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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MuskyManiac" data-source="post: 42598" data-attributes="member: 381">[h=1]From the Grand Forks Herald today.  Pretty weak of Omaha if you ask me, makes them look afraid.Omaha’s ticket policy to try to limit UND fans probably not the last of its kind[/h]Two years ago, the University of Denver tried to keep North Dakota hockey fans out of Magness Arena.Denver instituted a ticket policy requiring fans who wanted single-game tickets to the UND-DU series to buy tickets to three other Denver games.Although UND fans were angered by the policy, they eventually found a way around it, learning they could purchase group tickets (25 or more) for the series without having to buy seats for other DU games.Fans then sold their leftovers to friends or other UND fans.By the time game week arrived, Denver ditched the policy and opened up the few remaining single-game tickets, free of restrictions.Denver’s idea backfired. Magness Arena was flooded with green and white for both games. UND, feeling right at home, scored early Friday night and routed the Pioneers in the opener.But just because that attempt failed, that doesn’t mean it’s the last time an opposing school will try something like it.This morning, when single-game tickets go on sale for Nebraska Omaha at 10 a.m., fans will not be able to to purchase tickets for the UND series (Feb. 26-27) online. The other 16 home games will all be available on Ticketmaster.com.UND fans hoping to get tickets will have to either line up in person at Sapp Fieldhouse in Omaha or try to get them by phone at (402) 554-6287. You have to believe those phone calls will be left ringing for a while, especially ones that come in with a 701 area code.Ever since the schools joined the same conference in 2010, Omaha has yet to win a series against UND. Many of those games were played in front of huge UND crowds, whether they were held in Grand Forks or Omaha.Now, coinciding with the opening of Baxter Arena, Omaha wants to take back home-ice advantage.This ticket policy may be more difficult for UND fans to find a way around than the Denver one. Plenty of them will find their way in, though.Regardless of how this one turns out, don’t expect this to be the last time that an opposing team puts together a game plan to keep UND fans to a minimum.Denver was just the start.</blockquote>

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