Opponents and Others 2023-24

[ugarte]

Firewagon hockey in Hockey East with UNH leading #2 BU 6-4 in the third.

[Swampy]

Firewagon hockey in Hockey East with UNH leading #2 BU 6-4 in the third.

FWIW, that's also the final.

[ugarte]

Lindenwood with a tie at tOSU

Last night St. Thomas took Minnesota to OT and tonight it's 2-0 GGs with the clock winding down.

[Beeeej]

Man, I love the Pairwise during the first couple of weeks of the season before the math really starts mathing.

[Trotsky]

Holy Cross is currently #1.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Holy Cross is currently #1.

Will miracles never cease?

[Trotsky]

Holy Cross is currently #1.

Will miracles never cease?

That's what Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub thought.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Holy Cross is currently #1.

Will miracles never cease?

That's what Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub thought.

Ah, the Ivy League and its esoteric humor.  =]

[billhoward]

Holy Cross is currently #1.

Will miracles never cease?

Nah, Bob Cousy's grandson laced up his skates for the Cross.

[Rambling aside: A fellow reporter with zero sports knowledge was assigned to write on the Springfield Mass. tip-off (basketball) classic back when this game mattered a lot (it allowed the participants N+1 games in their seasons). she interviewed honorary chair Bob Cousy, and at the end of the interview asked, "Mister Couseny [headslap 1], would you remind me of your relationship to basketball [headslaps 2-5]." Geezus Gawd. For the rest of the tournament, the sports desk was assigned to do the news-side stories. Just to avoid further embarrassment.

[marty]

Dreams of a return to D3 sunk in the harbor like the Flying Dutchmen.

[billhoward]

Dreams of a return to D3 sunk in the harbor like the Flying Dutchmen.

Be about 3/4 mile away from Union's current Messa Rink. Be about the same size (seating); Messa is now 2225 seats. They can't play someplace else for two summers and the year in between, then return to Messa? Or does Union want to replace an athletic facility with an academic building, as Cornell is doing? Messa is as old as Lynah was circa 1980, that is a bit more than two decades.

Take the seating numbers with a grain of salt. The story says the new facility would have 3600 seats; it also says in the caption the rink would be 3600 square feet (factcheck: a 200x85 surface is 17,000 square feet). And it further says seating for  hockey would be about 2200. There's a casino next door, a boat yard, and two hotels. It sounds as if the town likes the idea of a spiffed up waterfront. There may be some state-federal-local development funds.

There's a note that the site used to be a GE locomotive factory and that there would need to be a site environmental review. I'm not an environmental engineer but I know long-ago vehicle factories have some soil quality issues. I worked one summer at Morse Chain on South Hill (Borg Warner), they've been gone for 40 years, the site was finally closed as a business in 2011 and site remediation I don't believe has full approval quite. So, lotsa luck, Union.  

Map has new rink location upper left along the river, existing Messa rink is lower right.

[abmarks]

Dreams of a return to D3 sunk in the harbor like the Flying Dutchmen.

Be about 3/4 mile away from Union's current Messa Rink. Be about the same size (seating); Messa is now 2225 seats. They can't play someplace else for two summers and the year in between, then return to Messa? Or does Union want to replace an athletic facility with an academic building, as Cornell is doing? Messa is as old as Lynah was circa 1980, that is a bit more than two decades.

Administration saying it's cheaper: "...because expenses are shared with other parties, it is also the most cost-effective option."

Take the seating numbers with a grain of salt. The story says the new facility would have 3600 seats; it also says in the caption the rink would be 3600 square feet (factcheck: a 200x85 surface is 17,000 square feet). And it further says seating for  hockey would be about 2200. There's a casino next door, a boat yard, and two hotels. It sounds as if the town likes the idea of a spiffed up waterfront. There may be some state-federal-local development funds.

Not enough copy editors/editors anymore

SHitty caption- it was clearly referring to 3600 seats given all the other info in the article.   Plus, the article's Header and sub-header don't really go together.  Both are accurate, but misleading together.  

3600 seat arena for concerts.
2200 seat hockey rink.

There's a note that the site used to be a GE locomotive factory and that there would need to be a site environmental review. I'm not an environmental engineer but I know long-ago vehicle factories have some soil quality issues. I worked one summer at Morse Chain on South Hill (Borg Warner), they've been gone for 40 years, the site was finally closed as a business in 2011 and site remediation I don't believe has full approval quite. So, lotsa luck, Union.  

If GE was there before, there'll be a toxic stew left behind for sure. good luck indeed (or good luck getting the remediation paid for)

[Trotsky]

There's a note that the site used to be a GE locomotive factory and that there would need to be a site environmental review. I'm not an environmental engineer but I know long-ago vehicle factories have some soil quality issues. I worked one summer at Morse Chain on South Hill (Borg Warner), they've been gone for 40 years, the site was finally closed as a business in 2011 and site remediation I don't believe has full approval quite. So, lotsa luck, Union.

Mandatory:

[marty]

Map has new rink location upper left along the river, existing Messa rink is lower right.

I give you credit Bill for posting the map.  My "fell out of bed on my head" meter told me this is a fucked up location for the rink of a small school like Union,  I didn't bother to look for the proof of my concussion conclusion,  Thanks for doing this.  I think the school will be running shuttles to the game.  I can't imagine this is going  to promote good student attendance.  As much as I have no use for the Cornell Band stifling dorks at Messa Rink this seems to be an even more silly move than tamping down fun and rivalry.  Free pizza if you show up won't counteract the inconvenient location.  Maybe they'll offer a few chips for the Craps table or a full pulls pushes of the One Armed Bandit with each "adult" ticket.

[Trotsky]

Isn't the "Vampire Squid of the Week" Q facility well off campus, too?

Maybe this is the future.  They'll put Lynah 2 at Cass Park.