's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, most definitely, but not for some game in January. 

There is one going for just under $1k per ticket. 

[Langster019]

Colorado College tickets were expensive like this when their new rink opened. Be patient.  They’ll only go down. Or get on Craigslist and other avenues for better prices from people trying not to gouge by selling “more local” if that makes sense. We got tickets to CC that way their opening season. Was a season ticket holder just looking to move them vs make money. 

[brianvf]

Strinden won the Ironman competition for the 2nd year in a row:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/ben-strinden-wins-second-straight-und-hockey-iron-man-competition

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Sophomore forward Jayden Perron finished second in the Iron Man competition, followed by freshman defenseman E.J. Emery, senior forward Jake Schmaltz and junior forward Dylan James.

Perron, Schmaltz and James all finished in the top five last year, too.

 

[.357]

2 hours ago, brianvf said:

Strinden won the Ironman competition for the 2nd year in a row:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/ben-strinden-wins-second-straight-und-hockey-iron-man-competition

 

Was that a standard Ironman being a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride & 26.2-mile run, or was it a shorter version of these?

[hockeytherapy13]

7 minutes ago, .357 said:

Was that a standard Ironman being a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride & 26.2-mile run, or was it a shorter version of these?

Always hard to tell online if this is sarcasm or not haha. But if it’s not: their Ironman is a series of challenges UND does preseason to test strength, speed, endurance, etc. I believe there is a point system for each challenge.
 

With Perron finishing so high this year I’m hoping they means he starts to go through guys while carrying the puck more often. We badly need him to get closer to his potential to fill some of the gap from Blake leaving.  

[.357]

23 minutes ago, hockeytherapy13 said:

Always hard to tell online if this is sarcasm or not haha. But if it’s not: their Ironman is a series of challenges UND does preseason to test strength, speed, endurance, etc. I believe there is a point system for each challenge.

Was being serious, didn't know the format of their competition. Thanks for explaining it.

 

 

[brianvf]

2 hours ago, .357 said:

Was being serious, didn't know the format of their competition. Thanks for explaining it.

Here are the "events" in the annual UND Ironman competition:

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The 12 Iron Man tests are the isometric belt jump, squat jump, on-ice 6-meter acceleration, on-ice 35-meter acceleration, on-ice acceleration between 10 and 20 meters, on-ice 4x4 conditioning test, broad jump, single leg lateral jump, pull-ups, maximum velocity bench press, VO2 max on Wattbike and the mile run.

 

[cberkas]

After seeing the preseason poll and rosters 

1. North Dakota - They seem to win Penrose Cups. But they do what they do best and lose the first game in Fargo and the fans get the pitchforks (barrowed from ASU) and torches if that happens again.
2. Denver - Bring back 18 players but they are more focused on 11 and lose the Penrose Cup
3. Western Michigan - A team that is always plays tough and they get their first NCAA win this year
4. CC - They finally end the 68-year drought beat Denver for their 3rd National Title
5. Arizona State - They surprise people and make the Frozen Face Off and make the NCAA tournament. 
6. St. Cloud - I think they make the NCAA over Omaha as a 4 seed.
7. Omaha - Not high on Omaha and they might be the first team out of the NCAA's
8. Duluth - Young team and someone has to finish last in the "pod of death"
9. Miami - Still going to be here, in two years should move up. They get 4 conference wins 

I could see 6 teams making the NCAAs with goaltending being a strength of the teams. 4 through 7 could be a toss-up on where they finish, just like I could see UND being the worst team in the "pod of death" and miss the NCAAs. 

[fightingsioux4life]

2 minutes ago, cberkas said:

After seeing the preseason poll and rosters 

1. North Dakota - They seem to win Penrose Cups. But they do what they do best and lose the first game in Fargo and the fans get the pitchforks (barrowed from ASU) and torches if that happens again.
2. Denver - Bring back 18 players but they are more focused on 11 and lose the Penrose Cup
3. Western Michigan - A team that is always plays tough and they get their first NCAA win this year
4. CC - They finally end the 68-year drought beat Denver for their 3rd National Title
5. Arizona State - They surprise people and make the Frozen Face Off and make the NCAA tournament. 
6. St. Cloud - I think they make the NCAA over Omaha as a 4 seed.
7. Omaha - Not high on Omaha and they might be the first team out of the NCAA's
8. Duluth - Young team and someone has to finish last in the "pod of death"
9. Miami - Still going to be here, in two years should move up. They get 4 conference wins 

I could see 6 teams making the NCAAs with goaltending being a strength of the teams. 4 through 7 could be a toss-up on where they finish, just like I could see UND being the worst team in the "pod of death" and miss the NCAAs. 

It's high time UND focuses on hanging #9 and not focus too much on the Penrose. Only total homers will insist that UND had a better season last year than Denver.

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