This post can be alternately titled -- "More people care about college hockey than preseason professional basketball."
We're a little late with this, but 6,370 fans showed up to watch the Penn State hockey team open its new home -- Pegula Ice Arena -- with a 4-1 win over Army last Friday night. (Second Army shoutout of the day on The Level, albeit for the wrong reasons.)
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By contrast, 6,315 filed into the Wells Fargo Center to watch the Sixers lose to the Nets, 127-97, on Monday. Your team! Your town! Your -- nevermind.
Anyway, we haven't had the chance to check it out yet, but PSU's new facility looks pretty cool, and we've got this time lapse from the opening night festivities:
And some other neat pictures of the arena:
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[h/t Ben Seidman]