What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

[sandiegoblkbr]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

I would take Alfond over a bunch of places.

You can have it!

Give me a 7,000 seat oval with chairbacks and leg room, and modern restrooms and concessions.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

You can have it!

Give me a 7,000 seat oval with chairbacks and leg room, and modern restrooms and concessions.

I've never seen Alfond, but be careful what you wish for, as far as i'm concerned, good sightlines should be the most important. I've been in many standard bowl style, oval arenas with terrible sightlines.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

As I learned today, the water in the Men's room on the visitor's side eventually does get hot.

You just have to run the faucet for at least three minutes.

This is the polar opposite of RPI's Houston Field House, where the hot water blows out of the tap at baby scalding, fingerprint melting temps...

 

[Blackheart]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

none! Thanks Ralph!

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

none! Thanks Ralph!

The one improvement i've noticed for the ralph....when i got tickets in the bar there, captain coke was the free pregame drink, it would be much better if the drink was whiskey instead of rum.

 

[Blackheart]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

The one improvement i've noticed for the ralph....when i got tickets in the bar there, captain coke was the free pregame drink, it would be much better if the drink was whiskey instead of rum.

That's nitpicking, isn't it?

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

That's nitpicking, isn't it?

no. rum is for *******.

 

[HoosierPioneer]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

Mullins Center needs another compressor. There is the main ice surface, and a practice rink in an anjoining building, with only one compressor for both surfaces. I have skated on Mullins many times, and often the ice is soft and slushy, which could be improved by adding a second compressor.

Same for Magness Arena- the ice is often sketchy. Of course the basketball team doesn't help that either. But Pepsi Center has 2 chillers for 1 sheet.

We could also stand a freaking goal horn and wider concourses- they're wide in most spots and narrow in the most inconvenient of places at the end of games. The music played before the DU lineup is introduced is quiet and reserved- not just family friendly, grandma friendly. Turn it up!

 

[Agganis]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

I've never seen Alfond, but be careful what you wish for, as far as i'm concerned, good sightlines should be the most important. I've been in many standard bowl style, oval arenas with terrible sightlines.

There is a large portion of 4 different sections in Alfond that can't see one of the goals, and the back few rows of the lower level in one of the endzones can't see the main scoreboard. A standard bowl could not be a downgrade, at least in terms of sightlines.

 

[Arwen22266]

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Absolutely concur - the restrooms are an anachronism. Without going into too much detail, there seems to be a flow problem in the Men's facilities.
Also, on the concourse would like marble floors and for viewing would like heated chairs.

Marble floors and heated chairs? Visions of Engelstad, my friend?

 

[RoughEmUp]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

Enlightened security at Agganis. And the food is atrocious.

 

[Red Till I'm Dead!]

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From the "Too Late To Do Anything About It Unless You Want To Build A Brand New Building" department:

Terrible corner sightlines.
Obstructed views in the third tier.

Otherwise, we're fine. If the Coliseum was the Montreal Forum of college hockey, I'm okay with the fact that we now have the Bell Centre of college hockey.

Yes the Kohl was designed for base-ketball, not hockey. Hockey was a by product so the UW could save money and not have to pay rent to the Coliseum.

And it needs BEER!!!!!!!

 

[FiveHole12]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

Now that we've gotten opinions on the uprades you feel your arena needs, let's hear what type of upgrades you think would improve your arena.

 

[Red Till I'm Dead!]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

The Kohl Center could use a reduction of about half its' Per Mar staff.

What wrong with them...have you gotten kicked out
Sorry, my father is the #2 for Per Mar and the kohl.
Before UW built the kohl, I was able to go to all games at the fieldhouse for free
But we always have season tickets to all the hockey games.

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

What wrong with them...have you gotten kicked out
Sorry, my father is the #2 for Per Mar and the kohl.
Before UW built the kohl, I was able to go to all games at the fieldhouse for free
But we always have season tickets to all the hockey games.

I was once given a talking to because I was referring to a UMD player as "Goldilocks" as the Bulldogs were going to their dressing room at the end of a period. So, yeah... Per Mar can eat it. I'm sure that for the most part, Per Mar being a bunch of uptight, anal folk is because that's how the UW Athletic Dept. wants it (see also: the sign/flag policy). But still...

Also, hockey games were at the Coliseum, bouncyball was at the fieldhouse. Just so you're clear...

 

[jstadts]

Re: What facility uprades does your team's rink in need?

I have said for years that The Houston Field House (RPI) could be improved tremendously without spending a ton of money simply by making the seating into an oval shape insted of the current rectangular arrangement.They should also invest in some paint so they can get rid of all the blue seats which have been a mystery to me for years as blue has never been a school color.

 

[redhead18]

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They should also invest in some paint so they can get rid of all the blue seats which have been a mystery to me for years as blue has never been a school color.

Agree, everyone I bring to HFH asks me why half the seats are blue and the other half red. Make them all red or cover the blue up with black paint.
Also, wishful thinking here but Id like to see the walkway around the glass be moved up behind the seats somehow, theres nothing more frustrating then trying to watch the game while the late arrivals walk by in front of you trying to find there seats.

 

[Badger Booster]

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I was once given a talking to because I was referring to a UMD player as "Goldilocks" as the Bulldogs were going to their dressing room at the end of a period. So, yeah... Per Mar can eat it. I'm sure that for the most part, Per Mar being a bunch of uptight, anal folk is because that's how the UW Athletic Dept. wants it (see also: the sign/flag policy). But still...

Also, hockey games were at the Coliseum, bouncyball was at the fieldhouse. Just so you're clear...

I got threatened with expulsion after throwing my hat on the ice for a hat trick at a Wisconsin women's game. I'll admit, I'm not sure what happens to hats that get thrown on ice at most arenas, but I'm pretty sure it isn't a power-hungry security guard getting to take it home with him which is what happened.

I'd like to see another tier of pricing (lower) for the third level seating, especially for the previously mentioned obstructed views. It's depressing seeing big chuncks of open seating in the third deck even for some conference games.

As a total pipe dream, I'd like to see an underground tunnel back to the State Street so people could get a drink during the intermissions.

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

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Union's Messa Rink = Hopeless. Call in the airstrike.

 

[hanasoni]

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Re: What facility upgrades does your team's rink in need?

I have said for years that The Houston Field House (RPI) could be improved tremendously without spending a ton of money simply by making the seating into an oval shape insted of the current rectangular arrangement.They should also invest in some paint so they can get rid of all the blue seats which have been a mystery to me for years as blue has never been a school color.

At Ferris we don't believe in matching team colors to the color of signs, etc around campus. Whenever we get a new president and they change the signage around campus we get a different color; we've even had purple, blue and green signs, even though our team colors are Crimson and Gold. I think those colors have even recently changed, as the hockey jerseys seem more red than crimson.

Oh well.

Oh, back to the original thread, we need at least a new name so people can pronounce it, (now called "Ewigleben Ice Arena" after the president that was here when hockey started), but what we really need is a new arena. Granted, it's a fun venue when packed, but it's old and small with low ceilings. The stands are only on one side and two ends. We've had some recent uprgades, mechanically (seamless glass, new compressors, etc). The pressbox, lobby, and locker rooms have been recently upgraded (very nice job, especially the varsity locker room), but it's still old with a low ceiling.

Probably not a good time to build, though, considering the current Michigan economy.

Oh well.