University Chronicle

The campus of SCSU is undergoing a major overhaul, with the construction of ISELF and the multimillion dollar renovations to the current hockey center.

Morris Kurtz, the director of Athletics at SCSU, at the National Hockey and Event Center groundbreaking on March 2, 2012 said, “It’s been an economic engine; The National Hockey Center for the last 25 years, not only for the school of St. Cloud State University, but indeed for all of Central Minnesota. These enhancements will make it even that much more of an economic engine.”

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The National Hockey Center has served the Huskies over the last 20 years, but the need for a renovation has been apparent.

John Frischmann, acting director of SCSU building and grounds, said that construction of renovations to the National Hockey Center will begin after the current hockey season. There will be two phases of construction; the first is the structural expansion and will begin at the end of the current season, ending before the next.

The second is bricklaying, placing glass and adding the final touches and will begin after next season. The whole renovation will give the National Hockey Center a completely different look and will be completed for the start of the 2012-13 hockey season.

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With Penn State creating a varsity hockey program, thanks to an $80 million gift from alumnus Terry Pegula, the talk of a Big Ten hockey conference is heating up.

The Big Ten hockey conference (six teams being the ‘magic number’ to qualify for an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament) would include Penn State, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), and Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State from the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA).

To state the obvious, this would completely shake-up the landscape of college hockey.

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