Pepsi Arena - barely occupied for ECACs?

[Jim Hyla]

[quote KeithK][q]Or better yet, not need a hotel room at all because it's doable as a day trip.[/q]You can do Lake Placid as a day trip from Ithaca.  It may make for one of my worst hockey experiences ever, but it was a day trip.  (And we didn't die sliding off the icy mountain roads while racing to get there on time - bonus!)[/quote]But the whole tourney is not a good day trip x 2. At least from Syracuse it's easy to do 2 day trips to Albany. Yeah I could do that to LP but certainly not with my family. Hell, I do Harvard as a day trip sometimes (like this year), but I don't recommend it.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote CowbellGuy]Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but from this poll, it seems like it does to a lot of people:

http://elf.elynah.com/poll/results.php?action=results&poll_id=27[/quote]You're not trying to tell us that your polls mean something are you?:-P

[DeltaOne81]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote CowbellGuy]Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but from this poll, it seems like it does to a lot of people:

http://elf.elynah.com/poll/results.php?action=results&poll_id=27[/quote]You're not trying to tell us that your polls mean something are you?:-P[/quote]

Pfff... 47% percent of polls are made up on the spot. 83% of people said they knew that.


That said, I think Albany faired well in that poll, with the assumption that it was done shortly after the announcement. Seeing as we had all just experienced the wonderful, glorious splender that was Lake Placid, at least 50% of people having no issue with the move ain't shabby. And while you may say that after people saw how awful Albany is they would have changed their mind, I expect there at *least* an equal amount of people who thought Albany would be dreadful and how think its not a bad location.

Ya know, it'd make an interesting poll in a few weeks

[KeithK]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote KeithK][q]Or better yet, not need a hotel room at all because it's doable as a day trip.[/q]You can do Lake Placid as a day trip from Ithaca.  It may make for one of my worst hockey experiences ever, but it was a day trip.  (And we didn't die sliding off the icy mountain roads while racing to get there on time - bonus!)[/quote]But the whole tourney is not a good day trip x 2. At least from Syracuse it's easy to do 2 day trips to Albany. Yeah I could do that to LP but certainly not with my family. Hell, I do Harvard as a day trip sometimes (like this year), but I don't recommend it.[/quote]I didn't say it made good day trip, whether the multiplier was 1, 2 or 3.  Heck, it was an awful day trip!  Memorable, but awful.

[RatushnyFan]

I vote for Boston........had a blast watching both tourneys (ECAC and Hockey East) back in the Gahden in the early '90's (don't know if this would be feasible anymore given stronger ticket demand from the Hockey East).

[billhoward]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote KeithK][q]Or better yet, not need a hotel room at all because it's doable as a day trip.[/q]You can do Lake Placid as a day trip from Ithaca.  It may make for one of my worst hockey experiences ever, but it was a day trip.  (And we didn't die sliding off the icy mountain roads while racing to get there on time - bonus!)[/quote]But the whole tourney is not a good day trip x 2. At least from Syracuse it's easy to do 2 day trips to Albany. Yeah I could do that to LP but certainly not with my family. Hell, I do Harvard as a day trip sometimes (like this year), but I don't recommend it.[/quote]

To some super-fans, you're probably a lousy fan becasue you don't drop all other responsbilities for hockey. Things like kids who play sports on weekends makes it pretty hard to do anything other than long one-day trips. We love Lake Placid becasue we have a place in Keene 15 miles away. But did we go up for the ECACs? Um, more often not. It's a long haul. Once you're there, it's romantic. But the main drag through Lake Placid is now a string of outlet stores. It's Albany with higher gas prices.

[billhoward]

[quote RatushnyFan]I vote for Boston........had a blast watching both tourneys (ECAC and Hockey East) back in the Gahden in the early '90's (don't know if this would be feasible anymore given stronger ticket demand from the Hockey East).[/quote]
Consider the travel distances for the teams:
- Harvard. The SOBs gets to sleep in their own beds.
- Dartmouth. They'd be happy.
- Cornell, 375 miles.
- Colgate, almost 375 miles.
- St. Lawrence, if they'd beaten Harvard and made it (sheesh, the Larries let us down), about two days over 2-lane roads.

[KeithK]

[quote billhoward]To some super-fans, you're probably a lousy fan becasue you don't drop all other responsbilities for hockey. Things like kids who play sports on weekends makes it pretty hard to do anything other than long one-day trips. We love Lake Placid becasue we have a place in Keene 15 miles away. But did we go up for the ECACs? Um, more often not. It's a long haul. Once you're there, it's romantic. But the main drag through Lake Placid is now a string of outlet stores. It's Albany with higher gas prices.[/quote]How dare you post on this board if you're not willing to drop everything and make it to every Cornell playoff game!Every regular season game too!  Priorities, man!   The sheer unmitigated gall of some people!  


Guess I should stop posting now...

