{"id":40999,"date":"2016-09-14T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=40999"},"modified":"2016-09-14T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T19:54:13","slug":"tickets-moving-quickly-for-steel-blade-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/09\/tickets-moving-quickly-for-steel-blade-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets moving quickly for Steel Blade Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,200 tickets have been scooped up for the Brock Badgers\u2019 first-ever hockey game at the Meridian Centre Friday, Sept. 16, where the men\u2019s hockey team will play the Guelph Gryphons in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelbladeclassic.com\">Steel Blade Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 7 p.m. game will build on last year\u2019s two Brock University basketball appearances at the downtown St. Catharines arena complex, which each attracted more than 2,700 people including community members, Brock staff and students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrossing the 3,000-ticket mark is a great sign that the community both at Brock and across Niagara is getting on board with the direction we\u2019re heading,\u201d said Neil Lumsden, Director, Brock Sports. \u201cWe want to be out in the community putting on big events that Niagara can get behind and this is a great example of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are limited free student tickets remaining for the game that can be picked up at the Walker Complex Welcome Desk. Community tickets are available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelbladeclassic.com\">Ticketmaster<\/a> for $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone in Niagara is also invited to the Homecoming Tailgate Party being held before the Steel Blade game at the neighbouring Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p>The party starts at 4 p.m. and features music and family-friendly events. Outside alcohol won\u2019t be permitted, but the tailgate will have a beer tent and barbecue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,200 tickets have been scooped up for the Brock Badgers\u2019 first-ever hockey game at the Meridian Centre Friday, Sept. 16, where the men\u2019s hockey team will play the Guelph Gryphons in the Steel Blade Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,1,4,58],"tags":[256,4472,698,3556,4326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}