2020-23 College Hockey thread
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For anyone that hasn’t been paying close attention for the last year, Matthews Arena is officially on its last legs. Sounds like this will be its last season before meeting the wrecking ball. Great job by HuntNews and NU Hockey Blog covering this story so far.
https://twitter.com/nuhockeyblog/status/1795922757919604778
If you’ve never been to Matthews, you really should try to catch a hockey game there before it closes. Not only is it a great college hockey barn, but the history that building has seen is incredible and isn’t talked about enough.
https://huntnewsnu.com/78209/sports/where-it-all-began-a-look-back-at-matthews-arena-as-bruins-reach-centennial-season/
https://x.com/huntnewsnu/status/1788629875424723149?s=46&t=maKAX0PnmH697FOv1x7kUg
https://twitter.com/nuhockeyblog/status/1795922757919604778
If you’ve never been to Matthews, you really should try to catch a hockey game there before it closes. Not only is it a great college hockey barn, but the history that building has seen is incredible and isn’t talked about enough.
https://huntnewsnu.com/78209/sports/where-it-all-began-a-look-back-at-matthews-arena-as-bruins-reach-centennial-season/
And here’s a second article detailing the issues with the arena leading to the plan to tear it all down:
https://x.com/huntnewsnu/status/1788629875424723149?s=46&t=maKAX0PnmH697FOv1x7kUg
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Ouch, this one is hitting hard. Had season tickets there, 1st row balcony over the NU bench, for years. Absolute best view for hockey anywhere, practically over the glass. Get there if you can for a game, hockey or bball, there is nowhere else like it anymore and it's gonna be gone.
Now I'm gonna go mourn by pouring a nip in my diet coke while sitting next to the cat's litter box.
Went to Matthews this past season. One of my favorites in college hockey. I think it’s a good bet that with the lack of land with the current footprint that they will have to have balcony seating again. I wonder if they can make a modern type replica of Matthews with modern amenities.
I saw the state hockey final there in 1961 at age 9. Place was beyond filled up which is why a couple years later the tournament moved to the Garden (and it drew very well there for quite a while).
Whenever I saw a NU hoop game over the years, I always went back to that time. They did a nice job fixing up what was a real dump, sorry the structure won't stand up much longer.
Whenever I saw a NU hoop game over the years, I always went back to that time. They did a nice job fixing up what was a real dump, sorry the structure won't stand up much longer.
I'd take the atmosphere and some lack of comfort over some of the dead-ass building around hockey east (and sports in general). Everyone is always willing to trade emotion and soul for comfort, and that's not how sports should be IMO. Certainly at the college level.
I think this sucks horribly, the building should be a national historical landmark. If the people in charge of this have any soul (they won't), the new building would absolutely have the balcony and some other call backs but instead they're going to build Agganis Part Two and while everything will be nice and orderly and modern, the University, Hockey East, the hockey community, and the region will have had a significant death in the family.
I would take Matthews over Conte for sure, speaking of somewhere that needs a new arena, and over Tsongas, but not over Agganis, no way and not over Whittemore. Probably not over Lawler or Schneider or Toscano either.
You wouldn’t take Matthews over Lawler? Merrimack has done a solid job with it but it’s a glorified high school rink.
Parking is part of the equation. And since it's small, it's close to capacity almost always.
It shouldn't be though...it's about the game. But I know I'm an old(er) man yelling at clouds
Concur, Matthews is awesome. And a great sheet of ice, my favorite to skate on in Greater Boston by far.
I don't recall having trouble with parking for Matthews the times that I drove. There would usually be parking in the lot on the other side of the orange line, and there is a pedestrian bridge that makes it a very manageable walk.