This is not always true at Union's Achilles Rink the benches are on the
same side of the ice but the vistitng team goes through a gate at the far
board to enter and exit the ice.  The same is true for Dartmouth's rink
as well as Maine's Alfond Arena.  The only place I have seen where the
teams enter and exit through the same door is at Cornell's Lynah Rink.
But even then the visiting team has to wait for Cornell to take the ice
before entering.  Princeton also has it where the benches are side by
side but the visitors enter and exit across the rink.
 
On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Dr Martin G. Keeney wrote:
 
>   GEWillaims raised the issue of bench-penalty box placement on
> INFO-Hockey-l.
>
>   One distinct advantage of benches on opposite sides of the ice (the
> alternative suggestion in the rule book) is that the players are separated
> from each other during entry and exit from the arena.  This is especially
> useful on exit when players  are occasionally slightly heated from the
> recent play.  I have seen a few occasions at Joe Louis Arena (which has
> the "preferred" arrangement) where post-game skirmishes have flourished.
> This has been further worsened when he "home" team has not been allowed
> to use the home ice gate and both teams have had to use the same
> "tunnel.  Of course there are arenas where both teams enter/exit
> through the same gate at the same end of the arena.
>
>   There is a further advantage to the alternative arrangement during
> the game (especially the second period) when teams must "cross" as
> they change of the fly - and other things have been known to fly is
> these situations also.
>
>   I used to worr about this also, but have decided that unobstructed
> access to the bench is more fair than the penalty release time
> disadvantage.  Not much a team can do about the rink layout, but they
> can avoid the visitor can avoid the penalty release problem by not
> going in the box in the first place.
>
> -glen-
>
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