cberkas
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Canada U18 goalies all under 6'
Canada U17 goalies all but one over 6'1"
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32 minutes ago, mikejm said:
The Greeley rink is suddenly facing some pretty passionate objections, so not a done deal. And CSU is in Fort Collins, not Loveland.
I know CSU is in Fort Collins, the arena in Loveland is 21 minutes away from the school.
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1 hour ago, farce poobah said:
For any universities on the fence, the next couple years will be ideal - a once in a blue moon type situation re talent.
The influx of talent from CHL is/will displace both current players with D-1 experience and future commits from other pipelines like especially USHL .
A chance to get competitive quickly.
The ACHA might benefit the most with player not wanting to go NCAA D3.
I was watching the Steve Dangle Podcast (they were talking about McKenna) and they were talking about it would be cool if there was a Canadian division in the NCAA.
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9 minutes ago, nodak651 said:
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.
He finally got his tax credit from Reno, I think he has a year or two before the TCC lease is up.
There are the Reno and Greeley arenas in the planning stage. Northern Colorado in Greeley and Colorado State in Loveland would be a good rivalry if they both did it, we can all dream.
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Thought there was one in Fort Worth, now I know
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Another Chorney you say
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1 minute ago, nodak651 said:
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.
Idk if they played in Lee's Family Forum but I'm very sure they didn't play at the America First Center (Silver Knights practice facility).
I posted it on here, I want to say the head coach was talking about the arena partnership with the Golden Knights, might have been America First Center when it was being built.
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1 hour ago, nascar99 said:
Feel like they're one big donation from the Golden Knights, KEM, or another donor away from going D1. Not sure what KEM's relationship is with UNLV now, I know the Engelstad Foundation had stopped funding UNLV in the recent past.
Sounds like UNLV is wanting to play in a bigger arena than City National Arena for their first game this year.
UNLV and Tennessee State were supposed to play each other
I'm always hearing about the Golden Knights building or planning to build a new arena in Vegas. There was the talk between the team and the Golden Knights about an arena closer to UNLV that UNLV would use but was going to cost the team too much.
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6 minutes ago, nodak651 said:
Illinois State would kill it and they would eventually be a great fit for the NCHC imo.
I'd like to see them move up.
I've been making a list of schools and nearby arenas when I'm bored. For example, the Dallas area schools have two arena options in Allen and Frisco TX.
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5 minutes ago, nodak651 said:
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.
Maryville had their feasibility study done in 2018, the school he was talking about is in the process of doing one.
Illinois State is another that is an area that needs a team and fits what he was talking about when it comes to D1 schools (with football).
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UNLV vs Denver Oct 4th
CC vs Simon Fraser Jan 17th
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10 minutes ago, brianvf said:
McKenna is gonna be feasting on some cupcakes.
I would love for them to lose a few of them. Including ASU to start the season to help out other NCHC teams.If the cupcakes bite back, the B1G isn't going to be easy for them
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31 minutes ago, nascar99 said:
Guesses for the "would have never thought of this school".
1. Old school SEC country, could be a bigger university from the SEC or a small university outside of the Power 4/5.
2. Any school in Texas.
3. Utah/BYU/Utah State or even just a random university in the Mountain West portion of the country.
4. West Virginia
Would be perfect for CHI to work with UND about having two Texas ACHA schools (Texas and Texas A&M) play before the UND/Michigan State game and get a discounted ticket to the UND/Michigan State. CHI could be using UND and their destination games to expand the game.
The school he never would have thought of would have been one I've thought of lol. Thinking of 4 regions that it could be, Florida, Texas, PNW (Portland), and Utah.
I do wonder about the new arena for Oklahoma that is going to be built. Oklahoma would raise an eyebrow, not because of it being in Oklahoma, Central Oklahoma has been very good at the AHCA level. But Oklahoma's ACHA team has never been that good.
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3 minutes ago, nascar99 said:
Link to interview on video or podcast?
College Hockey Coast 2 Coast Se 3 Ep 2 July 14, 2025 | ITHSWpodcasts
The expansion talk, I put the bullet points in that thread
It's toward the end of the interview (35 minutes in the podcast)
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Just now, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:
My guess for CA outside of the usual suspects in the Big Ten is UCSB. Rink near campus, insane amounts of money floating around Santa Barbara, and no football team destroying the athletic department's budget.
