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Post by Sons of Vaval on Oct 28, 2016 11:18:56 GMT -5
Good chance for a couple of wins against the ECAC in the next several days. Brown was picked to finish near the bottom of the conference, while Union in the middle of the pack. Union is 4-1-1 this year, with wins of Michigan, AIC, Niagara, and RIT. Brown's opener is against HC tonight.
First game at the Hart this season.
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Post by bfoley82 on Oct 28, 2016 13:10:32 GMT -5
Good chance for a couple of wins against the ECAC in the next several days. Brown was picked to finish near the bottom of the conference, while Union in the middle of the pack. Union is 4-1-1 this year, with wins of Michigan, AIC, Niagara, and RIT. Brown's opener is against HC tonight. First game at the Hart this season. I will be at both games and both AIC games next week....Looking forward to it!
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Post by nhteamer on Oct 28, 2016 13:45:45 GMT -5
I live for the AIC game.
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Post by purplehaze on Oct 28, 2016 15:18:46 GMT -5
i'll be disappointed if tonight's game is not a near sell-out. a weekend night game (something the basketball teams never get) should get the students excited.
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Post by HC92 on Oct 28, 2016 19:47:13 GMT -5
2-0 HC early in the third.
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Post by HC92 on Oct 28, 2016 20:11:23 GMT -5
3-0. 3:25 left.
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Post by HC92 on Oct 28, 2016 20:15:20 GMT -5
3-0. Final. Winning is fun.
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Post by sader1970 on Oct 28, 2016 20:58:12 GMT -5
Beating Brown in any sport is fun when you live in RI (or PC or URI, or even Bryant). Thanks for the good news.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 28, 2016 21:12:37 GMT -5
Attendance--921 Capacity 1400 ?
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Post by bringbackcaro on Oct 28, 2016 21:17:32 GMT -5
9 posts, 921 in attendance, and we want to make a huge investment to bring this program into the Hockey East? I would be very interested to see the cost-benefit analysis..
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Post by bfoley82 on Oct 28, 2016 22:03:52 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Oct 29, 2016 16:34:55 GMT -5
9 posts, 921 in attendance, and we want to make a huge investment to bring this program into the Hockey East? I would be very interested to see the cost-benefit analysis.. If you read what ADNP said about HC choosing not to spend the money to expand the rink, i.e., HC doesn't get the attendance to justify the cost, he said similar early-on when discussing shifting basketball conferences. Attendance is not there at this time to make HC an attractive candidate for joining a higher level conference/league. If the Railers were pulling in under 1,000 a game, the posters on this board would be running them out of the DCU on a rail. I have seen no one suggest that HE would accept HC playing home games against BC, BU, and Providence at the DCU, and against the rest of the conference at the Hart. I believe half the conference home games are on a weeknight. IMO, for HE, that's a big image problem for a supposed premiere conference: having a conference team playing in a Div III rink (roughly half the size of Merrimack.) . .
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Oct 29, 2016 16:59:06 GMT -5
9 posts, 921 in attendance, and we want to make a huge investment to bring this program into the Hockey East? I would be very interested to see the cost-benefit analysis.. Weren't there roughly 4K at the DCU last weekend for the BC game?
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 29, 2016 19:14:14 GMT -5
That sounds like a key..."for the BC game" may have brought in more than those who were there "for the HC Game."
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Post by hchoops on Oct 29, 2016 19:55:17 GMT -5
Nothing on Live Stats 2 hours after the game started
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Post by HC13 on Oct 29, 2016 19:59:58 GMT -5
What game?
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 29, 2016 20:05:41 GMT -5
Today's Results: Women's Soccer - lost to Loyola 1-0 Field Hockey - lost to Lock Haven 3-2 Football - lost to Colgate 26-8 Volleyball - beat Loyola 3-1 Women's Ice Hockey - beat Sacred Heart 3-2 and Cross Country (Women 3rd / Men 7th)
The men play Union on Tuesday (7:05pm)
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Post by hchoops on Oct 29, 2016 20:10:24 GMT -5
My error i thoought the Union game was tonight
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Post by bringbackcaro on Oct 29, 2016 22:28:47 GMT -5
9 posts, 921 in attendance, and we want to make a huge investment to bring this program into the Hockey East? I would be very interested to see the cost-benefit analysis.. Weren't there roughly 4K at the DCU last weekend for the BC game? Is that our ceiling? Just under 4K for BC, filling 1/3 of the DCU Center, or about 1/2 with the curtains covering the upper sections? That's worth a multi-million dollar annual budget increase? Also, the idea that Hockey has the highest amount of support from the student body is pretty much a myth that was developed during some terrible basketball years. If the basketball team is successful, basketball games and football tailgates both draw far more students that hockey, and joining the Hockey East isn't really going to change that.
