Quick interview with Jeff Hunt on TEAM 1200/Garry and Dave today regarding the game that has been moved to the Corel Centre.
The Corel Centre is announcing today that they have officially increased their seating capacity to 20500.
The Ottawa 67s’ December 30th game against the Kingston Frontenacs has moved from the Civic Centre to the Corel Centre.
Initially it was thought that this was to provide increase seating for the Bell Capital Cup tournament members who wished to attend, as the game was close-to-being/already sold out at the Civic Centre.
Apparently this seat increase at the Corel Centre was the final push to move the game, said Hunt. He wants to make history by attempting to break the Junior Hockey attendance record set by a team in Detroit, which had over 19000.
Currently, Hunt said they have sold 16800 tickets for this game.
What is interesting, is that the night before (December 29), Ottawa will play in Kingston in front of their home crowd which is averaging
For more news see: Official 67s News On December 30th Game
* * Update 16-Dec-04 by Sid * *
Article by Barre Campbell in the Ottawa Sun today (67's packing house in quest for record).
Detailed info at the Official 67s site (Ottawa 67’s Look To Set Attendance Record at Corel Centre).
Also, StatsGuy talked to a colleague today who was interested in attending and had called re: tickets. They are selling into the upper bowl (300 level). I heard on the TEAM 1200 today that they have reached the 17000 mark.
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