UConn broadcasts plans for opening new, on-campus hockey area
UConn’s plans for opening the brand new, on-campus hockey area have been finalized. On Friday, the varsity launched a micro-site with details about the upcoming season for season ticket holders that reveals how the Huskies plan to separate video games between the XL Heart in Hartford and Storrs.
As we reported on the UConn Hockey Hub earlier this week, UConn plans to host 17 males’s hockey video games this season with 12 on the XL Heart and 5 on the new rink — although that’s depending on the development timeline. If every thing stays on monitor, the varsity will open the world on Jan. 14 with a males’s and ladies’s double-header. Mike Cavanaugh’s squad will tackle Northeastern however the ladies’s group has not launched its dwelling slate.
After that, the Huskies’ males’s hockey squad will play its closing 4 dwelling video games — Saturday, Jan. 21 vs. UMass, Wednesday, Feb. 22 vs. Alaska Anchorage, Saturday, Feb. 25 vs. UNH and Friday, Mar. 3 vs. Boston School — in Storrs, with the Alaska Anchorage contest set to be a student-only recreation.
Because of this, season ticket packages will solely characteristic 16 video games however will embrace tickets to the contests at each the XL Heart and the brand new rink. For the 2022-23 marketing campaign solely, UConn will place patrons in seats based mostly on their Husky Athletic Fund precedence factors. Followers could have the chance to choose out of video games in Storrs when renewing or buying season tickets.
For the 2023-24 season, followers could have the choice to pick out their seats for video games within the new rink. The break up between video games in Hartford and Storrs has not been determined for that marketing campaign, although it’ll probably be someplace round 50/50. If it’s not equal, count on there to be extra video games on-campus than on the XL Heart.
Season ticket renewals start on Aug. 19 and can run via Sept. 19. New season tickets will go on sale on Sept. 29. For subsequent season, renewals and new gross sales will begin in February or March and can embrace a seat donation.
Entry to all ladies’s hockey video games this season can be free. The group will open the season at Freitas Ice Discussion board on campus earlier than transferring to the brand new area as soon as it’s accomplished. Data on ladies’s hockey tickets for 2023-24 can be launched later.
New info, renderings from new area
Along with ticket info, the web site additionally offered new info and renderings for the brand new area. Along with what we already know — it’ll seat 2,600, break up up between 80 p.c chair backs and 20 p.c bleachers, with a video board over heart ice and ribbon boards across the rink — the ability may also characteristic 4 varieties of premium seating.
There’s the ice-level lounge — which already exists on the XL Heart — with cafe-style seating and bar; the membership lounge, positioned above the concourse at heart ice with 145 cushioned seats, drink rail seats and a bar space; on-the-glass seats; and ticketed drink rail seats alongside the concourse with bar-style chairs and a desk.
