Want Hockey? Try Bobcats
The following article appeared in the January 5 issue of The Republican-American. Article can be accessed via the Waterbury Republican-American Web site by clicking here.
BY JOE PALLADINO
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
Forget about scrounging tickets to Gampel, or upgrading your
university contribution for choice seats at the building formerly
known as the Hartford Civic Center.
The happening place to be this winter in college athletics is a few
minutes down the road, in a brand-spanking new $64-million athletic
facility that boasts side-by-side hockey and basketball arenas. In
this neck of the collegiate woods, the focus is on de hockey.
Hamden is home of the Bobcats, the Quinnipiac University men's
hockey team, which is currently ranked 14th in the nation in
Division I by Inside College Hockey, and 18th by U.S. College
Hockey Online, and currently, if you want to see a ranked D-I men's
team right now, Quinnipiac hockey is your only choice.
If you love college hockey, and we know that you do, then you've
likely already made your annual pilgrimage to Ingalls Rink to watch
the Yalies.
Here's an even better pilgrimage, to Hamden, to the bodacious 3,300
seat TD Banknorth Sports Center, to watch the gangbuster Bobcats
play in one of the best collegiate hockey conferences in the land,
the ECAC.
Friday night, Quinnipiac extended its current unbeaten streak to
six games after a 3-3 tie with mighty Harvard in a battle between
two top 20 teams in a sold-out house.
Sunday, Quinnipiac hosts Dartmouth (3 p.m.), and with students still away on school break, you can walk up and buy a ticket.
