The markings on the ice for the NCAA tournament were painted over the Sound Tigers’ markings, with more ice on top of that for the college games. After Yale and Duluth finished up last night, that ice and paint had to come up.
Most of it did. Some of it didn’t. Digging up what didn’t was part of what led to today’s game being postponed due to the ice conditions. They’ll play tomorrow at 1 (Syracuse wants to get out as quickly as possible, in no small part because the Crunch has an 11 a.m. game in Toronto on Wednesday). Free general admission on Monday, if you can make it. Those who held tickets can get refunds from where they bought them, or they can exchange them for tickets to any of the three other remaining home games.
Lousy break. Looked like a great crowd for Frans Nielsen bobblehead day.
Lines for a game that didn’t happen:
BRIDGEPORT
F: Romano-Colliton (A)-Rakhshani
Pereira-Ullstrom-Figren
McNeely-Hisey-Day
Ginand-Svendsen-Neigum
D: Katic-Reese (A)
Ness-Wotton (C)
Olson-Bidlevskii
G: Koskinen
Lawson
We shall see if they remain the same. Never actually made it down to that end of the back of the house.
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I posted a picture on Twitter of what it looked like over there behind the Cuse net. I’ll repost it here for those who missed it.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/vampirewarriorx/45260155.jpg
Comment by Ray — March 27th, 2011 @ 7:14 pm
Why not leave the ice?
Comment by Jon — March 27th, 2011 @ 7:34 pm
They need at least the trapezoids back. And they’d (and their sponsors would) surely rather not have the ads covered. All indications are that no one thought this would be a problem until gametime approached and it was.
Comment by Michael Fornabaio — March 27th, 2011 @ 7:45 pm
Why didn’t the Arena people work all night to fix this? They worked all night last week to get Fairfield up and running. Soundtigers are the main tenant and a pro team but it seems like they always play second fiddle to FU, NIT, NCAA & Elmo. The City just doesn’t care.
Comment by Lori — March 27th, 2011 @ 7:54 pm
Who said they didn’t work all night?
Comment by Michael Fornabaio — March 27th, 2011 @ 8:00 pm
when I got there it looked decent and then I think the zamboni guys went to deep on the cuts.. note to arena – don’t play on sunday in 2012 after ncaa
next year ncaa is 3/23-3/24, so no game on sunday 3/25 THANK YOU
Comment by hank — March 27th, 2011 @ 8:00 pm
yes, heard they indeed worked through the night. bigger change over than the bball game
Comment by hank — March 27th, 2011 @ 8:04 pm
Well we heard the ice was lousy at 10 AM and nothing had been done to it. So did they work all night? There was a big hole behind the net in section 111 and other holes that you could see the gray cement under it.
Comment by Lori — March 27th, 2011 @ 8:09 pm
It’s a shame, now 2 Sunday’s in a row the Soundtigers had big advance sales and last week the game was moved to 6PM and people did not show and now this Sunday’s cancellation. The sad thing is the city collected money for parking and did not refund it, that should be illegal. I hope that ESPN, the NIT, Fairfield University & the NCAA re-imburse the Soundtigers for their lost sales. Everyone gets in for free but what about the season ticket holders that paid for 40 games and now get 39 games? Do they get refunds?
Comment by Kevin — March 27th, 2011 @ 11:08 pm
everything that goes on there is minor league, not just the hockey.
Comment by j — March 28th, 2011 @ 9:40 am
Today’s game isn’t “free” for the thousands of fans who were in attendance on Sunday 3/27, stuck in the arena for three hours before any announcement was made regarding the cancellation/ postponement of the game. I heard the BST players were already showered and out the door way before the 5pm announcement was made!
Why were fans allowed in to begin with? Just so the Sound Tigers can rake in concessions? The ice was UNPLAYABLE from the get go. Where can I get my $5 refund for parking? The fair thing to do is when picking up these vouchers for a future game is that free parking and $10 worth of food/ drink are included! How’s that being fan friendly for a team that has the worst record in the AHL?
Comment by Jack — March 28th, 2011 @ 4:06 pm
TO JACK…You should talk to the City, I do not believe the Soundtigers make anything off of concessions & parking. By the way a few years back I went to a Bluefish game and the clouds rolled in during the anthem and before the first pitch was even thrown it poured and flooded the dugouts. The City’s parking people did not issue refunds but the Bluefish had to offer refunds. They hire minumum wage (workers) to work in the garage and parking lots. Bring these points up at the next City Common Council meeting. Write your aldermen, the parking authority and mayor Finch’s office. Also contact the CT Attorney General’s office, it was fraud to charge for parking for a game that was never played. BTW, do the NY Yankees ever give out parking refunds?
(From Fornabaio: Made an edit without changing the substance.)
Comment by Thomas — March 28th, 2011 @ 7:26 pm
No one refunds for parking! Tennis, baseball, football, or any other event to was postponed or cancelled.
Comment by raul17 — March 29th, 2011 @ 4:28 am