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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
When I hear state of the art, I also hear the price of tickets are going to double.
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The whole arena is being designed to cater to the corporate crowd / loge seating / boxes and suites; that's where the revenue generation will come from and that is where the Saddledome is currently behind compared to all the new arenas across the league; Brian Burke directly confirmed this several years ago during the early arena development discussions. The design of Scotia Place will not primarily cater to regular game attendees like you and I in regular seats; we are, and have always been, a secondary priority in the design.
That said, that doesn't mean our sightlines or game day experience will be bad at all; just that we're not the main priority for revenue generation in the design of this facility. Of course, you can bet prices will definitely be going up across the board for everything, regardless of where you sit.