Cornell hockey at MSG every year

[nyc94]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

Yale and Harvard will take their ancient rivalry to the bright lights of The Big Apple next season.

The schools have signed a deal to play each other at New York's Madison Square Garden on Jan. 11, the Register has learned.

Edit: with this game, Yale will play all of 4 OOC games next year: UVM, SHU, Merrimack, Holy Cross. Yikes.

Anyone want to wager on the attendance?

[RichH]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

My first reaction: "Hey, that's our turf."

It's part of a two-year contract, both schools hopeful they can play there again during the 2014-15 season.

Cornell has played to capacity crowds at Madison Square Garden in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012, with an upcoming game against Boston University there scheduled for Nov. 30.

Yale and Harvard could sell out the building's 18,200 seats. The schools have met before at Madison Square Garden, the last coming on Dec. 21, 1970.

And monkeys could fly out of my butt. (Actually, with the marketing power of those universities, it is possible)

[billhoward]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

Yale and Harvard will take their ancient rivalry to the bright lights of The Big Apple next season.
The schools have signed a deal to play each other at New York's Madison Square Garden on Jan. 11, the Register has learned.

Edit: with this game, Yale will play all of 4 OOC games next year: UVM, SHU, Merrimack, Holy Cross. Yikes.

So, credit to the people at Cornell (and BU) for nailing down Madison Square Garden before every school tries to snatch away unscheduled nights. That would include Andy Noel who's probably feeling pretty good about it right now.

A lasting image I have of him is at the Sweet Sixteen game at Syracuse, standing out in the rain, water running down his glasses, helping to shorten that incredibly long will-call line for Cornell tickets, looking for player families and others he knew so he could get them their tickets and shorten the line for everyone else.

(Then there is the stain of RedCast.)

[Jim Hyla]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

Yale and Harvard will take their ancient rivalry to the bright lights of The Big Apple next season.

The schools have signed a deal to play each other at New York's Madison Square Garden on Jan. 11, the Register has learned.

Edit: with this game, Yale will play all of 4 OOC games next year: UVM, SHU, Merrimack, Holy Cross. Yikes.

Think that tells anything about what they think of their team?

[Josh '99]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

My first reaction: "Hey, that's our turf."

It's part of a two-year contract, both schools hopeful they can play there again during the 2014-15 season.

Cornell has played to capacity crowds at Madison Square Garden in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012, with an upcoming game against Boston University there scheduled for Nov. 30.

Yale and Harvard could sell out the building's 18,200 seats. The schools have met before at Madison Square Garden, the last coming on Dec. 21, 1970.

And monkeys could fly out of my butt. (Actually, with the marketing power of those universities, it is possible)

Sure, if they trick everyone into believing it's a football game.

[billhoward]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

Yale and Harvard will take their ancient rivalry to the bright lights of The Big Apple next season.
The schools have signed a deal to play each other at New York's Madison Square Garden on Jan. 11, the Register has learned.

Edit: with this game, Yale will play all of 4 OOC games next year: UVM, SHU, Merrimack, Holy Cross. Yikes.

When Cornell played Princeton in lax this year the Inside Lacrosse Konica Minolta Bears and Tigers Big City Classic, that was the league match. Crimson and Eli are playing a third Harvard-Yale game that will be non-conference. Story says the contract could be for two years so each team could have given up one home game ... except maybe if the attendance tanks, there won't be a year two. Year one, it will sell well. Year two, it will be a struggle to see if they can keep interest up. Cornell-BU as every-odd-year makes sense and maybe we can keep interest up with a different even-years participant.

[Swampy]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

Yale and Harvard will take their ancient rivalry to the bright lights of The Big Apple next season.

The schools have signed a deal to play each other at New York's Madison Square Garden on Jan. 11, the Register has learned.

How original! Are they going to call it Big Crimson & Blue Hockey? ::wank::

[billhoward]

How original! Are they going to call it Big Crimson & Blue Hockey? ::wank::

They probably hold trademark to The Game so they'll repurpose that, no doubt. Before they'll honor all the Harvards and Yales from the 1940s who wrote the bonds that made it possible to ravage the old Pennsylvania Station for the moderne 1962 Garden.

Won't be so many inflated egos in one place since the Donald dined alone.

[Swampy]

How original! Are they going to call it Big Crimson & Blue Hockey? ::wank::

They probably hold trademark to The Game so they'll repurpose that, no doubt. Before they'll honor all the Harvards and Yales from the 1940s who wrote the bonds that made it possible to ravage the old Pennsylvania Station for the moderne 1962 Garden.

Won't be so many inflated egos in one place since the Donald dined alone.

Yes, and when they spend the night in Trump Tower and then return to their homes designed by Paul Rudolph and his disciples, they'll think how lovely the Garden is and wish they had the chance to check out Penn Station before getting into the limo. Perhaps Jane Jacobs's ghost will haunt MSG on 1/11/14. ::burnout::

[KeithK]

And monkeys could fly out of my butt. (Actually, with the marketing power of those universities, it is possible)

In March I would have said no chance, even with the marketing power of these universities. But after Yale's recent success there may be enough excitement around their hockey program (and rivalry from Cambridge) that they could sell out.

[Trotsky]

Maybe this is a Cunning Plan to gradually establish MSG as the de facto ECAC home building, in anticipation of moving the ECACs there.

"You got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make your dream come true?"

[Towerroad]

And monkeys could fly out of my butt. (Actually, with the marketing power of those universities, it is possible)

In March I would have said no chance, even with the marketing power of these universities. But after Yale's recent success there may be enough excitement around their hockey program (and rivalry from Cambridge) that they could sell out.

There would have to be a lot of Yale fans because as near as I can tell both Sucks fans will not leave Cambridge/Alston.

[Trotsky]

And monkeys could fly out of my butt. (Actually, with the marketing power of those universities, it is possible)

In March I would have said no chance, even with the marketing power of these universities. But after Yale's recent success there may be enough excitement around their hockey program (and rivalry from Cambridge) that they could sell out.

There would have to be a lot of Yale fans because as near as I can tell both Sucks fans will not leave Cambridge/Alston.

I think the idea is that the attendees dont have to leave anywhere.

[ugarte]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

My first reaction: "Hey, that's our turf."

It's part of a two-year contract, both schools hopeful they can play there again during the 2014-15 season.

Cornell has played to capacity crowds at Madison Square Garden in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012, with an upcoming game against Boston University there scheduled for Nov. 30.

Yale and Harvard could sell out the building's 18,200 seats. The schools have met before at Madison Square Garden, the last coming on Dec. 21, 1970.

And monkeys could fly out of my butt. (Actually, with the marketing power of those universities, it is possible)

Sure, if they trick everyone into believing it's a football game.

I think it sells out because the local alumni don't have to travel back to school to see the game. Plus, on the heels of the NCAA title I'll bet Yale's bandwagon is sagging under the weight of "long time fans".

[billhoward]

Yale has a drama department and I say hockey attendance among Yalies will be short-attention-span theater.