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Originally Posted by blankall
Am I the only one who thinks the whole having a nice dressing room thing is overblown. There must be something to the players abandoning their images of themselves as celebrity millionaires. They should feel like they are Junior A players fighting for their careers.
For practical purposes, they are building a new stadium. I can't see them putting huge amounts of money into the Saddledome.
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Yeah, when people were freaking out over the Flames' room after the video of Weegar taking the tour went out, I looked up photos of the various dressing rooms around the league.
These were the last three teams to win the Cup at that time...
And here's last year's champs in glitzy glamourous Las Vegas...
None of these are massively better than the Flames' room. Tampa and Washington both have low ceilings like the Flames, which isn't something that can really be fixed without rebuilding. Fortunately, the Flames are building a new rink, so the deficiencies will be fixed, but they're not going to do much more to the Saddledome at this point.
It is interesting to see they have made some changes even from last season. Here's a photo from last year...
They have put wood panelling over the cinder blocks on the walls and replaced the red carpet with black.