What a hockey game this will be!!

[It's the Journey...]

I will put this here because I don't want to be crucified for mentioning another school in any other forum. This is from today's Lantern down at OSU.

OSU will drop puck on NFL holy ground

By Jeff Svoboda
Published: Friday, June 3, 2005

The Buckeyes are headed to Lambeau Field, and while the playing surface won't be tundra, it will definitely be frozen.

Ohio State and Wisconsin have reached an agreement for the schools' men's hockey teams to play an outdoor game in Green Bay's Lambeau Field on Feb. 11, 2006.

"I was blown away when I heard that," senior captain Nate Guenin said. "It's the mecca of all athletic facilities, and the opportunity to play the first hockey game there is very special."

OSU will have to reconfigure its schedule to fit the game because it had previously scheduled a Central Collegiate Hockey Association series with Michigan State for that weekend. The series might have to move to the middle of the week because the Buckeyes will lose a weekend of regular-season play with the addition of a week to the CCHA playoffs.

The game would be the second college hockey game to be played outdoors. On Oct. 6, 2001, Michigan and Michigan State played in front of 74,554 fans in MSU's Spartan Stadium. In a game dubbed "The Cold War," the No. 1 Spartans and the No. 4 Wolverines played to a 3-3 tie.

The National Hockey League has also played one regular-season game outdoors. The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in a game played in Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium on Nov. 22, 2003. 57,617 fans braved below zero temperatures to see the "Heritage Classic," a game memorable for Canadian goaltender Jose Theodore wearing a toque over his helmet because of the frigid temperatures.

Both games featured a regulation sheet of ice placed at midfield of the football stadiums.

The last time OSU and Wisconsin met on the rink was March 26, 2004 in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Albany, N.Y. Wisconsin ended the Buckeyes' season with a 1-0 overtime win.

Last year, OSU, ranked No. 9 in the country, was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA tournament with a 3-2 loss to Cornell in Minneapolis. Wisconsin carried a No. 13 ranking into the tournament and lost to Michigan in the first round.

"You want two of the top teams playing in a venue like that," Guenin said. "You get to test yourself on a grand stage. Any time you get to play one of the elite programs, you have to step it up."

Lambeau Field has been the home of the National Football League's Green Bay Packers since 1957. Green Bay's northern winters have led to numerous late-season games - including the "Ice Bowl," the 1967 NFL Championship game - being played in frigid temperatures, earning the stadium the moniker "The Frozen Tundra." It is one of the most historic and famous professional athletic facilities in the country.

Guenin said everyone he has talked to is excited for the game.

"Everybody we tell about the game, their eyes just light up and they almost can't believe it," he said.

[BGALUMNI]

Sounds stupid to me, but oh well.

[It's the Journey...]

Either one, you don't follow college hockey because they have been doing this with other schools around the country; or two, you don't like hockey. Either way I think in this time of the "No Hockey League" this is a great gimic to expose some more fans to the college game, which I consider to be better than the professional game. I believe this will be the third or fourth game like this. I know it has been done in Michigan, Minnesota, and I think Boston College and Boston University played a game like this. If you have the capability and can fill the house, which this will, then get it done and drop the puck.

[PGY Tiercel]

Its a fun gimick, and probably be fun to say you were at a game like that, but if you really wanted to see the game its not that great. UK played MSU at ford field 2yrs ago (basketball record attempt). It was a great game to watch on tv, but just about every article in the paper said something about not really being able to actually see what was going if you were there. That said, I still think it would be fun to go to a hockey or basketball game in that type of setting.

[TG1996]

""It's the mecca of all athletic facilities..."

Think they've hung him for sacrilege yet? For not saying that Ohio Stadium, or the Schott, or the tennis courts near Lane and Woodruff are the mecca of athletic facilities?

Next thing you know, he's going to come out in a scientific journal and claim the earth only revolves around the sun, and not Jim Tressel's head.

[Guest]

Either one, you don't follow college hockey because they have been doing this with other schools around the country; or two, you don't like hockey. Either way I think in this time of the "No Hockey League" this is a great gimic to expose some more fans to the college game, which I consider to be better than the professional game. I believe this will be the third or fourth game like this. I know it has been done in Michigan, Minnesota, and I think Boston College and Boston University played a game like this. If you have the capability and can fill the house, which this will, then get it done and drop the puck.

I like hockey (college hockey only, pro hockey is dead to me as is pro baseball), but I HATE Ohio State...period.

