Future Regional/FF locations and hosts...
2024
| Round | City | Venue | Host School | |
| Reg | Maryland Heights, Mo. | Centene Community Ice Center | Lindenwood University | |
| Reg | Providence, R.I. | Dunkin' Donuts Center | Brown University | |
| Reg | Sioux Falls, S.D. | Denny Sanford Premier Center | Omaha | |
| Reg | Springfield, Mass. | MassMutual Center | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |
| FF | St. Paul, Minn. | Xcel Energy Center | Minnesota |
2025
| Round | City | Venue | Host School | |
| Reg | Allentown, Pa. | PPL Center | Penn State | |
| Reg | Fargo, N.D. | Scheels Arena | North Dakota | |
| Reg | Toledo, Ohio | Huntington Center | Bowling Green | |
| Reg | Manchester, N.H. | SNHU Arena | New Hampshire | |
| FF | St. Louis | Enterprise Center | Vermont |
2026
| Round | City | Venue | Host School | |
| Reg | Albany, N.Y. | MVP Arena | Union | |
| Reg | Loveland, Colo. | Budweiser Events Center | Denver | |
| Reg | Sioux Falls, S.D. | Denny Sanford Premier Center | Omaha | |
| Reg | Worcester, Mass. | DCU Center | Holy Cross | |
| FF | Las Vegas | T-Mobile Arena | North Dakota |
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The next 3 Frozen Fours in St. Paul, St. Louis and Vegas. Vegas is going to be interesting on attendance. You might see big crowds going without tickets and do Vegas and watch the games from a sportsbook room or bar. Very similar, but at a way smaller level then opening round of the NCAA's. Which I've done several times and is a blast. Tops Super Bowl weekend in Vegas hands down.
Keep your stick on the ice...
The figure I’ve seen is 5700 though idk what modifications they did after taking out the ice.If only the Coliseum still had ice…
Edit: someone already said this oops
The Coliseum wasn't the best place for hockey. Though it would be good for hosting crowds. Had to seat well over 4,000.
And yeah I get why having home team host regionals might be difficult because of travel arrangements and everything else but they already to it for the big ten tourney so surely it’s not impossible.
And to Steve’s point it is pretty ridic that MN has as many rinks as it does but somehow none qualify for every reason under the sun. Sure other states could technically do it but that’s not really the point, if regionals struggle to draw attendance then it’s kinda pointless to require 5000 seats especially when the venues like the X (I assume this would be the same in other states) won’t bid because they’d rather host a concert or what have you. Yes college hockey is niche we all know that and yet the NCAA insists on setting a floor on number of seats required.
i'd be all for smaller rinks that are packed to the gills. and personally I think the hosting at the 1 seed (for each regional) makes the most sense. They earned the right. If you don't like it, win your games. Yeah it will suck the years you finish as a 2, but you deserve to have an advantage when you are one of the best teams. From a logistical standpoint, I can't see how extending the season one week in the hosting rinks ends up being much of an issue. Teams travel to wherever they end up at the drop of a hat anyway, so the argument of travel doesn't make sense to me either.
I doubt you would of it was your money on the line...
the obligatory cost is 100K. If you could host it on campus (the essence of my point and advocating for smaller arenas, much like is the case for most colleges), you would easily make that. I also think your odds of selling out/increasing demand go up with the smaller venue. Why the NCAA picked this size, I don't really know but would be interested to hear if you happen to.
I dont think you would easily make that at a lot of arenas not to mention there is more cost to it than that anyways.
Way back in the day ('81-'88) when the tourney was 8 teams, the first round was at the higher seeds home rink and it was a 2 game total goal situation. Made for some crazy qualifying games... Then it went to 12 teams, hosted at the highest seed for the first two rounds. For 1992, the NCAA thought they could make money out of the deal and had 6 team East/West regionals. That lasted until 2003 when they moved to the current format.
I don't remember the timing when they NCAA made the rule about home barns or on campus sights, but it was within the last 10 years.
Top of my head it would be around 2010...but I have done zero research.
Future Regional/FF locations and hosts...
2024
Round City Venue Host School Reg Maryland Heights, Mo. Centene Community Ice Center Lindenwood University Reg Providence, R.I. Dunkin' Donuts Center Brown University Reg Sioux Falls, S.D. Denny Sanford Premier Center Omaha Reg Springfield, Mass. MassMutual Center University of Massachusetts, Amherst FF St. Paul, Minn. Xcel Energy Center Minnesota
2025
Round City Venue Host School Reg Allentown, Pa. PPL Center Penn State Reg Fargo, N.D. Scheels Arena North Dakota Reg Toledo, Ohio Huntington Center Bowling Green Reg Manchester, N.H. SNHU Arena New Hampshire FF St. Louis Enterprise Center Vermont
2026
Round City Venue Host School Reg Albany, N.Y. MVP Arena Union Reg Loveland, Colo. Budweiser Events Center Denver Reg Sioux Falls, S.D. Denny Sanford Premier Center Omaha Reg Worcester, Mass. DCU Center Holy Cross FF Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena North Dakota
On the plus side of the 12 regional locations during these 3 post-seasons, 6 of them are western if you consider Ohio as the west.