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Originally Posted by flameswin
Haha, you're going to use MLG and the Montreal forum as examples, eh? You mean two arenas that became outdated and outgrown by the teams and cities, so they built new arenas? aka exactly what's about to happen in Calgary with a new arena?  |
What I'm saying is that MLG and the forum are former palaces of hockey. Both of which have been replaced with cookie-cutter arenas with zero character.
Let's not do the exact same thing. I'm a fan of the term "home-field advantage" and the uniqueness it brings to sport. Example: The Green Monster at Fenway (before power hitters made it look like a small picket fence). I think the dome is a unique building in it's own intimate way. I don't know if any of you have been to the Palladium/Scotiabank Place/Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, but you feel (even on sold-out nights) that you're in this big open space of nothingness with a sheet of ice in the middle. The same could be said for a lot of cookie-cutter buildings. I for one, don't want to see that.