Boston College Hockey To Play Northeastern At Fenway On January 14
by Grant Salzano on Nov 3, 2011 10:48 AM EDT
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PrintRumors have been circulating on Twitter about a possible venue change for BC's home game against Northeastern on January 14th, and today the BC ticket office made it official in an email to season ticket holders:
"We are pleased to announce that Boston College Hockey will play its Jan. 14 game against Northeastern at Fenway Park at 6 p.m. The game will immediately follow a high school hockey game between long-time rivals Boston College High School and Catholic Memorial, which will faceoff at 3 p.m."
Jerry York is pleased.
"The opportunity to play our long-time rival Northeastern on a stage like Fenway Park captivates not only our fan base and the public at large, but our coaches, staff and players as well. Based on our previous experience, which was a memorable night, we look forward to another outdoor game at Fenway Park with great anticipation."
Despite being, I can only imagine, a huge deal for the players and certainly a boon for recruiting, this isn't really the best news for BC fans.
Those BC fans likely to attend an event like this were likely in attendance two years ago when BC played against BU at Fenway. Ignoring the fact that we lost, the cold weather and awful sightlines for 95% of fans made many fans a bit sour on any similar future event. In addition, the poor ice quality made for poor hockey quality. Most frustrating of all to Eagles fans is probably the fact that, like two years ago, BC loses a home game.
Nonetheless, Jerry York has built his Frozen Four success partially by preparing his team for large crowds by throwing them into the fire with big early season games and regular season tournaments like this year, with the Ice Breaker, Great Lakes Invitational, and of course, the Beanpot.
Who knows? Maybe playing at Fenway Park is lucky. After all, every season we've played at Fenway, we won the national championship in the same year.
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Awesome news
Hopefully this game can get picked up by TV (NBCSN, CBSC or NESN).
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Timing
Students won’t be back yet. Classes start back up on 1/17. Hopefully fans consider coming back early to go to the game.
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I’ll probably head up early for it. Missed the BU one so this still has novelty value for me. I will never consider this type of event a bad thing, either, simply because it promotes the BC brand in a more noticeable way than a usual home game.
Agreed
And the fact that Northeastern is now involved — and was left out of the last Frozen Fenway — will hopefully help to sell some tickets. NU starts up earlier (1/9) which is a plus.
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If I remember correctly, students weren’t back from the holidays for BC-BU at Fenway in 2010 either, and from what I’ve heard, BC was well-represented then anyway. So, this is really not a problem. Given the boom in student hockey attendance over the last year or so, I’m really not worried about this.
Will definitely be trying to get tickets to this…missed out last time around.
Tickets go on sale to the general public the 18th
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ticketing/frozenfenway.jsp
Doubt I’ll be there – it was so darn cold last time and the sight lines are terrible.
Sight lines were terrible. Sat in dead center last time. Still had fun though.
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Should be a good time
It helps to have the high school game before. For anyone who is not familiar with the BCH-CM rivalry, think of it as a high school version of BC-BU. Same colors and everything.
So will this game be better attended that the actual Frozen Fenway played a week earlier?
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Why not football at Fenway?
The Sox ownership is obviously intent on maximizing every penny they can out of Fenway and making it a year round venue – and BC seems to want to forge some type of identity at Fenway.
Football has been played at Fenway in the old Boston Patriots days, and obstructing poles aside, would actually provide decent sightlines with a football field running down the first base line. You wouldn’t really lose all that much capacity-wise and would probably equal that of Alumni Stadium if you threw some temporary bleachers up in front of the Monster. Would tailgating suffer? Maybe, maybe not. But it would otherwise provide a much better fan experience than Fenway hockey does, with its weather dependence and awful sightlines, not to mention it would be much less costly than constructing and maintaining an outdoor rink.
Take an otherwise dreadful November matchup versus NC State 2 weeks from now and plop it at Fenway and I guarantee you’d draw a lot more interest both locally and nationally than you’ll otherwise get, no?
I don’t think that’s possible anymore. Since the olden days of football in Fenway, they’ve expanded the seating near the field, so I don’t think there’s a way you can fit a field on there any more. Wrigley was a novelty game, but the whole issue with the field of play only being one direction showcased why it’s not a great idea.
Student tix
It’s annoying that student season tickets won’t cover this game. We don’t get tickets for anything over Christmas break. I think I’ll still be there, though. Who’s with me?
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