Duke Guy, I was around for both, hell I was around when a rotary dial phone was state of the art technology. i was around for he original Frontenacs debuted in the EPHL in 1959.
The Memorial Centre was electrically charge by the fans, you could feel it in your bones, wall pounding, standing room board pound, fans voices, all manual sounds not by what is produced in the sterile new arenas of amplified sound of today. The M-Centre at 3379 was at 100% legal capacity and was probably more than that in there compared to the 72% capacity at the RKRC.