{"id":798013,"date":"2018-02-28T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=796301"},"modified":"2022-01-05T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:33:52","slug":"is-attendance-falling-for-und-hockey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/is-attendance-falling-for-und-hockey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Attendance Falling for UND Hockey?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recently, I was reading an article at the Athletic that was penned by Eric Vegoe — With attendance flagging, Gopher men’s hockey looks for answers on ice and off.\u00a0After reading that post, I got to thinking. Is the University of North Dakota hockey team experiencing some of the same problems? Let see if this sounds familiar.<\/p>\n
First Vegoe explains:<\/p>\n
The biggest complaint maroon and gold fans voice is the loss of their rivals after a conference move from the WCHA to the Big Ten. The realignment of college hockey not only meant Minnesota wouldn\u2019t get to play Minnesota Duluth, North Dakota and Minnesota State as often, but they\u2019d be forced to add four conference games each with Michigan State, Ohio State and Penn State. The Gophers won league titles during the last two years of the WCHA and the first four years of the Big Ten, but that couldn\u2019t stop a decline in ticket usage from 7,827 attending games in 2014-15 to 7,139 in 2015-16 to 7,063 in 2016-17 and 6,106 this season, which is up from under 6,000 after a late-January visit from No. 1 Notre Dame brought easily the largest two-game crowd of the season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n