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huskymedic said:
SBN College Hockey spit-balling:




-> 13. One of UConn or Providence - Both teams have good, not great records in Hockey East. My gut feeling would be to lean towards Providence, although UConn won the only meeting between the two so far.<-
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Of course you would ( not you medic, you the author of the piece). And your reasoning would be “After all, Providence has won titles and played at a high level for 50 years. UConn is the new kid on the block. This is college hockey. Always go with the old guard.” Oh, and Denver? Seriously? In a season when few if any fans will be allowed in the building your justification is they might sell tickets? Please...
 
freescooter said:
Of course you would ( not you medic, you the author of the piece). And your reasoning would be “After all, Providence has won titles and played at a high level for 50 years. UConn is the new kid on the block. This is college hockey. Always go with the old guard.” Oh, and Denver? Seriously? In a season when few if any fans will be allowed in the building your justification is they might sell tickets? Please...
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Also, there are very few if any out of conference games to provided comparisons between conferences. And yes, UConn is still the new kid on the block in Hockey East to many people. I'm sure many people (aside from people here on the Boneyard or associated with UConn hockey) don't realize that UConn's schedule so far has been heavily tilted towards playing the best teams in Hockey East, thus resulting in a record with more losses than a highly ranked team would normally have. It's going to take time and more games for many people to realize that UConn hockey appears to be taking a great leap forward in terms of quality, and for it to reflect in the rankings.
 
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Again, teams like Robert Morris and AIC ahead of us - I just don't get it. Damn I wish we could just play them both this weekend once and skip the HE just to punish them.
 
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Bomber36 said:
Unfortunately, I don’t think this means any of us can attend...yet.
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Athletics Limits In-Person Attendance to Friends and Families of Student-Athletes and Coaches for All Sports - University of Connecticut Athletics

UConn athletics has announced that its policy for in-person attendance at men's and women's basketball home games will be adopted for all sports until furthe...
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Spring and fall outdoor sports should allow a percentage of fans to attend. Not sure about basketball and hockey yet but I don’t think athletics can afford not to allow fans for 2 years in a row. Maybe institute a lottery system for season ticket holders/donors/students to attend some games. They have to do something.
 
JeannoCT said:
Spring and fall outdoor sports should allow a percentage of fans to attend. Not sure about basketball and hockey yet but I don’t think athletics can afford not to allow fans for 2 years in a row. Maybe institute a lottery system for season ticket holders/donors/students to attend some games. They have to do something.
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I’d love to go to some baseball games this spring.
 
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The Courant should be ashamed of their coverage of Husky Hockey. This past Saturday, with both men and women’s basketball idle the hockey game vs Merrimack was the perfect opportunity for some real coverage. Instead we get pg. 4, below a report on a Villanova game. Evans goes off for 4, what a photo op that would have been! I just don’t get it...
On another front, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a lottery for a handful of season ticket holders to get into Freitas for each game. If we’re supporting this team with donations to scholarship funds instead of cashing out our season tickets it would be a nice thank you, wouldn’t it!
Good luck tonight Huskies!
 
Brunoblue said:
The Courant should be ashamed of their coverage of Husky Hockey. This past Saturday, with both men and women’s basketball idle the hockey game vs Merrimack was the perfect opportunity for some real coverage. Instead we get pg. 4, below a report on a Villanova game. Evans goes off for 4, what a photo op that would have been! I just don’t get it...
On another front, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a lottery for a handful of season ticket holders to get into Freitas for each game. If we’re supporting this team with donations to scholarship funds instead of cashing out our season tickets it would be a nice thank you, wouldn’t it!
Good luck tonight Huskies!
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I've been singing this tune for a long time. I know there are huge cuts across the newspaper business but it seems like when they lay out the week ahead in terms of what to cover each day, the end result is usually leaving UConn hockey on the cutting room floor.
Perhaps getting to a HE final four will start to change their minds. Because it's not like nobody supports the team. Attendance numbers at the XL have proven they do....that being said there have been a few articles out the past few weeks so maybe there's finally a shift.
 
The Viking said:
I've been singing this tune for a long time. I know there are huge cuts across the newspaper business but it seems like when they lay out the week ahead in terms of what to cover each day, the end result is usually leaving UConn hockey on the cutting room floor.
Perhaps getting to a HE final four will start to change their minds. Because it's not like nobody supports the team. Attendance numbers at the XL have proven they do....that being said there have been a few articles out the past few weeks so maybe there's finally a shift.
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One other thing in terms of newspaper coverage in addition to what you said. The pandemic has made it a lot more difficult for newspapers to cover events, sports or otherwise. My wife is a newspaper reporter (not sports), so I definitely see what she has to go through to get her stories done. Very tiring.
 
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dbmill said:
One other thing in terms of newspaper coverage in addition to what you said. The pandemic has made it a lot more difficult for newspapers to cover events, sports or otherwise. My wife is a newspaper reporter (not sports), so I definitely see what she has to go through to get her stories done. Very tiring.
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The difference is, you can write a story about a game you watch online...It’s not that hard to do.
 
Bomber36 said:
The difference is, you can write a story about a game you watch online...It’s not that hard to do.
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That is true. My wife is covering things online all the time. One thing for sure, it is a lot more exhausting doing it that way. Still, the big problem is that even with covering things online, newspapers still have limited staffs in what they do cover, and they seem to be getting smaller all the time as papers lose more readers. Of course, I've always maintained that if they covered more news (including more sports) they might find that they actually might gain more readers.
 
dbmill said:
That is true. My wife is covering things online all the time. One thing for sure, it is a lot more exhausting doing it that way. Still, the big problem is that even with covering things online, newspapers still have limited staffs in what they do cover, and they seem to be getting smaller all the time as papers lose more readers. Of course, I've always maintained that if they covered more news (including more sports) they might find that they actually might gain more readers.
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You could do a book on what has happened to the news business. But I think ownership if huge. No local ownership. Trying to squeeze every dollar out of the paper to pay inflated values. And extremely slow reaction to a changing business Climate.
 
freescooter said:
You could do a book on what has happened to the news business. But I think ownership if huge. No local ownership. Trying to squeeze every dollar out of the paper to pay inflated values. And extremely slow reaction to a changing business Climate.
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I agree. And not only is there very little local ownership, most papers are now part of large corporations where these days the bottom profit line is much more important than what gets reported. And often the profits get taken away from the local paper and very little is reinvested into the newspaper itself.
 
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