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Rails Hockey wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:38 am

Schotzy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:56 am

norcon wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:18 pm
Personally, I believe the section final should be moved around to neutral sites. Alternate between Bemidji in the north and St. Cloud in the south. Amsoil is nice but very overrated by a few on this board. The atmosphere there the last number of years has been very stale. Time to take away Easts home ice advantage too.

Blah, blah, blah, East has an advantage...blah...Amsoil sucks....blah, blah, blah.

It is not Amsoil that is "stale". If anything, the match-ups are what suck the energy out of the building. It is a neutral site. Nothing stopping the southern teams from scheduling practice ice at Amsoil. There is a television/streaming contract that the MSHSL makes money from. That money goes away if moved to any site outside the WDIO (Duluth's ABC Affiliate) viewing area. Amsoil is set up to accommodate said television broadcasts. The television bit is probably the main reason the section games are played in Duluth.

Is there any chance that WDIO will broadcast the Section 7 Finals this year Schotzy?

Usthockey13 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:22 am Also all the coaches have voted to play the games at Amsoil. So the only people that really care are the fans.

MWS coach wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:25 pm Some topics never fail to prompt some banter on the board!

MWS coach wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:40 pm How is this a net negative?
"Same conference means one game, not two. And Rapids has scheduled them twice the last few years, before they were in the LSC. If it’s the difference between hosting the Section final at IRA or traveling to Andover it’s a net negative regardless of the quality of the games, in my opinion."

Just bringing back the good old times! It doesn't matter if section finals and semi-finals are at Amsoil, but it does if they are in Andover?