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Who we kidding...half empty would be great for a Panthers game as they usually get 10 people
Remember this game?
wasn`t that a free hot dog giveaway game too
Who we kidding...half empty would be great for a Panthers game as they usually get 10 people
Remember this game?
No idea what they had in mind when they picked either Wilmington or Brighton but both seem to be somewhat out of the way for the players and staff including the locker room, and training staff. I'd think that it would be more advantageous to have a facility in/along the Mystic river, say in Medford (where there are still good sized parcels of land to support a new facility) so that they are on path to go from TD Garden a few miles in a direct line to Medford and then either through the local roads or right onto route 93 up to Hanscom or to Logan depending where they are flying into or out of. It's easier to travel north to south in the Boston area than to travel east to west IMO.
Twin Rinks is still a dump.Personally, I liked it when they were at Twin Rinks. Two ice sheets, room for well over a thousand people to sit in the "A" rink--which had seating on both sides.
The place was a bit of a dump in the 80's, but that building had great potential if it had made it to the modern corporate era. There was no visionary working for the Bruins then. Just a gruff guy who still made good trades.
I wish this new place was going to be right with the Garden but whatever. It's long overdue.
Twin Rinks is still a dump.
I think you are thinking of another place--maybe Hockeytown in Saugus. Twin Rinks was on the Danvers/Peabody line and it closed a year or so after the Bruins left for Wilmington. Bruins held camp and practices there from about 1980-87.
Place had a lot of potential, but it was a different era. Lots of seating for an amateur rink. Frank Zappa, Willie Nelson and others actually played there.
most players/coaches lived north shore, lynnfield etc..when wilmington practice facility came online, made perfect sense.
Practice facilities and off-ice logistics are one of the most effective ways a big market team can flex their financial muscles in a hard cap league.
Ristuccia needed to go years ago.
F no they have a good setup at the back of Ristuccia and I play there and like the nice ice especially in the summer.
I hope this falls through Brighton is not easy to get to even if its right off the pike. You get off at that exit and its 20 minutes before you can take a left onto Harvard ave I don't like that part of town just because its so congested.
F no they have a good setup at the back of Ristuccia and I play there and like the nice ice especially in the summer.
I hope this falls through Brighton is not easy to get to even if its right off the pike. You get off at that exit and its 20 minutes before you can take a left onto Harvard ave I don't like that part of town just because its so congested.
F no they have a good setup at the back of Ristuccia and I play there and like the nice ice especially in the summer.
I hope this falls through Brighton is not easy to get to even if its right off the pike. You get off at that exit and its 20 minutes before you can take a left onto Harvard ave I don't like that part of town just because its so congested.
Never been to Ristuccia Arena, is it a case of it being too outdated?
Calling it too outdated would be kind. It's okay as far as youth and HS hockey skating rinks go, but nowhere near the caliber a professional practice arena should be. It's not even as nice as some junior and college rinks.
Oh good, well I hope the Bruins cancel their state-of-the-art practice facility development deal because one random dude likes the ice at Ristuccia and doesn't like traffic.
BOSTON, MA – The 17-time NBA Champion Boston Celtics and NB Development Group LLC announced today that Boston Landing, a mixed-used development in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston, will become the home of the Celtics’ new world-class practice and training facility.
”We are proud to team with New Balance Development in the creation of a best-in-class athletic training and practice facility that will provide Celtics players, coaches, and training staff with the resources, technology, and programming to compete at the highest level in an increasingly competitive NBA landscape,” said Rich Gotham, President of the Boston Celtics. “The Boston Landing location will bring us closer to our game day home at the TD Garden while providing high impact brand visibility.”
The Boston Celtics practice facility will be the latest dramatic element at Boston Landing — at 55 feet in the air cantilevered out to the edge of the Mass Pike. The Celtics new practice home, including the team’s 17 NBA championship banners, will be highly visible from the Massachusetts Turnpike with a forty foot glass wall enclosing the practice courts that face the approximately 130,000 daily commuters. The practice facility will encompass approximately 70,000 square feet.