This may sound mean spirited, but I sincerely hope that the UAA games do not see an over-inflated attendance rate for the first few games of the season.  The reason is, unless something drastically changes (unlikely) within the program, any early season boost seen by this effort will quickly dwindle and leave the seats as empty as they have been for years.

When I was growing up, my family had season tickets and went to at least one Seawolves hockey game each series.  We stopped going at a certain point, I'm not really sure why.  However, the last game I went to was probably about 5 or 6 years ago.  It was a great game where the 'wolves beat the #1 ranked team in their division.  The group I was with was very vocal during the game and at the end, a couple approached us and almost begged us to come back to every game.  They claimed they hadn't seen that kind of energy in awhile.  Combine that with an almost empty Sullivan arena and you have a dead program.