Comments on: Best WCHA Rinks

By: alaskahockeygirl

alaskahockeygirl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:45:23 +0000

Dammitall, we miss you!

By: jtbourne

jtbourne — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:44:24 +0000

I gotta confess – the Captain Morgan pose after a Saturday night goal (as in, before a party) was a hijacked celebration. I saw Barrett Heisten do it at an Aces game and 100% ripped it off. I loved it that much.

By: Donald Dunlop

Donald Dunlop — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:25:02 +0000

Justin,
I was always partial to the “I got a little Captain in Me” move after you scored. I guess I missed seeing you do the fake stick signing because I was busy eating my heart attack meds.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:42:24 +0000

i live in new england, and have only been to hockey east arenas. Mullins @ Umass-Amherst is def pretty rowdy, but I’d have to say the most fun and boisterous crowd was watching Northeastern’s Dog House @ Matthews Arena. Aside from the fact that the fans are literally on top of the sheet, the acoustics really amplify every sound. If i was a visiting opponent, it’d def be intimidating. I’d def like to visit the wcha arenas as well…

By: Anna S.

Anna S. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:40:42 +0000

I’m really partial to Lynah at Cornell since that’s where I went to school, and I can testify that the crowds there are vicious to visitors, but it’s a lot smaller than the 15k seat rinks in the midwest. Not sure how that would affect the overall noise in the building, since I’ve never been to a game in Wisconsin or Minnesota. Tickets were hard to come by, though (students would camp out on Wednesday to be at the front of the line for season tickets distributed on Saturday), and if you didn’t have season tickets it was pretty much body parts for the big games (Good luck finding tix to the Harvard game if you didn’t have season tickets, those things were rarer than unicorns).

By: jtbourne

jtbourne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:24:18 +0000

No argument on that here.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:22:26 +0000

Regardless though it feels small, and I dare say it goes without saying that the face of college hockey in Minnesota could easily do with more seating. I love that the place is packed every game, I just think they could pack the place every game with another 1000 seats in the place.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:19:12 +0000

bah! well damn me for believing the first number that showed, saw 9700 for Mariucci and 15,237 for the Kohl.

By: jtbourne

jtbourne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:12:16 +0000

Marc – I can edit that comment if you want: I assume you know (and meant) that the Kohl Center holds 15,550 (and actually, i just googled – 15,237). Mariucci seats 10,000 – not too shabby for a college game.

By: AiH

AiH — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:10:46 +0000

Wow – I guess St Cloud State has really let themselves go since I was there. That’s disappointing to hear.