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by WCHBlog on Mar 16, 2010 12:27 PM PDT
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PrintPaul Kelly of College Hockey Inc. seems to have already made an impact north of the border, and the CHL plans to complain about it this summer. It's an interesting tact taken by the CHL. Last year, for the first time ever, USA Hockey got a bunch of money from the NHL for player development purposes--money that the NCAA, for some dumb reason, turned down--and now the CHL is arguing that money should be taken away because part of it is helping fund Kelly, who keeps saying mean things about the CHL. I'm sure other topics presented at that summit will include Windsor and Kitchener finally rolling out that big defamation lawsuit against Jeff Jackson like they promised they would, David Branch's fairness czar announcing the OHL Draft is as clean as a whistle, and announcing a 50-game suspension for a player you've never heard of, and a 2 game suspension for a player you have heard of.
This didn't get as much attention in the college hockey world this time around since all the high-profile projects have already been funded, but Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty vetoed a bunch of stuff out of the Minnesota state bonding bill that included renovations to the Mankato Civic Center and All Seasons Arena, which are the city's two indoor ice arenas. The plan for renovations came after a plan to build a new ice arena, which would have taken some burden off the aging All Seasons Arena was vetoed by the governor in the bonding bill last year.
It's particularly frustrating to see given that the state had resources to build a state-of-the-art arena for Bemidji State, a state-of-the-art arena for Minnesota-Duluth, an incredibly unnecessary state-of-the-art gift shop for St. Cloud State--if you're charging $25, $30, even $40 for a ticket that the WCHA prices at $12, I think you can buy your own glass doors-- and a new arena for Minnesota-Crookston, which doesn't even have a team anymore. Minnesota State's facilities meanwhile remain the only ones among Minnesota schools in D-I to not receive any sort of funding from the state of Minnesota.
USA Hockey announced the names of the players that will try out for the NTDP. It's a very Chicago-heavy camp this year.
ISS released their March Draft Rankings. I count ten current or future college players on the list, with Derek Forbort again leading the way.
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ISS released their March Draft Rankings
… and Brock Nelson isn’t a top 50 recruit according to rivals.com????
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SCSU got 6 million to renovate their front lobby(which will cost at a min of 30 million). Who ever was the master mind behind the original design should be fired because to have a couple thousand fans standing in 5 by 40 entrance isn’t fun… The national hockey center is in need of a makeover…
Where’s this gift shop that you write about????
Duluth, Bemidji, and St Cloud’s arenas are all older than the Mankato Civic Center. Bemidji and Duluth’s are being built right now, St Cloud starts renovations next year. It’s called waiting your turn. The governor didn’t cut renovation funds for Mankato for eternity. It will happen. This isn’t a big deal.
Speaking of Crookston, you also forgot to mention that the Corps of Engineers were going to build a huge dyke through their existing rink in town (used by HS and youth hockey in addition to now club UMC hockey since the D-II team folded), so they would have been up a creek without a paddle if they hadn’t gotten funding. In other words, Crookston would have had to travel to either Thief River Falls, Red Lake Falls, Hallock or East Grand Forks to play HS or youth hockey. So, nice try there…
Hubbs!
And, I’m with ciskie. Cry me a river on “second time” through.
Bemidji had wanted a new rink since the mid-’90’s, and had been requestiong state bonding since the early 2000’s. In fact, track back the history, and the current BREC under construction can be traced back to a plan that was a “renovation” of their current rink that was planned in 2000. That went no-where, and they tried again for bonding in 2002 and 2004. Finally, in 2006, the state came back and told BSU that they would have a better chance of getting funding if they partenered with the city of Bemidji. In 2006, the city with BSU as a partner got $3 million for planning, and got the final $20 million (and approval to increase the sales tax for the remaining funds) to build the BREC.
So, Mankato has waited two years? Bemidji waited six just for bonding, not to mention that they had discussed an event center for years before they even got to the pont of asking the state for money. Come on now, have some patience!
Hubbs!
