re: It is time for LSU Hockey

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Honestly sharing the arena with basketball won’t work. I get the NHL does it but each time has a practice rink. Most club teams play out of local rinks.

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How do the northern schools do it for games? Yes, you would need practice ice as well. I would not think building a practice rink would be all that expensive... and when the team isn't using it, they could rent it out to local leagues, birthday parrties, etc.

Single A hockey team in Monroe averages 5,000 people a game! Monroe !!!

People love it there and there’s the BR team the Zydeco.

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Our heritage is full of Scandinavians

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Of course. Other than Mondo Duplantis, there's the basketball hero Jordy Hultberg, of Louisiana Swede stock, and anyone named Darensbourg (both white and Creole) has Swedish ancestry; they settled in the river parishes. Also any "Hammond" who grew up in Livingston or Tangipahoa parish is likely to be Swedish.

Live in Dallas, my kids have played multiple games on the Stars practice ice. My comment was more you can’t just pull the court up in a new arena up and put it back quickly, It’s a couple of hours process. The basketball teams need a practice court each, the ice hockey team needs a sheet, assuming the hugest rated team of the group to use the arena would want it setup for gymnastics too. That’s a lot of teams fighting over the space. TCU, SMU, UNT and DBU all have teams, they all play at a local rink, not on campus. As much as I love BR I don’t see it supporting a rink and teams to fill it when there is not one to play. The stars have 6 local rinks and are building a 7th. Each has a local and select team so that makes 2 leaders where you don’t have to travel out of the metro area. At absolute best you get a team in Nola, BR and Laf. Also the hs team in Shreveport comes over to DFW every other weekend and plays 2 games a day in that league. Sorry I just don’t see it working but partly I would love for my kids to play hockey at LSU but partly the experience of it seems like a beating and I want them to play somewhere that’s more invested, not just saying it because there is a rumor about an nhl team potentially coming to town. And on that note I love the saints but no way Mr B was or Miss Gayle is dropping the money on investing in the youth program that it takes to make a team long term successful.

I don't think people realize how expensive it is to have and maintain an ice surface/facility.

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More entertaining then men’s basketball at LSU

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* than. A comparison.

Read a book.