2022-23 Men's Schedule

[dfbeech]

According to April 25th 2022 article in Grand Forks Herald, "UND was originally supposed to travel to Cornell the weekend of Jan. 6-7 2023, but the Big Red have a scheduling conflict with a league game. UND and Cornell will work to find a future date for that series in Ithaca, N.Y."

[jkahn]

Per the UCONN athletics blog, we may be playing UCONN at MSG this year.
https://www.theuconnblog.com/2022/4/28/23046445/uconn-huskies-hockeys-2022-23-non-conference-opponents-nearly-set

[Trotsky]

Per the UCONN athletics blog, we may be playing UCONN at MSG this year.
https://www.theuconnblog.com/2022/4/28/23046445/uconn-huskies-hockeys-2022-23-non-conference-opponents-nearly-set

Boring but makes sense.

[dbilmes]

Per the UCONN athletics blog, we may be playing UCONN at MSG this year.
https://www.theuconnblog.com/2022/4/28/23046445/uconn-huskies-hockeys-2022-23-non-conference-opponents-nearly-set

Boring but makes sense.

UConn program is a program on the rise. Its new arena is scheduled to open in time for the upcoming season. There are a lot of UConn alums in NY, and of course it's not hard to get from Connecticut to New York City! The Huskies should bring in more fans than some of the other teams we've played at MSG.

[Trotsky]

Per the UCONN athletics blog, we may be playing UCONN at MSG this year.
https://www.theuconnblog.com/2022/4/28/23046445/uconn-huskies-hockeys-2022-23-non-conference-opponents-nearly-set

Boring but makes sense.

UConn program is a program on the rise. Its new arena is scheduled to open in time for the upcoming season. There are a lot of UConn alums in NY, and of course it's not hard to get from Connecticut to New York City! The Huskies should bring in more fans than some of the other teams we've played at MSG.

They say "not sold in Storrs" for a reason.

UConn is awful (I mean spiritually and aesthetically, not hockeywise) but inevitable and they can help keep attendance up and MSG a thing, so it's worth it.  I expect LIU will eventually join the rotation.  You need schools where L.I. kids who didn't get into Cornell wind up (insert BU joke here).

[CU2007]

Per the UCONN athletics blog, we may be playing UCONN at MSG this year.
https://www.theuconnblog.com/2022/4/28/23046445/uconn-huskies-hockeys-2022-23-non-conference-opponents-nearly-set

Boring but makes sense.

UConn program is a program on the rise. Its new arena is scheduled to open in time for the upcoming season. There are a lot of UConn alums in NY, and of course it's not hard to get from Connecticut to New York City! The Huskies should bring in more fans than some of the other teams we've played at MSG.

Agreed. Big school and at least it's out of conference. Could be a lot worse

[Tcl123]

Per the UCONN athletics blog, we may be playing UCONN at MSG this year.
https://www.theuconnblog.com/2022/4/28/23046445/uconn-huskies-hockeys-2022-23-non-conference-opponents-nearly-set

Boring but makes sense.

UConn program is a program on the rise. Its new arena is scheduled to open in time for the upcoming season. There are a lot of UConn alums in NY, and of course it's not hard to get from Connecticut to New York City! The Huskies should bring in more fans than some of the other teams we've played at MSG.

Agreed. Big school and at least it's out of conference. Could be a lot worse

I'm on the boring side of the fence. You can't tell me the rest of the ncaa hockey country isn't aware of this game. We should be pulling in BC, ND, Michigan , Wisconsin, Denver, etc. every other year easily. I get BU every other year, but come on. We need a big OOC game here every time. I hate the rangers, but it's MSG, the "most famous arena in the world". We can do better. We should do better. Just my two cents.

[ugarte]

1) dinner with family in koreatown

2) walk over to the arena among a crowd of red

3) watch a game against [don't care much]

tbh it's not the playoffs. i'd rather take the Q back to brooklyn in the afterglow of a W than see the stars of Western hockey.  ymmv and i understand.

[BearLover]

Number one priority should be filling the stadium. The whole point is the atmosphere. UConn is a good choice from that perspective. Michigan has the Ohio State football game that day, so their fans are distracted. Wisconsin probably doesn't have that many alums in NYC? Maybe I'm wrong. Notre Dame would be a good pick, lots of alumni and I don't think they play a football game that day as they are not in a conference. I suspect Denver doesn't have enough local alumni. BC would be interesting, that could work I suppose.

I'm definitely fine with UConn, though. Hockey East program, big name, decent recent success, lots of alumni in the area.

[Weder]

That weekend Is often when Notre Dame plays USC in football.

[dbilmes]

UConn just signed its coach to a new contract and a big raise.

[French Rage]

That weekend Is often when Notre Dame plays USC in football.

Yup, they're @USC/@Stanford alternating years.  And a lot of other CFB programs save their rivalry games for that weekend too, so any school with a P5 CFB team might be distracted.  So BU and other HE powers might work.  With western schools, that eliminates all of ones large enough to have a major NYC presence (which is a wordy way of saying "Big 10 schools").

[ugarte]

Number one priority should be filling the stadium. The whole point is the atmosphere. UConn is a good choice from that perspective. Michigan has the Ohio State football game that day, so their fans are distracted. Wisconsin probably doesn't have that many alums in NYC? Maybe I'm wrong. Notre Dame would be a good pick, lots of alumni and I don't think they play a football game that day as they are not in a conference. I suspect Denver doesn't have enough local alumni. BC would be interesting, that could work I suppose.

I'm definitely fine with UConn, though. Hockey East program, big name, decent recent success, lots of alumni in the area.

Disagree about Wisconsin - they have a huge NY presence (Packers bars are *hopping* during football season). I agree overall with your point about packing the house. I wouldn't mind a good opponent but I like taking my kid to a game where we win.

[BearLover]

Disregard my comment about Notre Dame! Sounds like Hockey East is the way to go. BTW, UConn hasn't been a weak program recently. They've been average to above average.

[ursusminor]

Number one priority should be filling the stadium. The whole point is the atmosphere. UConn is a good choice from that perspective. Michigan has the Ohio State football game that day, so their fans are distracted. Wisconsin probably doesn't have that many alums in NYC? Maybe I'm wrong. Notre Dame would be a good pick, lots of alumni and I don't think they play a football game that day as they are not in a conference. I suspect Denver doesn't have enough local alumni. BC would be interesting, that could work I suppose.

I'm definitely fine with UConn, though. Hockey East program, big name, decent recent success, lots of alumni in the area.

Disagree about Wisconsin - they have a huge NY presence (Packers bars are *hopping* during football season). I agree overall with your point about packing the house. I wouldn't mind a good opponent but I like taking my kid to a game where we win.

If you want to see Cornell win, invite RPI. They have played each other once at the MSG, over the Holidays in 1969-70, a 9-0 Cornell win.