On Feb. 21, Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey will begin its final two-game homestand with the Battle of Whitney Avenue, as it takes on Yale. Every year, tickets for this game are in high demand, as the student body routinely crashes the ticket portal for this game.

The student tickets went live at noon on Sunday Feb. 16, and shortly after they were gone.

The moment tickets sold out, I saw at least 15 separate posts on the student-shared Snapchat stories advertising tickets that were just claimed for free five minutes prior.

Listen, if you flip a Drake pit ticket for $700, good for you, but save these reselling shenanigans for other events. Stay away from this game. You are not some entrepreneur making a life shattering investment. What you are doing is taking tickets away from students who are actually planning on going.

Don’t claim a ticket just because you want one just in case. It’s not some rainy day insurance policy. Either you are going or not.

I don’t want to get to the game, and see a half empty student section because you couldn’t flip your free ticket for $50 and now you don’t feel like going.

For Wake the Giant, they make it impossible to sell your ticket, making the decision to buy one a much more real decision. I don’t see why they can’t make student tickets for this game to be untransferable, that way these ticket poachers can be gone.

And if you claim a ticket but end up not being able to make it, just give it away. They’re free, don’t start some anonymous bidding war over something you didn’t spend any money on.

This game, however a one-way street, is perhaps the biggest rivalry matchup of the year, and it deserves a packed, passionate student section complete with Teletubbies.