[News] Oilers to host Flames in 2023 Heritage Classic at Commonwealth

[jatylo]

Originally Posted by YYCSledge

any season ticket holders not buying tickets and willing to share their presale code? please pm me

I'll DM you my code. I won't be going

[memphusk]

I would like to attend but can't stop thinking that some Oiler fan will try to spit in my mouth and for those reasons I'm out. Plus like I said earlier, Commonwealth is an absolute ####hole in a ####hole neighborhood. I hope to of hurt some feelings.

[YYCSledge]

Originally Posted by jatylo

I'll DM you my code. I won't be going

Grabbed 4. Thanks for the code!

[Yeah_Baby]

If anyone else also has a code, please DM me.

[dustygoon]

Originally Posted by getbak

I assume it will be set up similar to 2003, with temporary bleachers at the end of the rink and no end zone seating.

I would never pay money to see something like that. I don't get it. What a dump.

[dustygoon]

Different facility obviously (Sharks vs LA at Levi's), but can they not at least try and fill in the area around the rink?

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

If anyone else also has a code, please DM me.

I'll send you mine, I don't plan on going.

[Scoopdogg]

Anyone else have a code they are willing to share if you don't plan on going to the game?

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by dustygoon

Different facility obviously (Sharks vs LA at Levi's), but can they not at least try and fill in the area around the rink?

fwiw that's more what I expect now. The first one wasn't quite the league event that it's become now.

[the-rasta-masta]

Just saw these mockups for the Heritage Classic Jerseys. The Oilers is obviously no good, but the Flames with the off white colour looks real nice. Nice touches on the inside collar for both teams paying tribute to the first battle of Alberta game held between the Calgary Fire Brigade and the Edmonton Thistles in 1895.

[jayswin]

nm

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by getbak

I assume it will be set up similar to 2003, with temporary bleachers at the end of the rink and no end zone seating.

Yikes, Commonwealth is just awful for a hockey game. Football stadiums are already not great for watching hockey, but they have an extra massive running track around the outside, making things way worse.

Like just look at those fans, you're a hundred miles away and couldn't possibly have any sort read on the game other than seeing players batting a puck around in the distance.

[Bandwagon Surfer]

Originally Posted by Draug

Is Ticketmaster changing the prices on the fly? I could've sworn that section U, around row 25 to 30, was $474 per seat this morning at 10am. Now it's showing $624 per seat???

Maybe I had a second section selected and didn't realize it.

Sweet sky daddy those are over the top. That same money would buy a pretty amazing night out on the town.

For under the cost of just two tickets, I bet I could take my wife out to a top restaurant, then watch the game at a place with big screen and people waiting on me, and stay at a hotel for some end of the night fun.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Yikes, Commonwealth is just awful for a hockey game. Football stadiums are already not great for watching hockey, but they have an extra massive running track around the outside, making things way worse.

Like just look at those fans, you're a hundred miles away and couldn't possibly have any sort read on the game other than seeing players batting a puck around in the distance.

Always made me wonder why they made big stadiums with running tracks back in the day.

Who the #### goes to watch track events? You got big crowds for football, why not build football specific stadiums. So stupid.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Always made me wonder why they made big stadiums with running tracks back in the day.

Who the #### goes to watch track events? You got big crowds for football, why not build football specific stadiums. So stupid.

That particular stadium was built for the Commonwealth Games in 1978, so it needed a track.

[browna]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

That particular stadium was built for the Commonwealth Games in 1978, so it needed a track.

Related to the stadium these two never get old, from the 2001 World Track Championships...first the article that sets off a firestorm in Edmonton for cutting down the sacred city of champions label, followed up by the tounge in cheek apology that the mouth breathers demanded.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...mes-alive.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.259335

"Visually unappealing corner of Canada"

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by browna

These two never get old, from the 3001 World Track Championships...first the article that sets off a firestorm in Edmonton for cutting down the sacred city of champions label, followed up by the tounge in cheek apology that the mouth breathers demanded.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...mes-alive.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.259335

"What puzzles this observer is that if Edmontonians are so confident about their city's greatness, why do they give a monkey's about what some visiting hack might think? But they do."

[InglewoodFan]

Just got a code as a Roughnecks STH. Mostly upper deck seats available.

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[Mass_nerder]

Originally Posted by dustygoon

Different facility obviously (Sharks vs LA at Levi's), but can they not at least try and fill in the area around the rink?

Fill it with what though?
You can't have seats there because they would be at ice level all the way back until you get to the actual stadium seats.

[Yeah_Baby]

Sorry for the bump but, any speculation about when we'll be getting the jerseys released. Training camp?