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One Washington Hockey Fan's Very Good Fortune

By pucksandbooks - July 31, 2008

Letter received today from the NCAA:

"Dear pucksandbooks:

We are pleased to inform you that your offer to purchase tickets contained in your application for tickets to the 2009 NCAA Men's Frozen Four at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., has been accepted. The semifinal games will be played at 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, Thursday, April 9, and the championship game will be played at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Saturday, April 11. Please note that game times are subject to change.

You will receive 2 all-session tickets . . . Tickets and seat locations will be distributed in March 2009 . . .

The seating capacity for the 2009 Men's Frozen Four will be 18,875 [interesting, that]. Priority ticket applicants and those individuals applying for the first time have been allocated 9,626 tickets. The remaining tickets are reserved for the four participating institutions, the NCAA membership (e.g., athletic directors, coaches and various committee members), the host institution, the local organizing committee and other groups affiliated with the NCAA . . .

We thank you for applying for tickets to the 2009 Men's Frozen Four and appreciate your interest in and support of NCAA ice hockey.

Sincerely,

NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship Staff

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23 Comments on "One Washington Hockey Fan's Very Good Fortune"

#1

Posted by Jeremy, July 31, 2008 11:20 PM

Got the same letter, I'll be there. Really lookin forward to it

#2

Posted by Bob D, August 1, 2008 7:51 AM

Go Hockey East!

#3

Posted by SpartyCuse, August 1, 2008 8:03 AM

Did you apply through the NCAA, or via the Caps? My folks put in via the Caps, since they are season tix holders. I dont think they have heard anything yet. Go Green! Go White! Go State!!!!!!

#4

Posted by KK, August 1, 2008 8:52 AM

I didn't get the letter! My fingers are crossed. Have fun, BC all the way baby...

#5

Posted by Steven Ineedanalias, August 1, 2008 9:12 AM

Fingers crossed HQ here. Was it a written letter or an email? I need to know which to check obsessively.

#6

Posted by pucksandbooks, August 1, 2008 9:18 AM

You should be looking for a letter, Steven. Here's hoping it's in your Friday mailbox.

#7

Posted by Gustafsson, August 1, 2008 10:15 AM

I had no such letter neither at home nor my PO Box. I'll be on pins and needles until I am able to check both again after work.

#8

Posted by pepper, August 1, 2008 10:24 AM

No letter for me yet either. I assume we get a letter either way? No refund has hit my credit card at least.

#9

Posted by vt caps fan, August 1, 2008 11:44 AM

OH its a letter.... what luck. The wife is gone for the weekend, and she's got the mail key. Looks like I have to wait till Monday night.

I've got my finger's crossed....

#10

Posted by Gustafsson, August 1, 2008 5:08 PM

Guess what I had waiting for me in my PO Box?

Woo Hoo!

Wonder who I will be rooting for?

#11

Posted by Cathy W, August 1, 2008 6:41 PM

Lucky you. Have not heard anything from the NCAA yet but I don't have my hopes up that I will be selected for tickets as I didn't get tickets the last time I applied to the Frozen Four lottery when it was held in Buffalo.

#12

Posted by Victor, August 1, 2008 9:28 PM

Just got back from vacation about 4 hrs ago. Read this and decided to go thru the huuuge stack of mail, and found my letter! The GF and I are going!

#13

Posted by Scott, August 1, 2008 9:37 PM

Well...we got our letter today and our application was NOT accepted. We were accepted the last two years, so we thought our chances would be pretty good. I wonder how far down the priority list they got? Sigh...

#14

Posted by Steven, August 1, 2008 10:04 PM

Friday mailbox it is! Whoo-hoo! All the single ladies out there... I have an extra ticket. ;-)

#15

Posted by Victor, August 2, 2008 6:16 AM

Late last night I thought...NOW will they fix the ice?

#16

Posted by cows3500, August 2, 2008 12:59 PM

I got mine as well! Yay!!!!!

#17

Posted by Cathy W, August 2, 2008 2:16 PM

Got the letter on Saturday and we did not get tickets. Congrats to those who got tickets through the NCAA.

#18

Posted by Bob, August 3, 2008 10:37 AM

Got tickets on Friday, may try to get 2 more, I have connections with the academy, but either way I'm going!!!!

#19

Posted by pucksandbooks, August 3, 2008 11:06 AM

It's nice how this thread has become a bit of a forum for folks to share their lottery good news. Next year's Frozen Four is perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime event for us D.C. puckheads as hosts, so indeed it's worth celebrating.

#20

Posted by OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki), August 3, 2008 3:46 PM

I received mine as well, via the NCAA application. Now let's see if I luck into a pair through the Capitals Season Ticketholder lottery too!

#21

Posted by Lorraine, August 5, 2008 10:18 AM

I applied through the Caps website and got my tickets this weekend.

#22

Posted by c$, August 5, 2008 12:32 PM

I had just gotten home from an afternoon/evening of helping my friend move and was on the phone with my mother in Boston. I opened up the letter and SCREAMED. The poor woman was thisclose to hanging up with me and calling 911.

I think I gave my mom a heart attack, along with anyone else that was in the vicinity.

Needless to say, I will be there, along with my three other Caps season ticket holder friends who also happen to love college hockey. It is, in fact, what brought us together in the first place and we've been talking about the 2009 FF for 2+ years.

GO BU!

#23

Posted by Alan Matcke, August 5, 2008 1:56 PM

I got my approved application on Saturday. While I have not been a big college hockey fan, I am looking forward to this!

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