Belfast to host NCAA Friendship Four

[Shorty]

This could be pretty exciting:

UMass Lowell, Northeastern University, Brown University and Colgate University

It suggests there will be Elite League games as well that weekend, so it would not surprise me if its a Panthers double header.

[Yotes]

Sounds good, scheduling us would be wise too, whatever else we are we travel well.

Might even have to go myself if we were in town.

[chris111]

As a Giants fan I'm very excited about this, this is a massive deal to get something competitive like this. All the games count towards their leagues, so its not as if they will come over and play half hearted.

I suspect we wil work this as a hockey festival, stalls around the Odyssey. Its good that we also have EIHL hockey that weekend also. I think a lot of the funding for this has came from Belfast council, tourism, things like that. Lots of free tickets to be given out to school, students, so hopefully big crowds across the weekend.

This should open up the NA market for us a lot more, really puts our name on the Map, and keeps it out there since this is a 4 year deal (and more).

I also think one of the interviews with Robert Fitspatrick mentioned the possibility of getting players off the back of this, also mentioned it allows us to talk to the Bruins again about a possible return.

Lots of possibilities off the back of this, great work by the Odyssey trust, the Giants, Belfast council and tourism boards to get this off the ground.

[PantherG]

Get the fixtures published so I can see what we have planned that weekend, really fancy a trip over for this,

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If Panthers play a double header over in Belfast its not usually till well into the new year