Best Places to Watch a College game

[Drew]

USCHO lists the best places in the country to see a college hockey game:

2. Boston
4. The North Country
6.  Ithaca
10. UVM

http://www.uscho.com/news/2005/02/08_009885.php

[ajec1]

Grand Forks=#1? I guess considering hockey is the only that goes on there YEAR-ROUND.  Thus it would be #1 on my personal list of most boring towns with college hockey (St. Cloud is second, barely beating Hamilton).

[Trotsky]

Wasn't St. Cloud where the residents of Lake Wobegone would go for fun?

[jkahn]

from the article
[Q]While the Cornell fans taught Michigan fans much of what they know during an early '90s NCAA playoff appearance, the Maize and Blue fans have since taken it to the next level.[/Q]

[billhoward]

a) This is a classic let's-get-more-eyeballs-to-the-site story. In People, it would be "Hollywood's Ten Best Abs."

b) Mostly the author is on target.

1. Grand Forks, ND. Lynah has charm, yada-yada, but who wouldn't trade Lynah straight up for an 11,000 seat pleasure palace? If Ken Dryden founded Peoplesoft instead of fooling around with the NHL, this would be our building.

2. "Boston, Massachusetts." C'mon, Tom, read your AP stylebook. Places like Boston and Philadelphia are big enough not to need the state name after the city.

3. Ann Arbor. Belongs in the Top Ten, but No. 3? The author couldn't have 5 of the top 6 be eastern, so perhaps Ann Arbor moved up.

4. The North Country. Two pretty-good places to watch a Friday-Saturday series appear to beat one great place and one okay place (Hamilton) upstate but not that far upstate. What do you do up there from Friday 9:10 pm when the first game is over until Saturday 6pm when you watch warmups for the second game? You have three choices:
a) drink
b) snowmobile
c) play hockey on the St. Lawrence and lord have mercy if you get a breakway

5. Madison. Maybe they're riding on past glory but Wisconsin fans are insanely loud, proud, and loyal. I don't think it's all due to the drug culture.

6. Ithaca. Should be Top Five. Specifically, it should have swapped places with No. 4. Note this is the highest ranked place that seats less than 5,000 (Clarkson + St. Lawrence = 5,000 combined).

7. Minneapolis
8. Orono
9. Denver/Colorado Springs
10. Burlington ... okay, fair enough.  

[KeithK]

[q]Lynah has charm, yada-yada, but who wouldn't trade Lynah straight up for an 11,000 seat pleasure palace? [/q]Me and I'd bet a large number of the other folks on this board.  I would absolutely hate it if Lynah were replaced by a "pleasure palace".  Which would is a better place to watch a game as a fan, a place where you're packed close to the ice in narrow rows that are steep or in a pleasure palace with lots of leg room, cup holders, lots of distance to the ice and somewhere where the ushers urge you to not cheer so loud because it's disturbing the other fans around you?  (That last is a reference to Denver where a particular USCHO poster [PuckSwami] was specifically asked to be quiet because his non-profane cheering was disturbing the other fans around him.)

I'm sure some people would love to have a wonderful huge modern arena with wide concourses, wonderful concessions and padded seats.  but if you think that sentiment is dominant among readers on this board you haven't been paying attention.

[atb9]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 [Q2]I'm sure some people would love to have a wonderful huge modern arena with wide concourses, wonderful concessions and padded seats.  but if you think that sentiment is dominant among readers on this board you haven't been paying attention.[/q]

Padded seats?  We're not talking padded seats, we're talking leather seats...If only they could "sweeten the deal" a little more, I'd be sold.  :-P

[Scott Kominkiewicz]

>What do you do up there from Friday 9:10 pm when the first game is over until Saturday 6pm when you watch warmups for the second game? You have three choices:
a) drink
b) snowmobile
c) play hockey on the St. Lawrence and lord have mercy if you get a breakway
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Uhh, A?

[billhoward]

[Q]Scott Kominkiewicz Wrote:

 >What do you do up there from Friday 9:10 pm when the first game is over until Saturday 6pm when you watch warmups for the second game? You have three choices:
a) drink
b) snowmobile
c) play hockey on the St. Lawrence and lord have mercy if you get a breakway
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Uhh, A?[/q]

The correct answer of course is a) plus your choice of b) or c). You may die of hypothermia but as with Cialis mixed with hypertensive males, you go with a smile on your face.

[RichS]

Plenty of choices guys but then since I bet none of you ever sought them out, you wouldn't know.  ::rolleyes::

[DisplacedCornellian]

[Q]RichS Wrote:

 Plenty of choices guys but then since I bet none of you ever sought them out, you wouldn't know.   [/q]

Hey Rich, if there are "plenty of choices" of things to do up there, why is it that you constantly troll this message board and respond almost instantaneously whenever anything less than glowing is said about the north country?  

[Tub(a)]

[Q]DisplacedCornellian Wrote:

 [Q2]RichS Wrote:

 Plenty of choices guys but then since I bet none of you ever sought them out, you wouldn't know.   [/Q]
Hey Rich, if there are "plenty of choices" of things to do up there, why is it that you constantly troll this message board and respond almost instantaneously whenever anything less than glowing is said about the north country?  [/q]

Also, why don't you list these myriad options for us? Surely you would like to share the unending pleasure of the North Country experience with fellow hockey fans?

[RichS]

First off, I do not "troll" this board...lol.

Secondly, why is it you seemingly lie in wait and "almost instantaneously" respond whenever I post?  :-D

[atb9]

[Q]RichS Wrote:
Secondly, why is it you seemingly lie in wait and "almost instantaneously" respond whenever I post?   [/q]

Exactly what I was thinking.  Face it, we're all nerds (of varying degree, of course), we all have quirky hobbies (a function of intelligence?), move on.

I'd much rather have Rich posting on eLynah than wandering the streets on his snowmobile trying to negotiate the turns with beer in one hand and hockey stick in the other.

[DisplacedCornellian]

[Q]RichS Wrote:
Secondly, why is it you seemingly lie in wait and "almost instantaneously" respond whenever I post?   [/q]

Heh... good point.  In my defense, this is a Cornell hockey message board...so my lurking is at least a little (even if just a smidge) less pathetic than yours ;-)