UConn MHOC 2022-2023 Schedule
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Huskies Announce Home Games For 2022-23 Season - University of Connecticut Athletics
STORRS, Conn. – The UConn men's hockey team has announced their home slate for the 2022-23 campaign, with 17 games on the Huskies home ice this season.
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I do this every year since I have season tix to 3 Uconn teams. Two conflict games will be Nov 4th -FB vs. Umass at home (7pm) and hockey vs. Maine at the XL, probably at the same time, on a Friday night. Also Nov 12 FB vs. Liberty (12 noon) on Saturday with Providence TBA (4pm ?), so it's manageable, at the XL. Here's a list I put together including known hoop dates so far and I've marked any games on the same date for the 3 sports. ( Did I miss anything ?)
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Spring semester begins on Jan 17. Will enough students return early to rock the barn?
Good question, that's the on campus myth. I've donated since the 90's ( pre -Freitas) and had season tix for years. It was always been a ghost town for any January games. And even when students where on campus ( with free admission) the small numbers that did show up would trickle in and out of the rink for a period or 2 like they have something better to do.
Hopefully because kiddies love shinny new things, this will become fashionable for them and we'll see the same small venue atmosphere take over, as down at Quinnipiac. The XL Center is way to big and as attendance has dipped it's became the same as Freitas used to be on too many nights, pre Hockey East. I'm really looking forward to see how Uconn schedules (50-50 at XL like with hoops - hopefully alot less ?) with a full fall schedule available for the new rink.
Being able to jam the new building up at the start of a season with a full campus should work wonders and hopefully make it, a hot go to, and huge momentum thing /home ice advantage, that Uconn Hockey hasn't really had.
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The school did not care about the program at all, why would the students? I wouldn't draw anything from those days. And I was one of the 7 students at the games (the other 6 were dating players).
Every game should be on campus. It won't be, because they're stupid, but they all should be.
OK, respect your feelings, but I've watched it with my own eyes. It's students in general not the school. And It's got worse, not better in the last 10 years. Because of social media, they can't get off their phones, etc., student interest in sports across the board has waned. Gone to a soccer game lately? The famed goal patrol and half the students clear out by halftime. Baseball and a brand new Elliot Ballpark? Never more than probably hundred or so students in the stands. Is that a myth ? and with free admission too. Evidently they've have better things to do, have a low attention span or probably a combination of both. I've had the conversation with 2 nephews who are recent graduates about this.
It seems like hoops with the constant scoring and because it's fashionable( when they're winning, forget the KO years) is the only thing that seems to keep the kiddies attention long enough to fill the building to the end. Hopefully hockey, as the new thing that is fashionable, becomes this too.
Though I agree for hockey as a niche sport and the XL Center being to damn cavernous, it's a bad look and I'd pass on the bad atmosphere too.
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You should really stop talking down about the group that's paying more for all of this than almost anyone, the students.
If we had Netflix/social media/etc when you or I were in school, I GUARANTEE we'd be the exact same way. You give people more options in life, this is what happens.
If you want a better Goal Patrol, btw, be much better at soccer and have a remotely interesting schedule. Worked for 30 years!
If we had Netflix/social media/etc when you or I were in school, I GUARANTEE we'd be the exact same way. You give people more options in life, this is what happens.
If you want a better Goal Patrol, btw, be much better at soccer and have a remotely interesting schedule. Worked for 30 years!
LOL! Don't agree, but yep, it's the world we live in, so go ahead keep licking their egos !
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LOL! Don't agree, but yep, it's the world we live in, so go ahead keep licking their egos !
...genuinely, what don't you agree with? Then paying more isn't a theory, it's an observable fact.
I don't mind if I'm "boosting their egos" when their generation is completely screwed. God forbid we gave them a break here.
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Can you not see how incredibly condescending this sounds? You sound like a real jerk when you talk about groups of people this way.
OK here goes......Give them a break ? How about the actual Uconn players that have busted their ass over the years ? I actually played in that old joke of an outdoor arena in the 80's and know the sacrifices that were made to keep this program going by the coaches and players ( alot of them I skated with elsewhere) when this program had nothing. The known joke back then during recruiting was a new rink is coming as guys came and left 4 years later with nada.
