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Northeastern 2024-25: Last Days (Maybe) for the Old Barn

Scarlet said:
How many games did they play at Matthews? Because they played most of them at Walter Brown. They paid me to run the message board during that time.

Would you think Warrior Ice Arena or the Skating Club of Boston's rink (which is super nice) might be options?
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I was referring to games only, but had done a walk through the BC schedule from 86-88. They had more games at WBA than Matthews, but they did have some at Matthews. Easy enough if you open up their schedule archives, you can see when they played at BU, NU, Harvard.

I can't imagine the school would want to play at Warrior for men's games unless its an emergency (1000-1500 max?), and Skating Club is in Norwood? Again, i don't know anything for certain, but anything that is more than 3 miles away, or not easily accessible by T, doesn't seem to make sense from a fan perspective.
 
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navy44 said:
I was referring to games only, but had done a walk through the BC schedule from 86-88. They had more games at WBA than Matthews, but they did have some at Matthews. Easy enough if you open up their schedule archives, you can see when they played at BU, NU, Harvard.

I can't imagine the school would want to play at Warrior for men's games unless it’s an emergency (1000-1500 max?), and Skating Club is in Norwood? Again, i don't know anything for certain, but anything that is more than 3 miles away, or easily accessible by T, doesn't seem to make sense from a fan perspective.
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I expect the 2025-26 schedule to front loaded with home games. More weeknight games locally during the construction years. We have had better relationships with BC and Harvard, but bu would be the most convenient for our fans.
 
Scarlet said:
How many games did they play at Matthews? Because they played most of them at Walter Brown. They paid me to run the message board during that time.

Would you think Warrior Ice Arena or the Skating Club of Boston's rink (which is super nice) might be options?
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Not many. Perhaps, 3 or 4, 5 tops. Skating Club of Boston is unlikely they rejected Brighton MDC when they were getting a new ice surface. The figure skating hours of pairs and singles practice on the ice doesn't give much up in the coveted Fri and Sat night ice time slots either. I suspect a lot of moving around and proximity to NU doesn't mean that much as nearly half the athletic programs take place two miles from campus at Parsons Field in Brookline. While I would hope Walter Brown would host most games I'm sure in the 15/16 home games would find weekly homes in spots besides BU, BC, and Harvard. In a pinch we have a plethora of options to support or nightly attendence of just over 2k. Dexter Southfield School is 4 miles away can support well over 1000 fans and even Bentley is less than 8 miles.
 
RossiRules said:
Not many. Perhaps, 3 or 4, 5 tops. Skating Club of Boston is unlikely they rejected Brighton MDC when they were getting a new ice surface. The figure skating hours of pairs and singles practice on the ice doesn't give much up in the coveted Fri and Sat night ice time slots either. I suspect a lot of moving around and proximity to NU doesn't mean that much as nearly half the athletic programs take place two miles from campus at Parsons Field in Brookline. While I would hope Walter Brown would host most games I'm sure in the 15/16 home games would find weekly homes in spots besides BU, BC, and Harvard. In a pinch we have a plethora of options to support or nightly attendence of just over 2k. Dexter Southfield School is 4 miles away can support well over 1000 fans and even Bentley is less than 8 miles.
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Another small capacity rink nearby is at UMass Boston. However maybe Northeastern can think innovative here and host games at some of their satellite campuses throughout North America including Toronto, Silicon Valley, Seattle, Miami, Vancouver, or Portland ,ME.
 
Sharks GM Mike Grier says the plan is to sign Cam Lund to his ELC in today's press avail. Implication is he turns pro this spring, which seems likely. He probably gets some NHL time and/or joins the Barracuda on their playoff push/run.
 
Brown Arena seems to make sense unless they're playing BU in which it's automatically HAA. It is close for NU fans and along the T. Brown holds at least 2-3,000 seats.

UMass Boston is more a high school rink as the stands are only on one side. The long walk from JFK station is a turnoff unless they provide buses to the rink. It was bad enough being a BC High student walking to the high school over the highway bridge on cold winter days.

The only rink similar to Brown is Bright Landry but the walk from Harvard Square to the rink is a bit of walk. Coordinating a schedule for more than one home rink will be a challenge.

I would not be a fan of many weeknight games when students are busy with classes and schoolwork. Looking forward to going to games is best held during weekends.

