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Originally Posted by Beatle17
I think both the California Golden Seals and the Flyers had to use temporary rinks also. I know the roof blew off the Flyers arena one season early after the Spectrum was built.
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True enough. I was specifically thinking of situations where an NHL team actually got kicked out of its arena when the lease was up, and that was the latest one I could come up with.
By the way, I've done some reading up on arena disasters as part of a side project. Did you know there were actually several new arenas whose roofs collapsed or fell apart within a few years in the 1970s?
CAD software was a pretty new thing at that time, and apparently the principal vendor coded the material stress formulas wrong. Pretty much every large building designed with that software had to have its roof rebuilt at ludicrous expense. Oops.