2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

[BGDrew]

It's ridiculous how many press boxes don't have a dedicated wi-fi feed exclusive to the press box, but you get the shared feed with the rest of the crowd. Sometimes makes me long for the days of AOL DialUp when trying to pass along scores from other games.

And the UAH/Tech feed is lousy again. There should also be a line solely dedicated to the video feed.

I can't tell you how much of a joy it is to see an Ethernet port in a press box.

Everyone complains about WCHA.tv or if a radio feed gets lost, but no one thinks to spend money on the press box and infrastructure to eliminate those issues. The press box is always the last spot to see renovations.

It also doesn't help that half the rinks in the league aren't run by the universities.

[davyd83]

I can't tell you how much of a joy it is to see an Ethernet port in a press box.

Everyone complains about WCHA.tv or if a radio feed gets lost, but no one thinks to spend money on the press box and infrastructure to eliminate those issues. The press box is always the last spot to see renovations.

It also doesn't help that half the rinks in the league aren't run by the universities.

Even better is a properly working Ethernet port! But those still do little for an iPad or any tablet. I've started to carry a mobile hot spot along.

[gfmorris]

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

This entire conversation renews my regular urge to win the lottery and build UAH a new rink...

GFM

[Jimjamesak]

Reminds me of an ECHL Idaho Steelheads game I was listening to back in the day. On one of their games on the road in Anchorage, they lost the feed for almost a whole period because some kids tripped over the phone cord the Steelheads broadcaster was using to send the feed back home. Apparently they would just coil up the cords from the press box and run them along the hallway. Staff at the Sullivan couldn't find where the cord was at to plug it back in.

Sounds about par for the course for the Sully. And the Aces, what a *show of an organization.

[AKSWF]

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Sounds about par for the course for the Sully. And the Aces, what a *show of an organization.

Now featuring free massages during the games


Yes that almost happened, Bob is also falling from grace with a silly little yes man on his morning show.

[Squarebanks]

Now featuring free massages during the games


Yes that almost happened, Bob is also falling from grace with a silly little yes man on his morning show.

He still has a morning show? Granted I haven't listened to KWHL since Pandora became a thing.

[AKSWF]

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

He still has a morning show? Granted I haven't listened to KWHL since Pandora became a thing.

I've learned the show was only good with Mark, quiet quiet Mark. With Nikki & Chad it was alright, now just Bob & Chad it is unlistenable. I fired up the KWHL app a month ago and got through five minutes, only because of a BIG concert announcement, for some band I've never heard of, at Koots. That was the nail in the coffin for me. Reminded me of that Bob & Tom show. I can just imagine how the Aces games are now.

[JohnsonsJerseys]

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Reminded me of that Bob & Tom show....

Some parts of rural America are STILL listening to that show along with other morning gems like Man Cow. That's one nice part of moving to a big city - my morning DJ selection has increased ten fold. Not that I listen to any of them, but it's nice to have choices when you want them. Central WI... ahh, not so much. They had BOTH of those shows as part of the local morning line-up.
Ryan

[beaverhockeyfan]

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

2016-17 WCHA Non-Conference Schedule, one non-conference game left on the schedule.......

The WCHA has 69 non-conference games this year, not including the one game between Alaska and Alaska-Anchorage.
24 NCHC Games (3-18-3)
25 Possible Big10 Games (9-15-1)
9 Hockey East Games (1-7-1)
6 Atlantic Hockey Games (2-3-0)
5 ECAC Games (1-4-0)
TOTAL: 16-47-5

ALABAMA-HUNTSVILLE (0-6-0)
-2 at Connecticut L 6-0, L 4-0
-2 at St. Cloud State L 5-1, L 5-2
-vs. Massachusetts (Minneapolis, MN) L 2-1 OT
-vs. Mercyhurst (Minneapolis, MN) L 3-2 OT

ALASKA (1-5-0)
-at Alaska-Anchorage W 4-1
-vs. Minnesota (Anchorage, AK) L 6-3
-Canisius L 2-1 (OT)
-Nebraska-Omaha L 4-3 (OT)
-2 at Notre Dame L 5-0, L 4-0

ALASKA-ANCHORAGE (1-5-0)
-Minnesota L 6-0
-Alaska L 4-1
-vs. Nebraska-Omaha (Fairbanks, AK) L 3-1
-vs. Canisius (Fairbanks, AK) W 1-0
-2 at Penn State L 6-3, L 3-1

BEMIDJI STATE (0-7-1)
-2 at North Dakota L 3-2, L 5-4
-2 with Princeton L 4-1, L 3-1
-at Minnesota-Duluth T 1-1
-Minnesota Duluth L 2-1
-vs. St. Cloud State (St. Paul, MN) L 2-1
-vs. Minnesota (St. Paul, MN) L 4-0

BOWLING GREEN (2-4-1)
-Western Michigan T 4-4
-at Western Michigan L 8-2
-Ohio State L 5-4
-at Ohio State L 6-1
-2 at Miami L 2-1 (OT), W 4-1
-vs. RIT (Toledo, OH) W 3-0
-with Mercyhurst

