Lynah

[nyiballs]

I am very hopeful that the club team will have its own locker room after all is said and done.  But doubtful.

[KeithK]

The current layout has locker room space for the men's and women's teams plus the visitor's locker rooms on the west end.  Moving the locker rooms opens up a lot of space at the west end of the building, but the new pressbox and facilities might end up using much of this.

Anyone know whether the women's locker rooms will also move to the new south end?

[gobigred24]

Would they dare put the opposing bench on the South Side??  That would be asking for trouble, I think.  who knows where fish would end up.  The townies are great fans, don't get me wrong, but you could have drunk students going into the visiting bench.  would be interesting, at any rate

[ben03]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 The current layout has locker room space for the men's and women's teams plus the visitor's locker rooms on the west end.  Moving the locker rooms opens up a lot of space at the west end of the building, but the new pressbox and facilities might end up using much of this.

Anyone know whether the women's locker rooms will also move to the new south end?[/q]
from what i understand the south side addition will accommodate both men's and women's locker rooms. the current visitor/men's/women's locker rooms on the west end will stay as they are but be used for visiting team(s) (possibly tournaments?).

[KeithK]

That's what I figured.  I still hate the idea of losing the wonderful visitors locker rooms *shakes head sadly*.

[ben03]

nothing saying we --have-- to give them one of the nicer ones :-}

[KeithK]

[Q]ben03 Wrote:

 nothing saying we --have-- to give them one of the nicer ones[/q]I can just see it now.  "Sorry Mr. Donato, you still have to use those rooms.  BWAHAHAHAHA"

[Lauren '06]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 [Q2]ben03 Wrote:

 nothing saying we --have-- to give them one of the nicer ones[/Q]
I can just see it now.  "Sorry Mr. Donato, you still have to use those rooms.  BWAHAHAHAHA"
[/q]
Clearly for Harvard they should put "closed for renovations" signs on all the other locker rooms and make them stand outside during intermissions.

[Rosey]

All in all, I think the renovations sound great: preserve most of the existing structure (including the low roof), increase capacity a modest amount, and give our guys better facilities.  Sounds win-win.  I don't care much about the benches being on opposite sides of the rink, FWIW, so that criticism does nothing for me.

Cheers,
Kyle

[billhoward]

"Luxury box" is in the eyes of the beholder. Padded leather chairs? Carpeted floor? Bathroom? Closed circuit TV? Bartender? Waitress service? Sliding windows if the noise gets too much? That's a luxury box.

Bet they're more boxes than luxury boxes.

[CowbellGuy]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

the penalty boxes end up on the side of the home bencj, giving the home team an advantage in getting the right personnel on the ice after a penalty expires.[/q]
As I understand it, this is precisely why Schafer wants it. I don't like it either, FWIW.

[Free11Skier]

Giving C back to the students is quite appealing.  As a first year resident in D, I was dissapointed by the level of enthusiasm at that end.  It's not bad, but it could be much better.  Five continuous sections of standing students will be more intimidating than the current setup and allow for more people to join in on individual cheers.

I'm all for it!

[mjh89]

[Q]Free11Skier Wrote:

 Giving C back to the students is quite appealing.  As a first year resident in D, I was dissapointed by the level of enthusiasm at that end.  It's not bad, but it could be much better.  Five continuous sections of standing students will be more intimidating than the current setup and allow for more people to join in on individual cheers.

I'm all for it![/q]

And maybe it will enable D and E to stay on beat with the rest of the arena during the cowbell, etc.

[DKmathteacher]

I'd say D, E, and F are far better in keeping with the beats compared to G.  I was so tempted to bring in BIG flippers or something to "conduct" the section myself.  

[Andy]

Giving C to the students is a good idea, it will be more cohesive that way, its always hard to tell what people at the other end are saying/cheering.  I also like opponent bench on the student side, because well, it won't make things any easier, especially during a timeout.

What we really need to expand in lynah are the rafters.  If I recall there's only room for one more banner, and we came out with 3 this year.