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Wausau
Jan 20, 2008 21:07:58 GMT -5
Post by gbpuckfan on Jan 20, 2008 21:07:58 GMT -5
I saw the story on the blog. No mention of funding but I hope they can working something out. GB needs a close travel situation.
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Wausau
Jan 23, 2008 22:37:40 GMT -5
Post by johnmeissner on Jan 23, 2008 22:37:40 GMT -5
"Travel Partner" is an overused and misspoken term. It would mean, for instance Green Bay would come to Kearney one night and Wausau the next. The league very rarely schedules teams to travel in tandem, if ever.
For instanc: Wouldn't Tri-City's "travel partner" be Lincoln? Yet, how man cities ever see Tri-City one night and Lincoln the next? Or Omaha/Siou City? Or Des Moines/Cedar Rapids?
When it comes right down to it, there are no "travel partners" in the USHL.
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Wausau
Jan 24, 2008 10:54:23 GMT -5
Post by Marc Foster on Jan 24, 2008 10:54:23 GMT -5
I'll explain what "travel partner" means to me. It's not so much focused on who is traveling, but where they are going.
I've got evidence out the wazoo that teams that schedule games on consecutive nights against the same opponent suffer at the box office. The fan psychology is that the casual/walk-up fan (non-STH) will select one game or the other to attend, but not BOTH. If there are different opponents on consecutive nights, those people are more like to attend both games.
So to grab from the other thread about Texas in the USHL (which isn't going to happen)... If, due to travel efficiencies, Texas brings in a single team for a pair of weekend games, it will not draw as well as if different teams came in. Well, that second team needs somewhere to play the first night, so that's where the second market in relative proximity comes in. If you have traveling teams A & B, and home teams X & Y, A plays X on Friday and Y on Saturday, while B plays Y on Friday and X on Saturday.
I have a programmer friend who about ten years ago for his MS in computer science wrote a program that minimizes travel costs for hockey leagues based on various parameters, distance traveled, gas price, lodging costs, dates available (and ranked), how many games played against one division vs. another, etc... It didn't take us long to figure out that outliers are more efficient when there are pairs or more.
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Wausau
Jan 25, 2008 7:21:31 GMT -5
Post by gbpuckfan on Jan 25, 2008 7:21:31 GMT -5
Well, I didn't use the term "travel partner."
The NCHA has travel partners - CSS and UWS, SNC and LFC, UWEC and UWSP, UWS and UWRF, I believe. Tonight, SNC hosts UWEC, tomorrow UWEC goes to LFC. I get it.
I said travel situation.
Cedar Rapids and Waterloo are, what 30-45 minutes apart? Lincoln and Omaha about the same... The Siouxs aren't all that far apart. Meanwhile, Green Bay's closest trip - through no one's fault - is 3.5 hours. All I meant was it would be very nice to have a team 75 minutes away.
It would save on money, wear and tear on the boys and increase fan interest with a rival. And it make those stupid weekday games more palatable.
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Wausau
Jan 28, 2008 10:23:56 GMT -5
Post by gbpuckfan on Jan 28, 2008 10:23:56 GMT -5
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Wausau
Feb 12, 2008 9:27:13 GMT -5
Post by gbpuckfan on Feb 12, 2008 9:27:13 GMT -5
another update, not much new:
ROTHSCHILD, Wis. (AP) - Plans for an ice arena in Rothschild are moving forward.
The village board is working on plans for a 4,000-seat arena in the Cedar Creek area.
The facility would include a large ice rink and several smaller
ones, as well as a state of the art sound system.
Village president Neal Torney says most board members favor the plan, but they're proceeding with caution.
Torney says they want to make sure the facility if self
supporting.
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from WAOW.com
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