>> J. Michael Jackson writes:
>> I don't know.  If one is going to have a hockey team, it might be nice to
>> have somewhere to play your home games.
 
And Todd Myrick writes:
 
>..how many D-1 programs
>own their own rinks on campus, and how many lease a city-owned rink or borrow
>another programs facility?
 
So, I'll write about the flip side:
 
Pennsylvania owns a gorgeous (if not outdated) rink but can't put any number
of colleges' programs in it.  We tried Penn, Villanova, Temple, . . . <sigh>.
 
Villanova rents ice from a township rink in the western 'burbs.  Temple's
program folded.
 
Drexel rents ice from Penn, but isn't D-1.
 
Are there other college rinks out there without a team to house?
 
When I played high school hockey in Omaha, we all played at the Ak-Sar-Ben
(municipal rink, basketball arena, thoroughbred track, etc.).  I don't know
how much the popularity of hockey has grown in the last 20+ years, but if
UNO is starting up a program, it must have.  There must be more rinks now.
There sure are plenty of nice, flat spaces to build them on :-).
 
Jill.
 
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