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Originally Posted by Muta
'Iconic' isn't limited to NHL arenas only, but to answer your question, I believe T-Mobile Arena, Barclays Center (when the Isles played there), the new Climate Pledge Arena and the Saddledome have distinct (iconic) structures. They definitely differ from the traditional arena mould. That's just my opinion though.
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I think distinct, iconic, and actually visually appealling can be very different things though.
Barclay's looks a lot better in it's initial staged photos than it does in person. I've been there a couple times and never came way impressed thinking "Woah that's a nice looking building". And the inside of that building was very bland IMO.
I've never been to T-Mobile and agree that it's more unique, and does a good job in leveraging it's LED boards, but really it's still just a round stadium. Not sure it's really that unique.
The Saddledome is only really unique in that it's old and the standard it was built under is no longer used, but the "Saddle" shape was a staple of other buildings that were built during that time period.
And will be interesting to see what the Climate Pledge arena looks like, but yeah that one is keeping the Key Arena's unique shape.