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Just now, MafiaMan said:

So we’re in agreement then that it’s primarily UND fans whining and no one else?

I would agree with that. It might be getting echoed wider now because of the reach of UND fans are largest mass in number as well as CHN, GFH, etc posting about the issue with having the largest traveling fanbase that could fill that rink by itself.

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7 minutes ago, Wildfan said:

I would agree with that. It might be getting echoed wider now because of the reach of UND fans are largest mass in number as well as CHN, GFH, etc posting about the issue with having the largest traveling fanbase that could fill that rink by itself.

The rink location was decided 3 or 4 years ago.  Perhaps bracket integrity should have gone out the window so that UND could play in front of 2,500 fans in a 15,000 seat arena out east?  But then we’d be whining about being sent out east.  It’s a conundrum.  

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2 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:

The rink location was decided 3 or 4 years ago.  Perhaps bracket integrity should have gone out the window so that UND could play in front of 2,500 fans in a 15,000 seat arena out east?  But then we’d be whining about being sent out east.  It’s a conundrum.  

I think the being sent out east argument would really only be valid if we were the #1 seed. UND also declined to be the bidding host school with the Sioux Falls Sports Authority after the last regional they hosted together and decided to focus on their Fargo bids.

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Ice hasn’t seemed great for DU game and now I switch it to BU game and it looks really bad!  Another reason to have regionals in campus rinks that have had ice in all season and have pros taking care of it. 

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Just now, Wildfan said:

I think the being sent out east argument would really only be valid if we were the #1 seed. 

This is the same fan base who had plenty of members grumbling that the Pairwise formula needed to be tweaked after UND was left watching last year’s tournament, remember?

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Just now, ChrisUND1 said:

Ice hasn’t seemed great for DU game and now I switch it to BU game and it looks really bad!  Another reason to have regionals in campus rinks that have had ice in all season and have pros taking care of it. 

The blues practice arena has to have good ice right 

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36 minutes ago, Wildfan said:

It is actually AIC home rink. I have not seen anything about AIC being a co-host though, so maybe thats the loophole, you can host at a different teams home venue? We also had the ghost host of Providence in Providence, by having Brown host but still always placed at the Dunkin Donut center, which is their basketball home arena. 

Ahh, makes sense. Their logo on the ice and boards next to UMASS was throwing me off.

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