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UConn v. Notre Dame in Hockey East home-and-home series 1/16 & 1/18

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gampelcrazies said:
Is their a reason why this game wasn't played in Hartford????
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They weren't forced to schedule a game for today, Medic. Like I said in the other thread, there was nothing to stop them from playing a 12:00PM matinee on MLK day tomorrow at the XLC.
 
TheDoggPound said:
They weren't forced to schedule a game for today, Medic. Like I said in the other thread, there was nothing to stop them from playing a 12:00PM matinee on MLK day tomorrow at the XLC.
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If it was going to be this weekend - that's why. Guess it also depends on what the other team wants to do as well - no? ND is coming back east for NE next Friday/Sat.
 
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TheDoggPound said:
They weren't forced to schedule a game for today, Medic. Like I said in the other thread, there was nothing to stop them from playing a 12:00PM matinee on MLK day tomorrow at the XLC.
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HE doesn't schedule Monday games because it massively disadvantages both teams in the subsequent weekend series, especially ND who would have to travel back to South Bend Monday night then turn around and come back <72 hours later.. The only exception to this is the Beanpot.
 
huskymedic said:
If it was going to be this weekend - that's why. Guess it also depends on what the other team wants to do as well - no?
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ND doesn't play again until Friday in Boston, I don't see a conflict there. It would have probably been beneficial for both teams to get more than 1 day rest after flying in from South Bend. Maybe it's just me but UConn has to have one of the worst schedules in Hockey East. 14/15 of our road games are played on either Friday/Saturday (making road games as daunting and exhausting as possible for us); conversely our home schedule breakdown is as follows: 4 Tuesday games, 2 Wednesday games, 3 Friday games, 3 Saturday games & 2 Sunday home games. Much easier task for our opponents who play us on the road. I'm not going to lose sleep over what these other programs want we we're getting shafted. UConn needs to think about UConn. And that starts with no more Bridgeport and culminates in securing better dates for our home games.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
HE doesn't schedule Monday games because it massively disadvantages both teams in the subsequent weekend series, especially ND who would have to travel back to South Bend Monday night then turn around and come back <72 hours later.. The only exception to this is the Beanpot.
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They're traveling back to South Bend and flying back to Boston? That's insane but thank you for the info.
 
Disregard my first sentence of post #68 but the rest stands. UConn has a crummy home schedule and our road schedule is as favorable as favorable can be for our opponents.
 
TheDoggPound said:
Disregard my first sentence of post #68 but the rest stands. UConn has a crummy home schedule and our road schedule is as favorable as favorable can be for our opponents.
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No problem - I get the sentiment but we are FNG in conference - kinda expected.
 
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Sucks there's no more UConn games at Bridgeport. The size of the crowds have been surprising considering the schools UConn played in Bridgeport (QU, CC, UMass-Lowell, ND) and the popularity of high school hockey in Fairfield County. Something doesn't add up here. I know SHU is intent on forging ahead if they can. On-campus rink for the school and Notre Dame-Fairfield (and maybe Fairfield Prep).

The NCAA regionals do well in Bridgeport. The crowd today was over 2K, I'd say maybe 3K. The free AHL game afterwards was nice, too. No post game handshake between the Sound Tigers and Crunch, though. They were about to brawl.
 
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TheDoggPound said:
They are according to a Mike Anthony tweet.

https://twitter.com/ManthonyCourant/status/556901294791983105
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Great that that's the case. And yes, as far as I know that's what ND is doing. School is in session now, so there's no reason for them to stay here for four days unnecessarily. Plus, you can get flights direct from NYC to South Bend.

And if you want better scheduling for games, two words: on campus. Stay in Hartford, it'll continue to be Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays, and not on TV.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
And if you want better scheduling for games, two words: on campus. Stay in Hartford, it'll continue to be Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays, and not on TV.
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I already went over this in a past thread but the whole 'XL Center has too much going on to have a good schedule' is a complete and utter falsehood. Wolf Pack had 32/36 of their games on weekends (that's virtually unheard of, won't be the case next season), AHL is reducing it's schedule opening up more dates (anywhere from 2-4 less WP home games), there's always room for additional hockey double headers and there were 7 premium dates that sat vacant the whole season which could have been utilized.

UConn just needs to get it's stuff together and schedule better.
 
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TheDoggPound said:
I already went over this in a past thread but the whole 'XL Center has too much going on to have a good schedule' is a complete and utter falsehood. Wolf Pack had 32/36 of their games on weekends (that's virtually unheard of, won't be the case next season), AHL is reducing it's schedule opening up more dates (anywhere from 2-4 less WP home games), there's always room for additional hockey double headers and there were 7 premium dates that sat vacant the whole season which could have been utilized.

UConn just needs to get it's stuff together and schedule better.
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Don't forget concerts and other events like the Disney on Ice today. Those all get preference.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Don't forget concerts and other events like the Disney on Ice today. Those all get preference.
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With all those concerts and performances there was still 7 premium dates completely open for UConn to schedule around but instead chose to schedule games on weekdays.

And this is before delving into my point that the WP will have less premium dates next year in addition to less home games overall. Plus there is always room for additional doubleheaders.

Concerning your point on the television side of things you're completely speculating that the XLC is the reason they have no home games on air.
 
Also the CRDA could step in and recommend UConn gets an increase in preferred dates since their games bring more $ into the arena and surrounding downtown.
 
dvegas said:
http://www.ctpost.com/uconn/article/Brian-Koonz-UConn-hockey-experiment-fails-in-6024313.php
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Not to defend Bridgeport entirely; but, a lot of people could not physically make it to the game yesterday, including myself (with 4 tickets) as the road conditions were a nightmare. When I bought the tickets last weekend, the lower seats were all gone. I think it would have dranw well maybe 5K to 7K. If I was younger and was not bringing my kids, I may have risked it. Remember several basketball games in the 90's, a G-Town game at the Civic Center in particular, when I went during a blizzard, bought nose bleed seats and sat near the court because it never occurred to be that I could be one of the several dozen cars I went by that were off the road or crashed.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Great that that's the case. And yes, as far as I know that's what ND is doing. School is in session now, so there's no reason for them to stay here for four days unnecessarily. Plus, you can get flights direct from NYC to South Bend.

And if you want better scheduling for games, two words: on campus. Stay in Hartford, it'll continue to be Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays, and not on TV.
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And this another reason why an on campus arena is needed. It gives you the ultimate flexibility in scheduling games, and you don't have to worry so much about availability of dates in Hartford.
 
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I find it more and more difficult to attend Uconn events as it seems I just spend more time focusing on attendance and why people don't come to out, and how that will effect our future. I spend more time thinking this way than actually enjoying the event I'm attending half of the time....... The ND game was a prime example.
 
worst weather possible. easier to drive in a foot of snow an hour. They sold/comped 4500 tickets.. 20 minute drive from Norwalk was 45 at 1130. If I lived north i would have eaten my tickets. I would have gone to the SMU football game if it was a 15 minute drive. But not from Norwalk Fir the hockey what really sucked was all the carpet bagger domers who took the train. I think the concept is right but the execution is wrong. Reality is that if we are selling NYC mkt to Big Ten, hockey will be a part. And there is tons of money and support in FFLD County. Hopefully they will figure it out and get it to work. hoops can have Hartford.
 
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