Preview: Milwaukee Admirals take on Colorado Eagles

But it really is a great day to be a Wisconsin sports fan, whether you're a Packers fan, Brewers fan. We've got so many things to be proud of here in Wisconsin, including our hockey team, the Admirals. They have two games this weekend. I want to bring in Admirals President John Greenberg. John, thanks so much for joining us here on Fox 6 Now, and I hope you're staying dry. I haven't ventured outside, Maddie, so I think we're going to be okay. I'm right there with you. It is going to be a soaker out there, but we're excited. And good thing, Admirals, the stadium, indoors as well. We've got two games coming up this weekend. What do fans need to know if they plan on heading out there? Sure. Well, we play the Colorado Eagles this weekend. They're the affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche, and we don't normally get a chance to see them, so it's a different team than our fans are probably used to seeing. Friday night is Hocktoberfest, so it's hockey and Oktoberfest together, and that's a fun thing that we've been doing the last several years and a lot of German-themed promotions and music, and it'll be a lot of fun. And you can buy a Bierstein package that has an Admirals logo on it. So a lot of fun stuff for Friday. Saturday night is our first dog night of the year. So we have two of those each season, and this will be the first. You can bring your dog to the game for just $5 for the dog, and all the dogs and their owners sit up on the 400 level and it's a really unique experience. Two really exciting themes coming up as I read it here. And actually, oddly enough, one of my friends is from Denver, Colorado, and she's a huge Avs fan. I know you had said it's not typical for you guys to see this matchup. So what's the reason for it happening this Friday? Yeah, so when we do our scheduling with the league, we have to negotiate with teams that want to come and play us. And the teams that are out in that Pacific Division, which Colorado is in, they don't get around to too many places. So I started that conversation with them last year about this time, about coming to play this year. We'll return the favor and go out there and play a couple of games in January. So it's just one of those things that we were able to put together for this year. And we're excited to see the Eagles come here to Milwaukee. They've got a really good team, so it should be a fun weekend. So I have been to a few Admirals games myself, but for people who might be interested in getting out there for the first time, talk a little bit about the fan experience. What can people expect when they go to an Admirals game? Sure. So our mission here is to entertain you from the minute you walk through the door until the minute that you leave around the game of hockey. So we always like to joke that we're the only sport with two halftimes because we play three periods and there's two intermissions. So, you know, there's plenty of promotions and fun activities going on on the ice, off the ice. And then it's all surrounded by an Admirals, hopefully, victory each night. So we hope that we entertain you. If you've never been to a hockey game before, I think you'd pick it up pretty quickly. And we've said to people before, if you come to one, you're going to want to come back for more. it is very fun and very entertaining as well like on the ice and off so a lot for fans to look forward to and these are such two great theme nights back to back but are there any that you're looking forward to in particular later in the season or are these your two main ones that you're excited for so the most important ones because they're the next ones but there are a lot of really cool things coming up this year uh the Kyle Marino bobble fists uh so he's uh he's one of our tougher guys and on our Hockey Fights Cancer Night in December we are doing 3,000 bobble fists so it's a bobble head but his head doesn't do anything but his fists do so that's going to be a fun giveaway for fans we've started to put together our concert series, post game concerts, we've been doing those for many many years, we already have announced one of them, Dustin Lynch who's a big time country music star many many number one hits, we'll come on to play a post-game show on February 27th, the annual visit of the Wisconsin Marching Band. So the UW band will be here on February the 12th. So I just encourage people to go to our website, go to MilwaukeeAdmirals.com and click on the promotions. You can scroll through and see all the really fun stuff coming up. Yeah. My ears perked up when you said Dustin Lynch, because I love him. He's great. It sounds like a lot of exciting things ahead this season, John. I know you had mentioned to go to the website for more information. Is that where people should go to if they want to get tickets that's yeah absolutely go and uh click on tickets and click to single games or groups if you'd like to bring a group it starts at 10 people or more uh but go to uh the single game link and you can click on there and uh buy tickets for any of our games uh we've only played one home game we've got 35 more including the two this weekend so lots of choices and uh we hope people will come out and and support us it's a great time for sports our community and we're glad to be a part of it it really is we've got football we've got baseball hockey so many different ways to support your Wisconsin sports John is there anything else you want to add that fans you feel like fans should know well i would just say you know always like when people get here early um you know the doors open an hour prior to the game uh it's always really fun for our players when they hit the ice for the warm-up to have lots of people in the stands those always take place at uh at 29 after the hour so uh on friday night 6 29 saturday night 5 29 uh you know start creating that atmosphere and that energy that you know our players really take that uh it adds a lot to what they're doing so the more the merrier in the building early and we look forward to seeing everybody starting tomorrow it really is a lot about the fan energy i feel like the Brewers can attest to that so we want to create that same atmosphere for the Admirals as well. John, thanks so much for joining us. Go Admirals, and hopefully see you this weekend. Sounds good. Thanks, Maddie.