doesn't necessarily say second rink, it's hazy as to whether it'd be a new arena or just new facilities. if it's facilities with no new arena/allow for expansion to current arena, it seems pointless.
Yeah, the 10ish mill seems like a lowball number for the kind of work Frietas needs to be Hockey East compliant. I wish the link to the PDF of the assessment on the Courant's website actually worked.
Although such expansion would not exactly be *pointless* (the two hockey coaches at UConn have identified the need for, amongst other things, more dedicated office/study space for staff and student-athletes near the arena, and separate dressing facilities for coaches and officials (where they currently share), per the athletics master plan in 2004; I could not say what they've addressed in the years since), as even if the XL were to (vomit) become the new home of hockey, the team (plus EO and the Ice Dogs) still needs a place to practice and what-not.
Off campus sites are unprecedented in college hockey. The only major conference team in the country that plays off campus is Nebraska-Omaha, and they play five miles off campus in a downtown arena. Playing in front of 14,000 empty seats in Hartford is not a viable plan except for a very temporary period of time.
Well, Quinnipiac's rink is only "on-campus" by a very tenuous thread, although it seems that since I've last been there (like the arena, hate the fans), they have added actual student buildings other than the sports arenas.
Make it look like an accident!!!
