Tonight I took my first trip to the new Compton Family Ice Arena on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. The Irish hockey team took on the Falcons of Bowling Green in a 4-3 victory. So I decided I would use tonight's post to talk about the new arena. For starters the University did a great job at matching the outside brick work with the Joyce Center (Basketball) and the Football stadium. When you walk in the doors you get that ND atmosphere plus the rush of dare I say "new car smell." The arena consists of ice level seating and an upper deck. I was in the first row of the upper deck just to the left of one of the nets and the band. One thing that Compton has that I haven't seen in any other hockey arena is that the the team benches were on opposite sides of the ice instead of being on the same side. This is due to the lockers rooms being built on opposite sides of the arena. From what I can tell there isn't a bad seat in the house and the seat I was in had a great view. The major issue I noticed is that when the Zamboni resurfaced the ice in between periods one end of the ice seemed to gather water meaning that the facility or at least the ice probably isn't level, but it sure was funny watching the officials grab the ice scrappers the clear it up before the start of the next period. To sum things up the University did a great job with the facility which cost $50,000,000 and holds just over 5,000 people.
Well that is going to sum things up for this week of the BSB. Like I said short and sweet due to me being on Spring Break. Once again I would like to say thank you to all who actually take the time to read these posts. Hope every one has a good weekend and Happy March!
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