Totally agree with you on not showing the game on streaming. This is called laziness of the county of Albany management company of the arena to actually promote the event properly. The same reason there is no hockey in Albany anymore. The local stations don’t want to promote it except on the day before and day of. I have to say though the crowd was excellent. One of the better and i think it should show the arena that hockey can be sustainable
One other note being at the games. I think the women had its best showing of people actually come and watch the game. Woman’s hockey is definitely gaining in popularity and in the area more and more girls are playing (I think) than ever before. They had a group of 12-14 young girls on the ice in the first intermission.
And even though they Announced 7,300 it definitely felt like they had more people. The bottom bowl was 80-90% full and the 2nd level sides were 50-60% full I think.
All in all youth hockey is getting more and more popular in the area but the kids don’t have a ton of options to watch games in person without going 1-2 hours away.
The other problem is coverage. RPI has nobody who covers them like Schenectady has for Union. You guys do the best job
Good job as always. I totally agree with your opinion about not televising the game. Keep up the good work.
Totally agree with you on not showing the game on streaming. This is called laziness of the county of Albany management company of the arena to actually promote the event properly. The same reason there is no hockey in Albany anymore. The local stations don’t want to promote it except on the day before and day of. I have to say though the crowd was excellent. One of the better and i think it should show the arena that hockey can be sustainable
Glad the crowd was really good! Promotion should definitely be better as well, agreed there.
One other note being at the games. I think the women had its best showing of people actually come and watch the game. Woman’s hockey is definitely gaining in popularity and in the area more and more girls are playing (I think) than ever before. They had a group of 12-14 young girls on the ice in the first intermission.
And even though they Announced 7,300 it definitely felt like they had more people. The bottom bowl was 80-90% full and the 2nd level sides were 50-60% full I think.
All in all youth hockey is getting more and more popular in the area but the kids don’t have a ton of options to watch games in person without going 1-2 hours away.
The other problem is coverage. RPI has nobody who covers them like Schenectady has for Union. You guys do the best job