Getting excited over a Ohio State game is what is stupid...

[Guest]

Either one, you don't follow college hockey because they have been doing this with other schools around the country; or two, you don't like hockey. Either way I think in this time of the "No Hockey League" this is a great gimic to expose some more fans to the college game, which I consider to be better than the professional game. I believe this will be the third or fourth game like this. I know it has been done in Michigan, Minnesota, and I think Boston College and Boston University played a game like this. If you have the capability and can fill the house, which this will, then get it done and drop the puck.

I like hockey (college hockey only, pro hockey is dead to me as is pro baseball), but I HATE Ohio State...period.

Getting excited over a Ohio State game is what is stupid...

[It's the Journey...]

Thanks for the post post. I guess I should have gotten the article from the student paper at the University of Wisconsin. I'll do better the next time I try to show something that can be good publicity for an entire sport.

[BGALUMNI]

Thanks for the post post. I guess I should have gotten the article from the student paper at the University of Wisconsin. I'll do better the next time I try to show something that can be good publicity for an entire sport.

The "post post" was a computer glitch and I am sorry for busting your chops...but still not a big fan of anything to do with Ohio State. I spent too many years in BG listening to BG students root for Ohio State in EVERY sport (Even against BG) that I can't stand the institution.

[It's the Journey...]

The post post was a little ove the line, sorry about that. But it sounds like your beef is with stupd kids who don't realize they are at the best university in Ohio, and not with the people at OSU. And I can't stand those people either.

[BGDrew]

The "post post" was a computer glitch and I am sorry for busting your chops...but still not a big fan of anything to do with Ohio State. I spent too many years in BG listening to BG students root for Ohio State in EVERY sport (Even against BG) that I can't stand the institution.

No one was praising OSU, they were praising the idea of a college game being played outside.

[BGALUMNI]

The "post post" was a computer glitch and I am sorry for busting your chops...but still not a big fan of anything to do with Ohio State. I spent too many years in BG listening to BG students root for Ohio State in EVERY sport (Even against BG) that I can't stand the institution.

No one was praising OSU, they were praising the idea of a college game being played outside.

OSU...I didn't mention Oklahoma State University...

I didn't say anyone was praising Ohio State in this thread, but what I did say is that I hate all things dealing with Ohio State.

[It's the Journey...]

It's just like ramming your head into a brick wall over and over and over again. :shrug:

Like I said earlier. It sounds like you are upset with a few BG students who need geography lessons and not another university. What have they ever done to you personally? But then again, I guess if the game would have been the University of Denver and Minnesota then it would have been alright.

[Bleeding Orange]

It's just like ramming your head into a brick wall over and over and over again. :shrug:

Like I said earlier. It sounds like you are upset with a few BG students who need geography lessons and not another university. What have they ever done to you personally? But then again, I guess if the game would have been the University of Denver and Minnesota then it would have been alright.

Will you just calm down, already. All this guy is saying is that he doesn't like anything having to do with OSU (pick your state ). Of course he is upset with BG students who can't even take an interest in the university from which they will get their degree. What those students don't realize is that the more successful all aspects of BGSU are, the more their degree will be worth after they graduate -- and that includes athletics because it is such a visible facade of any university at the D1A level. Anyone who goes to Bowling Green should resent those kinds of people, in my opinion, because all they do is serve to devalue our university and raise the stature of another. Its despicable and people like that, honestly, don't even belong here. They aren't supporting the university now, and probably won't after they graduate. I would also be willing to bet that 90% of them are adding nothing to the academic culture at this university, either.

Two points of clarification, as well:

(1) I'm not talking about people who come to BGSU and just simply don't like sports. Thats fine, every university has those people.

(2) I'm not talking about people who are BG fans first and Blackeyes fans second (although you know how I feel about you, Matt ).

That being said, f**k OSU. There. I feel MUCH better!

[It's the Journey...]

I agree with you that the kind of people who aren't going to support us because of who we aren't need to take the next bus out of town. But the whole point of my post was to say this is a cool event. I would love to see us play in a game like this in the future. It really doesn't matter who the schools are, it's a great concept. This is what feeds that claim that everyone else in the state just wants to be a buckeye. Besides the fact that we are (state tree or nut or something like that), if we ignore them it will go away. If you are that anti one certain school just forget about them. I do it with the whole state of Michigan everyday, that is until a driver from that cursed state is around me. To keep ripping on them simply feeds their fire and ego. Let me go get ready to be reemed now.