Cornell v Yale, 11/3/23

[Swampy]

I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:
[list=1]

• Where are the best seats for visitors?
• The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
• Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

[arugula]

I'll be there too.  Don't know where the best seats are for visitors. I've sat all over that rink and there are Cornell fans everywhere.  Band is usually by the right corner nearest the main entrance so that's a loud area.

Can usually find street parking a short walk from the whale. Neighborhood is pretty quiet on the edge of campus. Feels safe. The garage is a fee and takes a bit of time to get out.

[arugula]

I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:
[list=1]

• Where are the best seats for visitors?
• The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
• Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

Only thing I would note is that the rink is an archetectural landmark if you're interested in such things.  Saarenein (sp?).  Nice little hall of fame downstairs.   The best pizza in the world imho in New Haven so worth the trip for that. I'm partial to sally's but Pepe is also great.  Some love Modern. Not me.

[Chris '03]

I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:
[list=1]

• Where are the best seats for visitors?
• The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
• Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

I think the whale SRO on the blue line is about as good a seat as there is in the ecac. Cornell fans will be basically everywhere. Band is committed to football and will not be present this weekend.

Easy to park for free and walk.

Insert mandatory new haven pizza reference here.

[RichH]

There's an old guy who always sits near Cornell fans and tries to shout "BLUUE!!" over "RED" during every single "Let's go RED" cheer with the intensity and fervor of an 8 year old.

I hate that old guy.

[Al DeFlorio]

We usually park on Hillhouse Avenue.  Block from rink.

[Trotsky]

Same same on parking and New Haven pizza.

For seating, Yale's so bad now it may be like the 90s when you could just walk around and plant yourself anywhere in the rink.

Beautiful rink with atrocious facilities.

The Yale crowd is divided evenly between (1) students, (2) 8-year olds, and (3) 80-year olds.  It's like a football game in terms of the number of sheer fossils, and they are all ill-natured and aghast that there are fans of the visiting team.  Apparently this didn't happen during the good old days of redlining.

[Swampy]

Same same on parking and New Haven pizza.

For seating, Yale's so bad now it may be like the 90s when you could just walk around and plant yourself anywhere in the rink.

Beautiful rink with atrocious facilities.

The Yale crowd is divided evenly between (1) students, (2) 8-year olds, and (3) 80-year olds.  It's like a football game in terms of the number of sheer fossils, and they are all ill-natured and aghast that there are fans of the visiting team.  Apparently this didn't happen during the good old days of redlining.

FWIW, Yale's ticket website is saying "[ticket] Availability Limited." Looking at seats and at center ice behind the Visitor's bench, it seems most seats are taken.

[billhoward]

Cornell-at-Yale tickets are available, Yale says "limited," but there is standing room. Availability is certainly better than in the years around the national championship year (2013). You can find parking on-street, it'll be a 5- or 10-minute walk. The paid-parking garage is quite near, easy-in, but a wait to get out post-game. The New Haven deal for many includes dinner at one of the Wooster Street pizza/Italian restaurants. Take your pick, Modern, Sally's, Pepe's.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell-at-Yale tickets are available, Yale says "limited," but there is standing room. Availability is certainly better than in the years around the national championship year (2013). You can find parking on-street, it'll be a 5- or 10-minute walk. The paid-parking garage is quite near, easy-in, but a wait to get out post-game. The New Haven deal for many includes dinner at one of the Wooster Street pizza/Italian restaurants. Take your pick, Modern, Sally's, Pepe's.

Don't look for Modern on Wooster Street.

[Iceberg]

I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:
[list=1]

• Where are the best seats for visitors?
• The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
• Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

Back in February, I had a ticket for a seat in aisle 3, but I sometimes stood up in that general area. As another poster mentioned, the Cornell band is usually in that vicinity, and it offers a very good view of the play. There happened to be some Yale fans because it was the senior night, and I expect with it being the regular season home opener that there also be a decent number of people affiliated with Yale who attend the game.

Street parking should be available within 1-2 blocks of the rink and there are meters which accept payment. Don't try to park near a nonfunctional meter, because those clowns in the New Haven government will still ticket you. Even if a meter is busted, they still expect you to pay via whatever app the city uses.

Ingalls is a great place to watch a game and if I didn't live so far away, I'd probably go there every season like I do with Baker rink. Along with Harvard and Princeton, it's probably one of the most well-attended road games as far as Cornell supporters is concerned and I think whichever place is #4 doesn't even come close (not counting MSG since that's a neutral site and not a college rink). Maybe RPI is #4? Someone who has actually been to all the other in-league road sites should comment. I know Brown and Dartmouth don't get a lot of people, but I haven't been to Q, Union, Colgate, or the North Country.

[dbilmes]

I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:
[list=1]

• Where are the best seats for visitors?
• The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
• Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

Street parking in the neighborhood around the hockey rink used to be free at night, but is no longer. You will have to feed a meter.

[Dunc]

I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:
[list=1]

• Where are the best seats for visitors?
• The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
• Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

Only thing I would note is that the rink is an archetectural landmark if you're interested in such things.  Saarenein (sp?).  Nice little hall of fame downstairs.   The best pizza in the world imho in New Haven so worth the trip for that. I'm partial to sally's but Pepe is also great.  Some love Modern. Not me.

I'm from the area and imo it goes: Modern, Pepes, then Sallys but they are all great

Also heard great things about BAR but haven't been

[617BigRed]

Will also be coming down for the game from Boston tonight, would be cool to meet up with Red fans anywhere before or after if people have plans LGR!

[Trotsky]

There is a Cornell Hockey reddit site r/LynahFaithful if you want to use it to coordinate seating (shameless plug, I am co-mod).