Worship for College Hockey's 'Cathedrals'

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Sports Illustrated once called the Dane County Coliseum - the off-campus cookie-cutter arena where the University of Wisconsin once skated - "the Montreal Forum of college hockey." That was 30 years ago. Today, college hockey's stature has ascended to the point where The Wall Street Journal recently described certain home arenas as "the cathedrals of sports," while categorizing their individual claims to fame.

The Kohl Center, the on-campus venue where Wisconsin currently plays, gets the WSJ nod as "most intimidating" on the strength of the Badgers' perennial perch atop the national attendance rankings. Doubling as a basketball arena (something the Coliseum was rarely called on to do), the Kohl Center is also characterized by WSJ writers Darren Everson and Hannah Karp as "a bit soulless."

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