Beginning with the 2018-19 season, Amsoil Arena will offer expanded beer and wine sales for University of Minnesota Duluth men’s and women’s hockey games. (more…)
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Fifty Years of Arena Action on the Duluth Waterfront
In the early 1960s, college hockey was barely a thing, with most programs housed in small facilities or in off-campus rinks. With the opening of the Duluth Arena fifty years ago, that status changed, with the bar dramatically raised for what fans and players can expect from a college-hockey facility. (more…)
WCHA shrinks even further in 2013
The WCHA, already reeling from the loss of some high-profile Big Ten schools, is losing five more members in 2013, as the grand shakeup of college-hockey conferences continues. The five schools leaving to form their own conference with Miami (Ohio): Colorado College, University of Denver, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Nebraska-Omaha and University of North […]
SCSU eyes $28M renovation of National Hockey Center
A $28 million renovation of the National Hockey Center is under review, as St. Cloud State University finds it needs to improve its facilities to stay current in the college-hockey arms race. When it opened, the National Hockey Center was quite the accomplishment for SCSU and a key to that program raising to Division I […]
Concrete floor poured at new Duluth arena
A milestone of sorts was reached yesterday at Duluth’s Amsoil Arena: the concrete floor, requiring 32 loads and 615 tons of concrete to cover 60,000 feet of coolant, was poured. All went smoothly. The new arena, set to open this December as the University of Minnesota-Duluth hockey teams, will be a little quiet in the […]
