During the preseason, the team will play games at Gutterson Fieldhouse, the home ice of UVM Catamounts hockey. However, due to a lack of availability (between NCAA and ACHA play, both men and women, and the school's broomball intramurals, which are SERIOUS BUSINESS), the team had to find other digs during the regular season.
Champlain Athletic will play an entire regular season outdoors, as the team has set up shop at Centennial Field, home of the New York-Penn League's Vermont Lake Monsters.
Temporary bleachers will be set up to increase capacity from the 4,415 it holds for baseball to around 13,000, including a supporter's section for the Queen City Ultras, a recently-founded supporter's group that aims to give Champlain Athletic the best home ice advantage in the WHL.
Centennial Field is one of the oldest baseball stadiums in North America still in use, having been opened in 1906, and is believed to be the oldest to still host a professional team. However, it does have a hockey history, as the first UVM hockey game was played at Centennial while the Patrick-Forbush-Gutterson complex was under construction.
If the club makes the postseason, it's likely they'll have to go back to Gutterson due to weather; then again, it's a week until May right now and it's still snowing in BTV, so you never know.
The team has also announced an exclusive partnership with KHL side Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, due to the fact that the cities of Burlington and Yaroslavl are twin towns.
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