FERRIS STATE (1-5-1)
-Western Michigan L 5-3
-at Western Michigan L 2-1
-Michigan L 2-1
-at Michigan State W 4-1
-Michigan State L 4-3
-vs. Robert Morris (Pittsburgh, PA) L 1-0
-vs. Boston College (Pittsburgh, PA) T 1-1

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE (3-3-0)
-2 with Michigan State W 6-1, W 7-3
-2 at Michigan W 3-1, L 4-1
-2 at Nebraska-Omaha L 4-1, L 5-3

MICHIGAN TECH (3-6-1)
-2 at Minnesota Duluth L 6-0, L 4-3
-2 at Michigan L 4-3, T 3-3
-2 at Michigan State L 3-2 (OT), W 5-1
-vs. Michigan (Detroit, MI) W 2-0
-vs. Western Michigan (Detroit, MI) L 1-0 OT
-2 at Notre Dame L 3-1, W 4-2

MINNESOTA STATE (4-2-0)
-2 with St. Cloud State W 4-1, W 6-4
-Minnesota W 4-1
-at Minnesota L 1-0
-2 at Princeton L 6-1, W 5-4

NORTHERN MICHIGAN (2-5-1)
-2 vs. Wisconsin (at Green Bay) W 3-2, L 6-5
-2 at Wisconsin W 5-2, L 2-0
-2 with Nebraska-Omaha T 2-2, L 2-0
-vs. Cornell (Estero, FL) L 5-2
-vs. Merrimack (Estero, FL) L 4-2

[manurespreader]

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

This entire conversation renews my regular urge to win the lottery and build UAH a new rink...

GFM

Well There are a few schools in our league that would kill for a rink as nice as yours.

[Squarebanks]

I've learned the show was only good with Mark, quiet quiet Mark. With Nikki & Chad it was alright, now just Bob & Chad it is unlistenable. I fired up the KWHL app a month ago and got through five minutes, only because of a BIG concert announcement, for some band I've never heard of, at Koots. That was the nail in the coffin for me. Reminded me of that Bob & Tom show. I can just imagine how the Aces games are now.

When I was at UAF they simulcast the Bob and Mark show on 104.7 in Fairbanks...it was actually funny in those days. Crude, but funny. Then 100.5 in Anchorage gave them the boot after enough of the crude part and brought in Woody and Wilcox, who were funnier than B&M (and have since gone national). B&M were never all that funny after they moved to KWHL and couldnt be as crude. Some of the bits B&M broadcast 15-20 years ago would cause an uproar in today's world.

Now I just listen to Pandora or sports radio. I think radio is about to face the same issues that newspapers have been dealing with for the last decade, especially stations with a music format.

[gfmorris]

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Well There are a few schools in our league that would kill for a rink as nice as yours.

You haven't been in the press box or locker rooms. Thankfully we've gotten back to equal billing with the local SPHL franchise rather than getting shafted. The Huntsville Hockey logo at center ice was very, very, very well received by the community, especially those of us Charger fans.

Also, the VBC is too **** big for us and has been for 15 years.

GFM

[davyd83]

Well There are a few schools in our league that would kill for a rink as nice as yours.

Maybe Anchorage. The main body of the Fairbanks arena would be comparable, but the player facilities are far superior in Alaska. I love making the trips to Huntsville & Anchorage, but their rinks are on the bottom of the list overall.

[AKSWF]

Re: 2016-2017 WCHA Season Thread

Central WI... ahh, not so much. They had BOTH of those shows as part of the local morning line-up.
Ryan

Ugh.

When I was at UAF they simulcast the Bob and Mark show on 104.7 in Fairbanks...it was actually funny in those days. Crude, but funny. Then 100.5 in Anchorage gave them the boot after enough of the crude part and brought in Woody and Wilcox, who were funnier than B&M (and have since gone national). B&M were never all that funny after they moved to KWHL and couldnt be as crude. Some of the bits B&M broadcast 15-20 years ago would cause an uproar in today's world.

Now I just listen to Pandora or sports radio. I think radio is about to face the same issues that newspapers have been dealing with for the last decade, especially stations with a music format.

I believe 100.5 had Bob & Tom and then switched to Woody and Wilcox, can't think of another FM station that would carry Bob & Tom here in ANC. Everything is changing; Pandora/Spotify/Apple Music/iPods/heck even cd's are being used more than the radio in my friends cars, there's maybe a handful of my college friends that have cable/a dish provider, newspaper hah! If there is a way without ads we gobble it up, not realizing what we are giving up in the process but I digress.

Without a split when MSU comes to town, I fear our playoff hopes are gone. Northern can very easily leave us hanging in last place.

[Squarebanks]

Ugh.




I believe 100.5 had Bob & Tom and then switched to Woody and Wilcox, can't think of another FM station that would carry Bob & Tom here in ANC. Everything is changing; Pandora/Spotify/Apple Music/iPods/heck even cd's are being used more than the radio in my friends cars, there's maybe a handful of my college friends that have cable/a dish provider, newspaper hah! If there is a way without ads we gobble it up, not realizing what we are giving up in the process but I digress.

Without a split when MSU comes to town, I fear our playoff hopes are gone. Northern can very easily leave us hanging in last place.

You guys are only five points back, and Huntsville has a tougher schedule the rest of the way. I wouldn't give up hope.