It's the reason that I've supported and donated to the players/hockey team only at Uconn for decades, until specified sports donations became mandatory. They've been busting their ass with none of the glory or facilities of alot other sports.
Because Lew Perkins didn't care about hockey, you think it's fair the front running students, should cold shoulder the program until everything is perfect ? How about supporting your fellow students when it's not fashionable? How about showing a little backbone for a bunch of players who never got a free ride for years but still put in the work. Or for some of them that still don't now or are on partial ?
We probably agree about more than you think because you were actually out there supporting the team by attending games as a student.
But the students need to be coddled and everything should be perfect for them to come out? Nope, I'll never think like that. I think like a player and respect what they put into it, not like a fan boy.
Plus everything on campus ? ....I'd hate to see you losing your job as the Ice Bus director, but I'm sure you'd make the sacrifice.
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95% of them didn't even realize we had a team! Think about it- no promotion, rink was on the outskirts of campus and outside. How were they supposed to know or find out about the team...magic? This isn't going over the top in the Somme, it's a freaking hockey team. You weren't digging trenches, you were playing Babson and Salem State.
The student fees pay for an overwhelming percentage of the programs existence. You shouldn't be criticizing those students- if not for their fees, there wouldn't have been a program. Not even when you were skating laps by the warming hut.
You worked hard and didn't have a scholarship but make no mistake: the students pay for this program. They always have.
The best thing the program could ever do is have a REAL on campus arena and never play in Hartford. That's what real programs do. The Icebus would be packed. I'd have ten assistants.
Instead we get a shed with a bench and told this is the best we can do. A lie.
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That's a whole different story regarding no pro teams in state and Uconn's fanbase being cultivated statewide for 50 years like with hoops, not some private Boston school with 5 teams in the same zip code. But I regress and I'm not saying it wasn't overdue.
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We don’t play Vermont at home?
Don't agree, It might be now because budgets have gotten out of control, but it wasn't always like this and any major loses certainly weren't from the hockey team, who pay those fees too.
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Nope and UConn didn't play @ Gutterson last year.
Just want to put my 2 cents into the students attending sporting events debate that is going on. I don't think young people in general are just not into sports as much as previous generations. One of the reasons for this is that sports has just become too expensive for this younger generation to follow. The cost of attending games in general (I'm not talking UConn sports specifically) has gone through the roof. And in addition, it can cost quite a bit of money to watch sports on television, or for that matter, through streaming. Think how much you pay for various sports packages on cable and other viewing outlets. Because of the cost of following sports these days, many young people never became indoctrinated to viewing sporting events.
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Because the distance to Burlington and Orono, from Storrs, require long bus trips, each year the respective teams play two games at the opponent's facility. Smart scheduling.
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-> The plan, subject to change because construction is ongoing and various certifications must be obtained, is for the men’s team to play 17 home games — 12 at the XL Center in Hartford and five at the new arena, with one of those on-campus games for a student-only crowd.
Both teams’ schedules are not yet finalized.
A 16-game men’s season ticket package will be available to new and existing season ticket holders. The first 12 games will be played at the XL Center and the rest at the campus rink, scheduled to be legally and structurally prepared to host a crowd on Jan. 1.
The women are also expected to play their final five home games at the new arena after playing the first portion of their schedule at Freitas Ice Forum.
The website, likely to be live Friday morning, will also contain information on 2023-24 renewal, when fans will have more freedom to pick seats at various prices. There are tentative plans for there to be split-season ticket packages beginning in 2023-24, with games split between Storrs and Hartford similar to the basketball model.<-
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Maybe if they just built it big enough for everyone to be there who wants to.
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Those last five home games to be played in Storrs include HE games vs Northeastern, UMass, UNH and BC. Imagine how many long-time XL season ticketholders may be shut out of some on-campus games against traditional HE powerhouses.
So all of the games after Jan 1 will be played on campus for this year, but next year they move to a basketball like model....it'll be interesting to see how they handle splitting the schedule for 23/24.
It's very obvious that attendance at XL waned over the last few years but between COVID fears and the program doing almost no outreach/marketing/engagement last year, it's hard to know what the real demand at XL would even be right now.
It's very obvious that attendance at XL waned over the last few years but between COVID fears and the program doing almost no outreach/marketing/engagement last year, it's hard to know what the real demand at XL would even be right now.
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