Random observation about hockey arenas.
So...I intern with a certain cable company in their production department and we get to do all kinds of cool local college games from basketball, football, baseball, softball and hockey. I was pulling some footage for a feature we're running during an upcoming CCHA game when, for the first time ever, I saw the Notre Dame home hockey arena. I was stunned.
I have been to Munn for a game, I have seen games at the Joe, the local inline rink, Yost, the Southgate Civic Center, my back yard but never in my life have I witnessed such a horrid horrid display of arenaness.
Notre Dame has a good hockey program, Notre Dame gets a metric shit ton of donations from alums...and they play in this like....room with a curtain they pull back and have more shit going on the other side. It looks like a god damn mall. Its horrifying. I feel so bad for them.
I don't exactly like teh MSU but at least Munn is quality and feels very homey.
Notre Dame plays in the stock room of the South Bend JC Penny, can someone explain this to me?
I have heard they are building a new facility...but wtf man. wtf.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:21 PM ^
Know the old saw about people getting the goverment they deserve?
Same concept. Piss on 'em.
December 6th, 2008 at 3:07 AM ^
Yeah, I've gone to a couple games there the last couple years. As arenas go, it's ... not. That particular building (right next to the stadium) is built around two large circular spaces; one is the basketball arena (which is a normal basketball arena), and the other is a very multi-purpose room with a sheet of ice laid down in half of it. There are permanent stands built into the wall where the ice runs along the wall, but the rest of the stands aren't permanent. There's a curtain to separate it from the rest of the room, but it doesn't succeed one bit in making it feel like an actual hockey arena, probably because it isn't a hockey arena; it's a sheet of ice laid down in a multi-purpose room. The local ice arenas I visit in the course of my work have more of a hockey feel than that bizarre layout ever could.
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