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Re: Birchard makes TC roster for 8 Nations!
Re: Birchard makes TC roster for 8 Nations!
Except you end up in a 6000 seat facility with 1500 bodies. Doesn't have the same feel as a banged out little barn on the Cape. Plus the costs at a facility like Hyannis will be far less than those at Tsongas.
Re: Birchard makes TC roster for 8 Nations!
I love the idea of a neutral venue, but not this location. Easy solution - schedule UMass-Lowell away on March 3rd (currently playing home and away with Providence 3/2 & 3/3) and have the event at the Tsongas Center. Keeps it close for your big attendance draws (UNH, the Boston schools), a more centralized location, would probably be a better draw for youth teams, puts some pressure on Lowell to get a DIII women's program (no chance in hell they'll go DI when they almost cut the men's program a few years back), and puts the rent money in to the pockets of a Hockey East school. Opportunity missed here imho.
Except you end up in a 6000 seat facility with 1500 bodies. Doesn't have the same feel as a banged out little barn on the Cape. Plus the costs at a facility like Hyannis will be far less than those at Tsongas.