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2019 Frozen Four

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Hi folks,

Some local info for you, should you be looking for something to eat/do

Closest bar to the rink, and also the best for a beer (micro brew style) lover:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g33801-d2476260-Reviews-Mikro-Hamden_Connecticut.html

They also have a **** good upscale pub fare menu

Second closest bar to the rink, but more of a neighborhood place, as opposed to QU hangout. Great pizza too:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaur...ie_s_Place_on_Whitney-Hamden_Connecticut.html

You can all search TripAdvisor for things to do in New Haven, which is barely 10 miles away
But if you really want something unique and local, try duckpin bowling

https://www.cthighlandbowl.com/

There are also two microbreweries in close proximity to the rink

Less than a mile away we have https://www.counterweightbrewing.com/

About 5 miles distant, there's https://noworriesbeer.com/

Enjoy Hamden!
 
vicb said:
The benches at Cheel are on the opposite side of the ice from one another with the penalty box for Clarkson next to the Clarkson bench, the scorers section next to it and then the penalty box for the visitor next to it (actually this penalty box is also the exit for the visiting team to get to its lockers.)
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Exact same setup at RIT.

Same with D3 Oswego which has a better rink than a lot of D1 schools.
 
pgb-ohio said:
I'm under no illusions. Intense, in-your-face marketing is here to stay. All I'm saying is that the NCAA doesn't need to melt the ice right before the tournament to reach the desired pain threshold.

It would only be a minor repair. We tweak the rulebook every couple of years. There's no reason the hosting regulations can't be similarly tweaked.

If coaches & administrators are willing to speak up on this, change is possible. But if those leaders see no need to speak, maybe the ice quality isn't quite as bad as some are claiming.
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Again, we’re talking about the NCAA. No. Way. In. Hell. Do they ever give up the center ice logo. Just ask Boston what happened when they didn’t do that much to the surprise of the NCAA.

Besides, this is done all the time. I’m watching the men’s D3 championship right now. They had only four days notice, and the ice is fine. Same with the D3 women last weekend.
 
Timothy A said:
MJ loves to talk about puck luck, they got some there.

Why was the ice so bad? Too warm outside? The benches on both sides of the rink is SO yuck. What real hockey rink has that?

I think the NC$$ should do what they do for baseball and just have the FF at the same location every year....Ridder. You know you will have great ice, modern locker rooms, big city amenities, and at least one of MN or UW there every year, so they will get butts in the seats. Eastern team don't attend well, that is a fact, so why shoot yourself in the foot? Would the place have been full if one of the matchups was BU/BC last night? The next 3 years are Agganis (BU or BC?), Erie Insurance Arena (guessing Mercyhurst? 8.5 hr drive from WI) and Pegula (10.5 hrs). I guess I won't be attending the frozen 4 anytime soon the nc$$ isn't interested in getting butts in the seats. At least the B7 has the rights for 1 more year, so it gets on cable.
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The last time it was in Erie, Wisconsin was in it (and won it). They brought a lot of fans.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
The penalty boxes are right next to them, so they can switch out quicker after a penalty.

Also, because of the above layout, their bench is offset more than the visitor bench and thus can do the defensive line changes much easier and quicker for two periods.
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Gotcha. Thanks.

I'm used to Bright, Conte, Matthews, Walter Brown. Must be a Boston thing. Seize the advantage! (Side by side always strikes me as weird feng shui.) Gotta get out of town more.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
Again, we’re talking about the NCAA. No. Way. In. Hell. Do they ever give up the center ice logo. Just ask Boston what happened when they didn’t do that much to the surprise of the NCAA.

Besides, this is done all the time. I’m watching the men’s D3 championship right now. They had only four days notice, and the ice is fine. Same with the D3 women last weekend.
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Good grief.

The NCAA "gave up" the center ice logo in Madison last weekend for the Wisconsin/Syracuse NCAA Quarterfinal. The usual Flying W was in place. I don't recall an NCAA center ice logo at any of the other quarterfinal sites either. But if they were there, no marketing was accomplished with me; I have absolutely no memory of them. You're telling me this is a sacred cow? It isn't. Flexibility is possible. The NCAA got 100% of the space on the boards at LaBahn. The rink looked perfectly fine as a playoff site.

Nevertheless: If the ice quality this weekend is truly an outlier, OK. No urgent need for an across-the-board change. And as I've already acknowledged, it could be that this weekend's complaints are exaggerated. I'm home, watching on television. If you've got better information than I do, I'm willing to learn. But I must say that if you're taking on the role of educating the board on this subject, you've got a fair amount of posting ahead of you. People complain about post-season ice quality all the time...


BTW, I attended the Boston FF you mentioned. Whoever made the decision to breach contractual terms and leave the Bruins' logo in place was wrong to do so. Quite honestly it was refreshing that someone challenged the NCAA on this. Again, though, they chose the wrong means.
 
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Good luck to the Badgers and Gophers. May the best team win because of their performance on the ice and not because of the officials.
I ain't got no dog in this fight so just want to see an exciting game.
 
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pgb-ohio said:
The NCAA "gave up" the center ice logo in Madison last weekend for the Wisconsin/Syracuse NCAA Quarterfinal. The usual Flying W was in place. I don't recall an NCAA center ice logo at any of the other quarterfinal sites either.
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I think that's the difference between a site that is hosting one game on one day and a site that is hosting a three-game championship. For the quarterfinals, they put up the NCAA signage on the boards that covers the ads that teams display during the season. However, there isn't anything akin to the official Frozen Four logo that is designed for that year and promotes both the NCAA and the FF host city.

I think that the key is to have sufficient time to add the new logos to the ice. As others have said, the ice doesn't seem to be an issue if it is done correctly and the arena is kept cool.
 
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ARM said:
I think that the key is to have sufficient time to add the new logos to the ice. As others have said, the ice doesn't seem to be an issue if it is done correctly and the arena is kept cool.
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One theory I heard going around on Friday is that they weren't scraping deep enough when they resurfaced and were putting down too much water. (The latter seemed to definitely be true; the former I have no way to judge.) If the ice was too thick, that would be an explanation for why it seemed slushy. I don't know whether those things would be in response to having recently put down new logos.
 
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I'm frustrated that Minnesota's fourth got zero shifts in that period. Oden was out a few times with the third line, but no sign of Boreen or Skaja. Why not go with what has worked all year?
 
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Pretty good period for both teams. I gotta say Wisconsin looks darn good. It will take a really great effort for Minnesota to play catch up.
 
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Still Eeyore said:
Why not go with what has worked all year?
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No idea. Must be higher-level thinking that escapes me. I think Gophs are going to be the team that wears down at this rate.

UM had a much better first period than two weeks ago, but have to finish, because they're not going to get many scoring chances as this goes along. There were three prime ones, and they all went begging. It doesn't appear like they are calling hooking, slashing, or interference, so there likely won't be many PP opportunities.
 
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Badgers lead in zone time, but I thought the Gophers had just as many (if not more) GOOD chances. Easier said than done, but the Gophs just need to find a way to cash in on one of them.
 
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