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9 Filip Forsberg Nashville Predators jersey, shorts and sandals watching the Green Bay Packers game outside the Mecca Sports Bar and Grill, waiting with three friends. So we’re hardcore.”Īnd then there was Bob Modlinski, wearing a No. “We’ve traveled abroad to see the ’Hawks play. “We still make our way down to Chicago to see games,” Carly Wallace said. They picked up their tickets in the secondary market but didn’t overpay, she said. 88 Patrick Kane jersey she’s owned for 14 years – half her life – and her husband, Chris, was wearing Jonathan Toews’ No. I don’t think that those plans are on the horizon, but I’m not the league.” Said Faulkner: “I don’t think it would happen, quite honestly. But this is not step one to get an NHL team.” “This is an unbelievable leap forward and it’s great and we’re leveraging it in such a great way. “I do not think there’s a plan in the Bucks’, Fiserv’s or the NHL’s future in Milwaukee expansion,” Feigin said. Sunday night was a single preseason game that could lead to more like it and more hockey, in general. We think this all should be a catalyst for growth.”įeigin and Faulkner both cautioned hockey fans, though, not to get ahead of themselves. Now that you have it, how can we expand it? And for us, there’s another little market on the event side of more high school and college hockey once we have the ice down. “So, we’ve done college hockey, Division I college hockey before, and I think now it’s just improve the product. “The ability for it to come to fruition is great. “For us, we built Fiserv to be extremely flexible, knowing we wanted the dimensions and an ice floor for an NHL rink, an NCAA rink, we wanted to do ice shows,” Peter Feigin, president of the Bucks and Fiserv Forum, said a night earlier. Blackhawks forward Colin Blackwell met his fiancée while playing with the Admirals and spends his offseason in Wisconsin. The team is owned by Racine native Craig Leopold and coached by Dean Evason, who spent six seasons behind the Admirals bench. The game had a handful of other Wisconsin connections mostly on the Wild side. I’ve said it before, but I have a big place in my heart for this town, the Admirals, so it’s fun to come back and see them.” “Everything here was great,” said Wild forward Frederick Gaudreau, who became a favorite of Milwaukee Admirals fans over parts of five seasons in the American Hockey League. Watt and Don Majkowski making appearances on the scoreboard screen and spectators having the opportunity to cheer the Green Bay Packers and jeer Illinois drivers. The Blackhawks did offer some Wisconsin-specific touches too, with images of state sports legends Bob Uecker, J.J. The host Milwaukee Bucks put their stamp on the night with Deer District entertainment and DJ Shawna and mascot Bango working up the crowd. Out-of-market fans got a solid exhibition version of the United Center experience, with Cornelison’s rousing anthem accompanied by the crowd’s roar, plenty of “Let’s go, ’Hawks” chants and Chicago hosts handling the in-game entertainment during stoppages. Connor Dewar had a goal and an assist, and veteran goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 12 shots. She was joking, of course, and they didn’t have to hide their shirts to leave after the Wild scored a 3-0 victory over the rebuilding Blackhawks. The people we talked to on the elevator, they live here but they were Chicago fans … and they still let us on the elevator.” “It’s probably people from Chicago who live here (who bought tickets). More: As NHL makes gains in front-office diversity, can hockey keep up? More: NHL regular season is around the corner: Here's one question for each of the 32 teams They got their tickets through Tim’s work. Transplanted from Minnesota, where they were North Stars and Wild season ticketholders, the McChesneys live in Delafield now. “Obviously a lot of Blackhawks fans live in Wisconsin,” said Joyann McChesney, who came to the game with her husband Tim.

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More than 80% of orders came from buyers with Wisconsin ZIP codes and just 7% from Illinois, she said. What’s still a little surprising was where the tickets were sold.

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