Best Hockey Schools

monydad
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:06:21 +0000

"Good for Cornell. 4,000+ is not bad. That ranks it #19 in the country in average home attendance. "

The problem arises due to this earlier quote:

“Lynah holds about 4,500, and it’s PACKED for every game”

They can’t have more attendance, because their rink is already filled to capacity. This has long been a problem there, people used to camp out and sleep overnight there to get tickets. I’m not sure why they never expanded it. However, on the positive side the combination of the small rink and the packed crowd makes for a particularly intense environment there.

Of course they could never have the attendance of Madison anyway, they have a much smaller student body and a much smaller surrounding community. But they could easily have much higher attendance , if only the rink could hold them.

By contrast, Thanksgiving 2007 Cornell played BU in Madison Square Garden, and they sold it out, attendance 18,200. This indicates that where the rink capacity and surrounding population size are not such constraints the inherent fan support for the program would indeed result in large attendance numbers.