BC has two T stops, Chestnut Hill station which is a long walk and Comm Ave station is more convenient near the church.

Warrior does not have enough seats and again only one side has seats like UMass Boston.

What about building a temp bubble rink on one of the fields near Matthews or the near the parking garage ???
 
Someone did mention to me last night that they may be playing all (or almost all) of their home games in Oct/Nov/Dec, then would be playing actual road games starting in January. This would eliminate the need of a replacement arena for home games, for next season at least.
 
The idea is that they are going to rely on a specific rink they partner with to cover most of their practice needs and that games will use a mishmash of options. Keep in mind there aren't that many games relatively speaking, the teams need to practice 5 days a week while they only really need to play at home 12 times, 11 if they give up a "home" game for Frozen Fenway or the Friendship Four, in 2026-27 and 2027-28.

Warrior is definitely not out, NU only has a few hundred season ticket holders and after you add a bus load or two of students there's still room to sell a couple of hundred single game tickets. Walter Brown is the most sensible and proximate of course but they won't be able to take on every single game for both teams (keep in mind the womens team needs 13-14 home games as well).

Keep dreaming if you're planning on Conte, BC can't even get enough ice time there for their own hockey teams with two basketball teams also in residence. Maybe they could convince BC to host a NU/BU game to not play a road game in place of a home game but besides that. The Bright will also be involved. Again, the attendance needs for most of these games isn't going to match the attendance needs for normal home games.

I have also heard (probably from the same source) the rumors of a heavily frontloaded schedule next year. Denver will be coming out before the Arena comes down and they could probably get most of the conference schedule in at Matthews in the fall, with enough cooperation from their conference friends. There's no reason they can't adopt the NU version of the ECAC travel partner schedule to squeeze in as many games as possible while maintaining the scheduling fairness that Hockey East strives for, as long as others are willing to assist them in game swaps.
 
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That was a nice gusty road win. 13 wins was more than I expected. Whitehead played his best game of the season. Long hard battle not remotely thinking they beat BC at home but it could be closer than we think. Anyway I agree that the entire top line is going pro and Vinny too and you heard it here first the next three or four seasons until the rink is completed will likely suck in ways that are going to hurt like torture. When I say it's going to be a bad road to hoe I mean horrible. Our pipeline and bench tallent is abysmal and unless the portal saves us a few offensively gifted players I predict barring a miracle on ice we won't be hosting any bean pots for a while.
 
Merrimack coach and players said they needed to focus on Lund all night and he still got 2 assists, 9 shots on goal, and even as the OT goal was scored he had someone draped all over him.

Live to fight another day. Cam Lund has one last chance to cash in on his annual hat trick vs Boston College.
 
RossiRules said:
That was a nice gusty road win. 13 wins was more than I expected. Whitehead played his best game of the season. Long hard battle not remotely thinking they beat BC at home but it could be closer than we think. Anyway I agree that the entire top line is going pro and Vinny too and you heard it here first the next three or four seasons until the rink is completed will likely suck in ways that are going to hurt like torture. When I say it's going to be a bad road to hoe I mean horrible. Our pipeline and bench tallent is abysmal and unless the portal saves us a few offensively gifted players I predict barring a miracle on ice we won't be hosting any bean pots for a while.
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Maybe they need to think big to not fall apart the next few years but that would be expensive. How about going all out and playing all home games at the TD Garden? Let all NU students in free and get the place half full, even more when playing BC and BU.
 
Whoot BC Sucks, Well maybe not. However a solid effort defensively with 20 blocked shots. Whitehead didn't really stand on his head because he didn't need to just a solid performance. Not thinking it likely to get past a faster Maine team Thursday at the Garden but hoping it's a packed NU crowd. If we lose I can't say it was a total disappointment because any season where you beat BC when they are ranked #1 in the nation has some degree of validity.
 
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Still pinching myself (ouch!!!). Classic Jerry Keefe defense first and wait for a break plus a career game from Cam Whitehead. More drama in the last three mins than in the whole rest of the season but the hockey gods finally smiled.

Will be interesting to see who gets the late game on Thurs. NU, BU, and Maine all draw well. UConn an unknown hockeywise. If I'm NESN, I go with NU-Maine in the late game.
 
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