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Post by cruskater31 on Oct 30, 2016 0:34:12 GMT -5
Weren't there roughly 4K at the DCU last weekend for the BC game? Is that our ceiling? Just under 4K for BC, filling 1/3 of the DCU Center, or about 1/2 with the curtains covering the upper sections? That's worth a multi-million dollar annual budget increase? Also, the idea that Hockey has the highest amount of support from the student body is pretty much a myth that was developed during some terrible basketball years. If the basketball team is successful, basketball games and football tailgates both draw far more students that hockey, and joining the Hockey East isn't really going to change that. I agree, although football, even on homecoming and family weekend hasnt drawn the fan support liked it did in years past, even as recently as my time on the hill (07-11). Hockey and football had nearly the same attendance last weekend but the DCU looked a lot better environment wise than Fitton. I think wherever we put the best on ice/field/court product is where people will show up. I'd choose HC-BC in almost any sport (even futbol) over an HC-Bucknell football game (although I still loathe Bucknell bball from those Willard years) or HC-BU basketball just as examples. Bring in big teams with big following and people will show up. Look at BC football attendance versus FSU, Clemson, and ND versus UMass, Wagner, or even 'Cuse.
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Post by zambonihomie13 on Oct 30, 2016 20:07:23 GMT -5
Weren't there roughly 4K at the DCU last weekend for the BC game? Is that our ceiling? Just under 4K for BC, filling 1/3 of the DCU Center, or about 1/2 with the curtains covering the upper sections? That's worth a multi-million dollar annual budget increase? Also, the idea that Hockey has the highest amount of support from the student body is pretty much a myth that was developed during some terrible basketball years. If the basketball team is successful, basketball games and football tailgates both draw far more students that hockey, and joining the Hockey East isn't really going to change that. Well it was just announced that the women will be moving up to D1, and are in need of a conference, so the budget will be increasing regardless. Also football tailgates draw student support, but not football games. Hockey may never draw more students than basketball all things being equal, but things aren't equal. The ACC isn't looking at HC to round out it's conference in basketball. HE is. The basketball team would kill for 4 thousand in attendance, when was the last time that happened. If we were looking at everything in terms of it's return on investment, HC would have gone D3 long ago.
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Post by bringbackcaro on Oct 30, 2016 20:44:17 GMT -5
Is that our ceiling? Just under 4K for BC, filling 1/3 of the DCU Center, or about 1/2 with the curtains covering the upper sections? That's worth a multi-million dollar annual budget increase? Also, the idea that Hockey has the highest amount of support from the student body is pretty much a myth that was developed during some terrible basketball years. If the basketball team is successful, basketball games and football tailgates both draw far more students that hockey, and joining the Hockey East isn't really going to change that. Well it was just announced that the women will be moving up to D1, and are in need of a conference, so the budget will be increasing regardless. Also football tailgates draw student support, but not football games. Hockey may never draw more students than basketball all things being equal, but things aren't equal. The ACC isn't looking at HC to round out it's conference in basketball. HE is. The basketball team would kill for 4 thousand in attendance, when was the last time that happened. If we were looking at everything in terms of it's return on investment, HC would have gone D3 long ago. The hockey team being in the Hockey East is not equivalent to basketball being in the ACC. Not even in the stratosphere. Probably not even equal to being in the A-10, which would be a much greater play if we were to make a multi-million dollar investment into increasing annual budgets.
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Post by zambonihomie13 on Oct 31, 2016 10:19:11 GMT -5
Hockey East is arguably the best hockey conference in the nation. The ACC is arguably the best basketball conference in the nation. That is all I was trying to say. Obviously big-time college hockey doesn't compare to big-time college basketball, but there are no foreseeable avenues to HC ever being in big-time basketball.
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Post by matunuck on Oct 31, 2016 11:42:38 GMT -5
So true. We are never going to play in the best basketball or football conference obviously -- not even remotely close. But we may have an opportunity to play in the best hockey conference. Nate Pine understands this and will get HC in HE. Count on it.
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Post by zambonihomie13 on Oct 31, 2016 13:05:15 GMT -5
FWIW: ESPN's John Buccigross giving HC some love to his 324k twitter followers:
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