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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The Omsk arena is only 10-years-old and already unsafe? What the hell?
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It opened in 2007, so I guess 11 years.
It's hard to find details about it because most of the stories are in Russian and Google Translate doesn't do a great job with Russian to English. From what I can tell, in late-July, inspectors discovered serious structural issues with the building and deemed it unsafe for either the team or fans to be in the building.
I'm unclear if the problems were caused by renovations that were being carried out, or if the renovations were being done to try to fix the problems that were already there. Either way, it was determined that the arena won't be cleared in time for the season, so Avangard will play their home games in a small arena outside Moscow, over 2000 km away from Omsk.
What's weird is that their old arena is Omsk seems to still be operational and isn't much smaller than the arena they'll be playing out of in Moscow. You'd think it would have made more sense to play there.