nodak651

If North Carolina and North Carolina State ever get programs off the ground, Wake Forest would make for a nice regional addition/rivalry. Especially at a small school like Wake Forest, hockey could help the school attract students from northern states. The hockey arena at the local fairgrounds is suitable, and it's directly adjacent to their other sports arenas/statdiums. That would probably give reason for Liberty to make the jump as well.

Missed (hockey) opportunity for Louisville. This could have been an amazing college hockey arena. Seems like the new project will be good for the city, but Louisville hockey there would be electric.

Why say stuff like that? Literally a zero percent chance of that happening.

They didnt opt in, however.

Maybe the influx of people at the air base?

Great! Looks like you're prob correct based on the size of the parking spaces.

Anyone know what "Forks Freightliner" is? Looks like a farly large building. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/83f7c1d340f843809bbff15fc6d722f3#data_s=id%3AdataSource_5-17af413d6ea-layer-4%3A318

That just isn't correct. I think a lot of people are confused about this. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here. When a company invests in vacant land, the property value and tax assessment typically increase. To encourage investment, companies may receive a tax incentive, exempting them from paying a percentage of the increased tax assessment. However, they must still pay the pre-development tax rate. The city does not provide cash payments to the developer, and the tax revenue from the developed property does not decrease.

Please elaborate.

Where is the money coming from?

You sure complain and have brought a lot of negativity lately. I'm sure you either know where it was hosted or are capable of figuring it out. I'm happy that they hosted an in-person media day this year.

They also practiced off campus though right? Building a practice arena on campus and playing games off campus would be viable I'd think. Especially in areas without much hockey, like at BGSU, where the practice arena could also be used as a community rink to generate revenue. Would be simlar to UND and NDSU for football.

Would love to see your list at some point. I can probably help with some you could be missing. Really bugs me that hockey and Nevada is never mentioned, whatsoever, in the discussions about the new arena they are building there.

The Sharks have one pretty well known super fan who could be interested in helping to fund the team...

UT Dallas could be an ideal candidate to add hockey. They don't have football and are in the process of transitioning to D2, and they have an arena project or two on their master plan.

oops! My mistake. I was thinking of the Silver Knights - it was Lee's Family Forum. They played Alaska Anchorage there actually.

They've played at the new arena in Henderson in the past. There are a lot of arenas in vegas already... suprising to me that the Golden Knights would even think about that.

Illinois State would kill it and they would eventually be a great fit for the NCHC imo.

I feel like Arizona is in a simlar boat. Apparantly Sean Engelstad went there, and Sean Hogan (College Hockey Inc Director) coached there and he said he bugs them about it every year. Plus they have the new arena coming on board, and the Roadrunners are likely headed to Reno, plus they have the ASU rivalry and can see ASU's success. Of course.... football, basketball, and money will continue to be an issue. As for a suprise school, Roosevelt and Austin Peay are my guesses. Perhaps UMKC if they include hockey in the arena they are building, but I doubt it. All they have to do is look up the road though and see how UNO created a niche for themselves in a similarily competetive market. He could have also been thinking of Maryville as a suprise school. IPFW and IUPUI both also have nearby arenas that would work well and both schools would be great for college hockey geographically, but I doubt those schools have the gumption.

100% agree. They arent good enough.

Pipe dream of mine is to shrink the olympic ice sheet to nhl size, which I think would create 15 ft of space savings (100 -> 85ft ice width?). Perhaps if they shrunk the ice sheet, they could create a concourse area behind the permanent east side seating, and along with a new 2nd north side entrence, it could somehow be tied in to new permanent seating on the northern end (which could include a new club/sports bar area). This would make it so people don't have to walk around or IN FRONT of the seating behind either basket - seating could be much closer, and with the new practice courts, portable seating wouldnt have to be moved so frequently (if even needed). Shrinking the ice sheet could also allow for the player areas to be exanded within the current footrint. Also, given that all of the college hockey programs will soon be at or near NHL dimensions, the olympic sheet has become obsolete. If it were an nhl sheet, the hockey team could practice there if needed, and this new flexibility would make it more viable to play some basketball games at the ralph again. This could potentially help to significantly increase basketball revenue which would enable the school to attract occasional buy games vs bigger branded opponents. Beimg able to play a team like Alabama at the big ralph would have generated a ton more money from clubs, suits, concessions, video board ads, etc.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/24QZZMVKPeXNM4bo7P6mjW?si=0J0LqF_QT0uQUbBugEF60Q Sam Herder interviewed our Head Coach.

Doe anyone else think it looks like a sheet of ice would fit perfectly into Utah Valley's arena?

Pretty sure those purchases go towards UND's spending requirements, and UND gets incentives based on UND's total game one spend.