[billhoward]

[quote KeithK][quote billhoward]To some super-fans, you're probably a lousy fan becasue you don't drop all other responsbilities for hockey. Things like kids who play sports on weekends makes it pretty hard to do anything other than long one-day trips. We love Lake Placid becasue we have a place in Keene 15 miles away. But did we go up for the ECACs? Um, more often not. It's a long haul. Once you're there, it's romantic. But the main drag through Lake Placid is now a string of outlet stores. It's Albany with higher gas prices.[/quote]How dare you post on this board if you're not willing to drop everything and make it to every Cornell playoff game!Every regular season game too!  Priorities, man!   The sheer unmitigated gall of some poeple!  

Guess I should stop posting now...[/quote]

Until the weather reports sounded lousy, I was a 50-50 go for the Duke game (lacrosse). That'd be a 800-mile trip in one day, which I've done before, but not with a 2-1/2 hour stop for a lacrosse game in the middle. Last time I did one that far, also into the (South) Carolinas, was the day the law caught up with the Beltway shooter. eLynah chauvinists will realize they had their chance to make the forum a gentler place and blew it ...

But, damn, it does feel good to be able to manage to make ten Cornell hockey games over the course of a year. My kids love the Lynah acoustics and when everyone shouts "Clarkson sucks," they hear even worse. They are still getting acclimated to white clam pizza at Pepe's in New Haven before the Yale / Deertick games. Thank you for that one, Al.

[RatushnyFan]

[quote billhoward][quote RatushnyFan]I vote for Boston........had a blast watching both tourneys (ECAC and Hockey East) back in the Gahden in the early '90's (don't know if this would be feasible anymore given stronger ticket demand from the Hockey East).[/quote]
Consider the travel distances for the teams:
- Harvard. The SOBs gets to sleep in their own beds.
- Dartmouth. They'd be happy.
- Cornell, 375 miles.
- Colgate, almost 375 miles.
- St. Lawrence, if they'd beaten Harvard and made it (sheesh, the Larries let us down), about two days over 2-lane roads.[/quote]
Yes, but Harvard might actually get some attendance then (would make for a better atmosphere) and the Faithful were always well represented in Boston.  And Colgate, well, I just don't care about their perspective.  I thought it was a much better college hockey atmosphere.

[billhoward]

[quote RatushnyFan][quote billhoward][quote RatushnyFan]I vote for Boston........had a blast watching both tourneys (ECAC and Hockey East) back in the Gahden in the early '90's (don't know if this would be feasible anymore given stronger ticket demand from the Hockey East).[/quote]
Consider the travel distances for the teams:
- Harvard. The SOBs gets to sleep in their own beds.
- Dartmouth. They'd be happy.
- Cornell, 375 miles.
- Colgate, almost 375 miles.
- St. Lawrence, if they'd beaten Harvard and made it (sheesh, the Larries let us down), about two days over 2-lane roads.[/quote]
Yes, but Harvard might actually get some attendance then (would make for a better atmosphere) and the Faithful were always well represented in Boston.  And Colgate, well, I just don't care about their perspective.  I thought it was a much better college hockey atmosphere.[/quote]
Yes, the old and new Boston Gardens were awesome places for hockey. Greater Boston is the city with the most college hockey in America on any given weekend. But the geo-center of the ECAC(HL) is Albany, or Pittsfield, Mass., or Lime Rock, Conn. (If I really wanted to waste time, I'd do  a lat/long lookup of the schools and calcuate the average.) We need to heed Horace Greeley.

[schoaff]

[quote billhoward][quote RatushnyFan][quote billhoward][quote RatushnyFan]I vote for Boston........had a blast watching both tourneys (ECAC and Hockey East) back in the Gahden in the early '90's (don't know if this would be feasible anymore given stronger ticket demand from the Hockey East).[/quote]
Consider the travel distances for the teams:
- Harvard. The SOBs gets to sleep in their own beds.
- Dartmouth. They'd be happy.
- Cornell, 375 miles.
- Colgate, almost 375 miles.
- St. Lawrence, if they'd beaten Harvard and made it (sheesh, the Larries let us down), about two days over 2-lane roads.[/quote]
Yes, but Harvard might actually get some attendance then (would make for a better atmosphere) and the Faithful were always well represented in Boston.  And Colgate, well, I just don't care about their perspective.  I thought it was a much better college hockey atmosphere.[/quote]
Yes, the old and new Boston Gardens were awesome places for hockey. Greater Boston is the city with the most college hockey in America on any given weekend. But the geo-center of the ECAC(HL) is Albany, or Pittsfield, Mass., or Lime Rock, Conn. (If I really wanted to waste time, I'd do  a lat/long lookup of the schools and calcuate the average.) We need to heed Horace Greeley.[/quote]

That, and I suspect it's a heck of a lot cheaper to rent the Pepsi Arena than the Boston Garden.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote schoaff]
That, and I suspect it's a heck of a lot cheaper to rent the Pepsi Arena than the Boston Garden.[/quote]
And you don't have that annoying little Hockey East tournament wanting the same dates.

[Rob NH]

[quote billhoward]Yes, the old and new Boston Gardens were awesome places for hockey.[/quote]
Speak for yourself, the new "Garden" frankly sucks, the balcony is set waaaaay too far back, the one in the old Garden started 12 rows from the ice (if I remember correctly).
"I knew the Boston Garden, and you sir are no Boston Garden."