Cornell hockey at MSG every year

[Anne 85]

I like what the architects did with the addition to Sage Hall and the Physical Sciences Building (that's the one where they basically built a new building around the older ones, right?).  Can't think of any others that are memorable in a good way.

[Swampy]

The current MSG is a dump and will not be much missed, but surely you are not naïve enough to believe that the Port Authority will restore Penn Station to its former glory...?

The entire Northeast corridor jumped the shark decades ago and I don't expect anything beautiful to ever be built (or rebuilt) there again.  Primarily I just want the pig pen that is the current Penn Station gone.  If the way to do that is to dynamite MSG, that's fine by me, it's just as nondescript as the Coliseum and the world will be no poorer without either.

Given the way this country is going, maybe they could feed homeless people to lions there. It would solve several problems.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

The current MSG is a dump and will not be much missed, but surely you are not naïve enough to believe that the Port Authority will restore Penn Station to its former glory...?

The entire Northeast corridor jumped the shark decades ago and I don't expect anything beautiful to ever be built (or rebuilt) there again.  Primarily I just want the pig pen that is the current Penn Station gone.  If the way to do that is to dynamite MSG, that's fine by me, it's just as nondescript as the Coliseum and the world will be no poorer without either.

Given the way this country is going, maybe they could feed homeless people to lions there. It would solve several problems.

Snake Plissken!  I thought you were dead!

[srg1]

I am just confused how someone can call MSG a dump after the most recent renovation.  It is now like a brand new arena.

[Trotsky]

I am just confused how someone can call MSG a dump after the most recent renovation.  It is now like a brand new arena.

Not necessarily MSG, but a place can be a "dump" from the instant it opens.

[Rosey]

I am just confused how someone can call MSG a dump after the most recent renovation.  It is now like a brand new arena.

Half the seats still don't have cupholders. I mean... WTF?

I'm also a big fan of seamless glass. Stanchions are so 1980's.

[RatushnyFan]

My wife and I organized a group of about 40 (youth hockey players and family members) to go to the game..........hope we hammer BU like we did Michigan last year!!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I am just confused how someone can call MSG a dump after the most recent renovation.  It is now like a brand new arena.

Not necessarily MSG, but a place can be a "dump" from the instant it opens.

I wouldn't call it a dump.  But it was a very weird place to watch a ball game - more concrete than Vet Stadium, and that's saying something!

[Josh '99]

I do not think Michigan State travels well as much as I would love to watch a Cornell-Sparty game, and unlike programs like Michigan, Notre Dame, and Penn State MSU does not have as many national fans who are unaffiliated with the University which would be a major detriment to selling out The Garden. From what I know, I may be wrong, Sparty does not refuse to travel East, so I think Michigan State would be better suited for a biannual home-and-home at Munn and Lynah.

I hope BU-Cornell in odd years continues as RHH editions of the Frozen Apple. I think using The Garden as a "Lynah Southeast" to get out-of-conference opponents that will not abide by Schaferian game reciprocity like Cornell did with Michigan should be considered when deciding opponents in even years. Applying this idea I'm left with two non-traveling or generally non-traveling opponents that I would like to see at the Frozen Apple: Minnesota and Wisconsin.

I would love to see the Big Red face off against the Gophers. And, the choice of Wisconsin (after getting my wish for a game against Michigan), is the next logical choice. Boston College fits this regime, but I am not obsessed with playing a very successful team that has relatively mediocre fan support in a venue as large as The Garden.

Two programs that do not or have not established a non-traveling principle that I'd like to see at future editions of the Frozen Apple are Notre Dame and Penn State. Notre Dame and Penn State have a considerable prominence of fans who are otherwise unaffiliated with either university in the New York market and that combined with the popularity of hockey in New York could draw in many passerby fans. Notre Dame, like Michigan and Penn State, have large alumni bases in New York City that will help the draw of the game. Notre Dame is nearly always competitive at the highest level of the sport having two Frozen Four appearances in the last five years. I think it'd be a fun game that might not be as lively as a game against a Michigan or Wisconsin, but would sell out just as easily.

The comments from css228 are exactly correct regarding Penn State. The large alumni base of Penn Staters in New York City and the ready access to Manhattan for the largest density of Penn State alumni in Philadelphia lends itself to good attendance numbers. Penn State fans turn out for even intercollegiate dance sport. They would undoubtedly turn out for a clash between their favored school or alma mater, and Cornell,a fellow land-grant university and a collegiate hockey program has a lot of respect from current top officials in Penn State hockey.Regarding Penn State's level of competitiveness, its program sits at 5-4-0 against Division I programs including beating RIT at Blue Cross Arena and splitting with Air Force with a commanding 5-1 game. The Nittany Lions were swept by Union, but Ken Schott said that Union was lucky to have not surrended a win to a very young and very talented first-year-NCAA Penn State team. The first game of that series ended 2-0 with an ENG and Penn State suffered a disallowed goal that would have tied the game. Penn State's later season games against Ohio State or Miami in Pittsburgh, Michigan State, and Wisconsin will be telling as to if Cornell should begin considering them for the 2014 Frozen Apple (assuming that RHH is 2013).

Since the quoted message seems to be the only one that discussed Penn State as a possible MSG opponent:

Cornell vs. Penn State, MSG, Saturday, November 29, 2014

Tickets go on sale next Monday, 2/24