Michigan State University Athletics
"Cold War" Update
9/5/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
Sept. 5, 2001
EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan State-Michigan hockey game, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 6 at Spartan Stadium, looms just one month away. Here are the most recent developments regarding the contest dubbed "The Cold War."
TICKETS: No single-game tickets remain - as of today, more than 67,000 tickets have been sold. MSU students can still get tickets by purchasing one of two eight-game student season ticket plans. The deadline to order student season-ticket plans, which cost $69, is Friday (Sept. 7). The near-sellout all but guarantees that the world record for attendance at a hockey game - 55,000 at Moscow's Lenin Stadium for the 1957 IIHF World Championship match between Sweden and the USSR - will fall.
TELEVISION: An estimated 38 million homes from coast to coast in North America will be able to see the "Cold War." Fox Sports Net Detroit will broadcast the game live to 2.6 million cable subscribers in Michigan, northern Indiana and northwestern Ohio. The contest can also be seen live by direct broadcast satellite owners.
Nine Fox Sports Net outlets nationwide totalling 29.4 million households will carry the contest on a tape-delay basis. They are Fox Sports Net Ohio, Fox Sports Net Chicago, Fox Sports Net Midwest, Fox Sports Net North, Fox Sports Net Pittsburgh, Fox Sports Net New England, Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain, Fox Sports Net Bay Area and Fox Sports Net Florida. Dates and times for the tape-delay broadcasts have not been announced.
Canada's CTV Sportsnet will also broadcast the game on a same-day delay. The MSU-Michigan contest will air at 11 p.m. EDT on CTV East, 11:30 p.m. EDT on CTV Ontario, 2 a.m. EDT (midnight MDT) on CTV West and 3 a.m. EDT (midnight PDT) on CTV Pacific.
The "Cold War" is scheduled for at 7:05 p.m. EDT faceoff. The game marks the regular-season opener for the Spartans and Wolverines, who both advanced to last year's NCAA Frozen Four in Albany, N.Y.
