Seawolves Fans

So the Islanders have completed their practice facility in Nassau County but close to Belmont Park.  Here is some photos from their Architecture firm.  http://www.andrusarchitecture.com/ny-islanders.html

It looks like one of the rinks has several thousand seats.  Can’t find on the internet what the capacity is.  But since it’s rare for a DI school like LIU-Brooklyn at add women’s ice hockey without a men’s team, this could be the next step for the combined DI campuses.  Atlantic Hockey is at eleven and needs one more and a NY metro team would be perfect for them.

Any faults in my logic?  Presume the Post campus is close.

NHL teams want local NCAA teams.  The Blackhawks support Illini hockey, the Sabres owner built the Penn St rink let’s Canisius use the Sabres practice rink with 2000 seats and may support a Buffalo NCAA team, the Red Wings want Oakland U to start a Detroit area NCAA team, and the Penguins are rumored to be behind an effort to get Pitt a team.  No idea if the Islanders secretly are pushing for an NCAA team, but the Nassau County Coliseum will need teams in the future.  LIU could well fit the bill.

Don’t live in the metro and have been exposed to much college hockey.  Just want to see it grow.  Vastly prefer the Islanders.

The NCAA does not require on campus hockey arenas.  Hockey East does so UCONN will build a small on campus arena but still play most of its games in Hartford whole Hocker East waides oFF that rule..  Defending champion Mn-Duluth doesn't have an on-campus arena.

With LIU recently adding women’s hockey to their Brooklyn campus, expect that the Post campus will add men’s hockey and maybe play in the Nassau County Coliseum.  That would create a wintertime sports focus for Post and the Brooklyn campus will still have basketball.

Not many schools add women’s hockey without having men’s, as only Syracuse and Lindenwood have WIH without men’s.  But both will probably add mens when a conference spot opens up.

For a long time, thought SBU was a natural for hockey, but LIU has already made moves toward it.  The New York metro needs more college hockey as its limited right now to Princeton and Army.  Long Island proper sends a lot of hockey players to the NCAA without a home team. 

The athletic consolidation eliminates a number of excess programs, like M&W Basketball, softball at Post and baseball, soccer and W lax at Brooklyn so that creates a funding source to tackle men’s hockey.  Adding women’s hockey and W water polo at Brooklyn seems to be a Title IX exercise that was preplanned for adding hockey and going FCS with fb at Post.  Both campuses will have a number of sports so neither of them will feel left out.  It will be better for the Post campus as they won’t have to go through a transition and won’t have to field 14 teams.

Personally feel as if Buffalo dropped a number of sports and will later add M&W hockey when the coast is clear.  Stony Brook wants to move to FBS so that is the priority for spending,