[News] "Scotia Place" ground breaking and design release on July 22 1pm MT

[Royle9]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Are they moving the Sportsnet scoreboard to the new arena?

Nope, they are not.

[Mr_Pilot]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Are they moving the Sportsnet scoreboard to the new arena?

They are not. Will be a totally new one for the new rink.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

If you google arena names in Canada, it was going to be Centre, Place, or Arena.

Real creative names.

Oh well.

That's certainly not a Canada-only thing. Currently, in the NHL there are: 13 Centers/Centres, 15 Arenas, 2 Gardens, 1 Place (soon to be 2), 1 Saddledome (soon to be 0).

In the NBA, there are 17 Centers, 6 Arenas, 2 Gardens, 2 Forums, 2 Fieldhouses, and 1 Dome.


I have been to multiple cities in Europe with O2 Arenas.

[Freeway]

Groundbreaking/design reveal at 1.

[sureLoss]

Event Centre Comitted meeting Adjourned.

1pm Ground breaking and design reveal

[getbak]

Announced at the end of the Committee meeting: The public reveal will be from 1-2 pm at the corner of 14th Ave and 4th Street.

[FlameyMcFlameFace]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Event Centre Comitted meeting Adjourned.

1pm Ground breaking and design reveal

EDIT: Here is the stream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/i106WEg...MK3qmjpaKradHc

[FlamesAreOne]

Scotia Place? Eww.

[Robbob]

I guess when a bank (or any sponsor) throws a bunch of many at you for the naming rights, you can't be too picky on what they decide to go with.

[Ba'alzamon]

At least it's not Rogers.

[Toonage]

If they wanted to pay off my mortgage I'd legally change my name to Scotia Place. Just saying.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by getbak

That's certainly not a Canada-only thing. Currently, in the NHL there are: 13 Centers/Centres, 15 Arenas, 2 Gardens, 1 Place (soon to be 2), 1 Saddledome (soon to be 0).

In the NBA, there are 17 Centers, 6 Arenas, 2 Gardens, 2 Forums, 2 Fieldhouses, and 1 Dome.


I have been to multiple cities in Europe with O2 Arenas.

So the 2 Places will be in Alberta. Wonder if the UCP had any say in the that?

Vancouver has Arena, Edmonton PLace, we would have went with Center but they all suck.

[FlamesAreOne]

I'm so sick of seeing Scotia this and that. I wish Telus jumped on this and it was the Telus Dome or something.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Vancouver has Arena, Edmonton PLace, we would have went with Center but they all suck.

Rogers Centre is what no one calls SkyDome.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by getbak

Rogers Centre is what no one calls SkyDome.

Even the Blue Jays broadcast (on Rogers Sportsnet) just calls it "the ballpark" at least half the time.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by getbak

That's certainly not a Canada-only thing. Currently, in the NHL there are: 13 Centers/Centres, 15 Arenas, 2 Gardens, 1 Place (soon to be 2), 1 Saddledome (soon to be 0).

In the NBA, there are 17 Centers, 6 Arenas, 2 Gardens, 2 Forums, 2 Fieldhouses, and 1 Dome.


I have been to multiple cities in Europe with O2 Arenas.

Ours should be the first CO2 Arena.

[Muta]

Call it the Trudome just to make it a lightning rod of branding potential and local controversy

[metroneck]

As a born and raised Calgarian, I’ll be the first to say the ‘Western Heritage’ thing is overplayed, but I think it would have been better to be name the building the ‘sponsor’ Corral, or even the ‘sponsor’ Dome.

Corral may be a bit cheesy, but it really hits the mark.

Heck, even Barn is better than Place.

[howard_the_duck]

I personally find corral a bit hokey. This name is meh but fine. The most attention it will ever get is right now.

[mogg]

Pretty sure these arena names are deliberately generic. Were it named something unique like the ‘Scotia Corral’ people would just call it ‘The Corral.’ This forces their branding into our mouths.