Mine would be San Jose State, they already play at the Sharks/Barracuda facility.
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Listen to an interview of Sean Hogan, Director of CHI. A question about a network like ESPN to carry a game of the week. CHI is working to partner with ESPN or NHL Network to grow TV media rights for college hockey, but each conference has their own TV media rights deal. Hogan said talks are taking place to get everyone on the same page about TV media rights or that is what I got from it.
Interesting that Mike Snee has been working for a about a decade to get the NCAA legislation and work with the schools to get a team in the Spangler Cup. He said the coaching staff should be announced in the next few weeks.
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Listened to an interview of Sean Hogan
- He said there are 3 feasibility studies scheduled this with two site visits completed.
- Sees more teams in the future not less
- it's important for CHI needs to get the message out to more ADs that there is a free feasibility study provided by the NHL/CHI if they want to add hockey
- The niche spot in adding hockey is D1 school without a big football program (i.e. not the Power4/5).
- Big schools are interested/donors are interested on the East and West to add hockey at schools
- A school in California is possible in the next "10 years" sounded like he was trying to not spill the beans on something
- One school that CHI is working with was a surprise "would have never thought of this school". If this would come to fruition it would help grow college hockey where they need to grow hockey, very exciting.
They have kept these NHL/CHI feasibility studies super secret squirrel so hard to find who did one without it being reported. There was originally 5 done round 2018 with only Illinois and Oakland being confirmed with 3 not announced. Sounds like 2 of the three were Lindenwood and Mayville. Looks like 11 studies have been done plus the current 3. in the works.
- Illinois
- Oakland (MI)
- Lindenwood (men's)
- Maryville (MO)
- Northern Michigan (woman's)
- Tennessee State
- Delaware (woman's)
- Michigan (woman's)
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14 minutes ago, brianvf said:
Penn State announced their NC schedule. Aside from ASU, looks like they lined up the cupcakes, as usual!
The only reason they are playing Arizona State is because they owed them a trip.
Revenge of the Cupcakes this season
Edit: The comments and repost are gold
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Surprised the ACHA allows this with how much the CHF/CHS/NACHL wanted to leave a couple years ago.
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On 7/10/2025 at 7:39 AM, nodak651 said:
Doe anyone else think it looks like a sheet of ice would fit perfectly into Utah Valley's arena?
Looking into the UCCU Center. They did have indoor/arena football for two years 1998 and 2009. looks like you'd lose all but the two top rows on the ends. Hard to find picture of the indoor football set up (there was only 4 I could find from 2009) you lose seating on the lower area, looks like there was only 7 rows before the upper area (folded in the above picture).
As stated by @atxsioux UVU would have to put in an ice plant and redo the floor. If they wanted more end seating, only the North end could expand out South end has the basketball practice facility. Would have to add two or three locker rooms for hockey specific to go with the 6 current ones. From what I can find there are 2 upper basketball courts on each side behind the folded seating in the picture.
Realistically they'd be better off working with BYU and playing at Peaks Arena (current arena) and adding back the 6,000 temporary seats that were removed. UVU could build an arena for hockey, they do have some room but Peaks Arena it the best option. UVU, Utah State, Utah, Weber State and BYU at Mavrick Center (Delta Center after renovations) would be a fun showcase for college hockey.
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31 minutes ago, tnt said:
Hopefully Penn State has the same success as Pegula’s Buffalo Sabres have. Would love to see them stumble out of the gate and not be able to recover. Hopefully the squad is as overconfident as the fans.
Hopefully the NCHC has a better head to head record against the Big Ten this year, with us heading the way against Minnesota, and Arizona State taking out Penn State.I plan to be at the ASU/Penn State games.
Last year they should have taken one if not both from Michigan.
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1 hour ago, brianvf said:
Dang. I would think there's got to be quite a few UMN fans that are a bit concerned about Bob's recent recruiting misses & strategy.
They have like 100 alumni coaches that are in his ear pulling the strings
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