Northern Educate/Achiever Academy buys Vadnais Complex

[AAA Dad]

If NE financing is secured and deal closes in 45 days look for NE enrollment to boom next year with a real home rink and a long term commitment by NE.

[hockeyheaven]

If NE financing is secured and deal closes in 45 days look for NE enrollment to boom next year with a real home rink and a long term commitment by NE.

I wonder how that effects the Hockey teams from White Bear HS?

[Otter]

If NE financing is secured and deal closes in 45 days look for NE enrollment to boom next year with a real home rink and a long term commitment by NE.

I wonder how that effects the Hockey teams from White Bear HS?

To heck with WBL teams--the bigger worry is what's going to happen to Sak's... Nothing good can come of it once the High School League gets involved because the building is owned by a school and MSHSL member.

[AAA Dad]

My guess is that "Achiever Academy HS" will not own the rink and Saks stays put paying rent.

[hockeyheaven]

If NE financing is secured and deal closes in 45 days look for NE enrollment to boom next year with a real home rink and a long term commitment by NE.

I wonder how that effects the Hockey teams from White Bear HS?

To heck with WBL teams--the bigger worry is what's going to happen to Sak's... Nothing good can come of it once the High School League gets involved because the building is owned by a school and MSHSL member.

Being an aquatic mammal frozen water may not be at the top of your priority... as say…extremely average watering holes… however, this would be a shame for the local high school teams… not to mention the Association. This type of complex was a long time in the making and although bully for Vadnais for stepping up and initiating the development…shame on them for also squandering it. The White Bear folks most certainly held up their part of the bargain thru user fees and support. Mismanagement…and now this contemptible attempt to save what’s left of their face...nice, real nice. One has to ask how does this help the community? The county or the association would have been the more ethical recipient. So you lost 14 million what’s another 3… at least the true intent would have been preserved… not another group of entitled elitists…ahhh forget it.

[Otter]

1. White bears are also aquatic mammals, yet they like frozen water.
2. The narrative is that Achiever Academy kids skate all day long so they can have the Norman Rockwell family life with mom and dad in front of the fireplace doing homework in the evenings. There shouldn't be any overlap with the WBL HS and association except when they have home games.
3. For a visitor, Vadnais is sterile and has no character--I'd much rather watch games at the Sports Center.

[Homer]

I wonder how that effects the Hockey teams from White Bear HS?

To heck with WBL teams--the bigger worry is what's going to happen to Sak's... Nothing good can come of it once the High School League gets involved because the building is owned by a school and MSHSL member.

Being an aquatic mammal frozen water may not be at the top of your priority... as say…extremely average watering holes… however, this would be a shame for the local high school teams… not to mention the Association. This type of complex was a long time in the making and although bully for Vadnais for stepping up and initiating the development…shame on them for also squandering it. The White Bear folks most certainly held up their part of the bargain thru user fees and support. Mismanagement…and now this contemptible attempt to save what’s left of their face...nice, real nice. One has to ask how does this help the community? The county or the association would have been the more ethical recipient. So you lost 14 million what’s another 3… at least the true intent would have been preserved… not another group of entitled elitists…ahhh forget it.

White bear folks did not hold up their end of the bargain. They inflated projections to the Vadnais heights board. White bear hockey had been trying for years to get someone else to build an arena. Because the people of WBL kept voting it down. The arena is similar to the dome, built on the cheap with no character. That arena was a fiascoe from the start, hopefully NE can come in and make it worth while.