Loudest Arena? Quietest Arena?

[Torontonian]

Winnipeg and Smashvile will have the loudest arena.

 

[noncents]

Aren’t you guys still crying over a defenseman from 40 years ago?

every team has dumbass fans. i'm certainly not chanting about potvin.

you're the one insisting msg has a terrible atmosphere, even when there's plenty of evidence from media, players, posters in this thread to the contrary.

and btw i grew up on LI and loved the coliseums atmosphere. i think new yorkers just bring it.

 

[miscs75]

every team has dumbass fans. i'm certainly not chanting about potvin.

you're the one insisting msg has a terrible atmosphere, even when there's plenty of evidence from media, players, posters in this thread to the contrary.

and btw i grew up on LI and loved the coliseums atmosphere. i think new yorkers just bring it.

Compared to UBS/Nassau Coliseum, MSG isn’t even close for the playoffs. I never said it was terrible, I just said it doesn’t compare to what those 2 arenas offer in terms of a viewership aspect/crowd noise. Now if you want terrible, Barclays was dogtrash in terms of an arena. Location was terrible and sightlines suck.

 

[BS45]

You really haven’t been to all 3 have you. MSG reminds me of Barclays with the acoustics. UBS has a ceiling close to the same height as Nassau Coliseum. Nassau Coliseum was the loudest building I’ve ever been in (Shawn Bates game, the 2021 playoffs, Tavares GWG to beat Florida, the Pittsburgh series where Bylsma called a timeout since it was too loud for Fleury). MSG isn’t even loud when the NYPD and FNDY play in that sold out game, it’s honestly overrated.

My favorite team has the loudest arena by far. Your favorite team does not.

But is your favorite teams arena 1,000 times louder?? LMAO

Compared to UBS/Nassau Coliseum, MSG isn’t even close for the playoffs. I never said it was terrible, I just said it doesn’t compare to what those 2 arenas offer in terms of a viewership aspect/crowd noise. Now if you want terrible, Barclays was dogtrash in terms of an arena. Location was terrible and sightlines suck.

No, you said UBS was 1,000 times better. So for something to be 1,000 times better the alternative has to be terrible!

 

[miscs75]

But is your favorite teams arena 1,000 times louder?? LMAO


No, you said UBS was 1,000 times better. So for something to be 1,000 times better the alternative has to be terrible!

I’m glad you took it like that. MSG is still the most overrated arena I’ve been to when it comes to games. It’s pushed like it’s top in the league but all it has going for it is the accessibility via Penn Station.

 

[noncents]

I’m glad you took it like that. MSG is still the most overrated arena I’ve been to when it comes to games. It’s pushed like it’s top in the league but all it has going for it is the accessibility via Penn Station.

or consider that your islander bias has something to do with your perception of your rival teams stadium?

no.. it's everyone else that's wrong!

 

[miscs75]

or consider that your islander bias has something to do with your perception of your rival teams stadium?

no.. it's everyone else that's wrong!

Considering I found Columbus to be a more enjoyable experience as a fan while watching them play Philly 3 years ago over MSG, I guess that makes me bias but you not, noted.

 

[noncents]

Considering I found Columbus to be a more enjoyable experience as a fan while watching them play Philly 3 years ago over MSG, I guess that makes me bias but you not, noted.

My brother in christ you've just tried explain how you're not biased with an example of being biased. Also - I'm not saying anything about MSG. The only comment I've made about the Coliseum is that it's indeed loud and rowdy - this goes *against* my bias as a NYR fan.

I don't think you understand what bias is. You certainly struggle to use it in a sentence.



In any case I was underwhelmed when I went to see a Preds game in 2019. Was pretty dead in there.

My memory could be wonky though because what I really recall about that night was that I took a beautiful girl that Id asked out while she was working her job at the Ryman gift shop, and when she picked me up in her pickup she showed me her shotguns she kept loaded in the cab, plus the beer cans all over the floor.

 

[miscs75]

My brother in christ you've just tried explain how you're not biased with an example of being biased. Also - I'm not saying anything about MSG. The only comment I've made about the Coliseum is that it's indeed loud and rowdy - this goes *against* my bias as a NYR fan.

I don't think you understand what bias is. You certainly struggle to use it in a sentence.

In any case I was underwhelmed when I went to see a Preds game in 2019. Was pretty dead in there.

My memory could be wonky though because what I really recall about that night was that I took a beautiful girl that Id asked out while she was working her job at the Ryman gift shop, and when she picked me up in her pickup she showed me her shotguns she kept loaded in the cab, plus the beer cans all over the floor.

MSG however isn’t comparable in terms of a playoff atmosphere to UBS/Nassau Coliseum, especially in terms of noise. Acoustics of both are comparable due to dimensions and the arena itself is actually louder. That’s just always been the way it is.

 

[noncents]

MSG however isn’t comparable in terms of a playoff atmosphere to UBS/Nassau Coliseum, especially in terms of noise. Acoustics of both are comparable due to dimensions and the arena itself is actually louder. That’s just always been the way it is.

[in the style of a stubborn hockey fan who refuses to acknowledge their own bias]

"Nuh-uh!"

 

[TMLife17]

Quietest is Toronto it’s not even close either. Anyone claiming otherwise has probably only been to Toronto games.

 

[Metnut]

Loudest:

Edmonton
Vegas
Isles
Carolina

Quietest:

MSG
Tampa
Toronto
Dallas

 

[jumb0]

Bridgestone

 

[Ratsreign]

Is anyone posting here, qualified by way of actually going to a playoff game (preferably one where the home team won) in many buildings?

This is such a stupid thread, where everyone will extoll their own team's playoff atmosphere.

Pointless. We all know its the Centre Bell.

The TV broadcast can tamp down the crowd noise level, you can’t truly know without being there. Carolina seems crazy loud on TV.
I’ve only experienced playoff hockey in one arena, and I almost had the “after a concert” feeling in my ears after a game 1 in Sunrise vs the Bolts (their first playoff meeting). I couldn’t believe how loud it was in there.

 

[Kerberos]

Quietest arena has to be the ACC or Scotiabank or whatever they call it now without a doubt.

Toronto sports fans are notoriously fickle and the corporate crowd is about what you'd expect.

 

[TD Charlie]

Loudest:

Edmonton
Vegas
Isles
Carolina

Quietest:

MSG
Tampa
Toronto
Dallas

I'm sorry you put MSG in the quietest group?

Honestly, opinion invalidated. Shame

 

[westcoastpred]

Nashville's gonna surprise some of y'all. Bridgestone gets LOUD loud in the playoffs

 

[Ole Gil]

Carolina's secret is their fans were in the parking lot for 8 hours before the game getting absolutely blitzed.

 

[wavaxa2]

Nashville is disallowing ticket sales to out of towners, and they are usually a loud playoff building anyway, so I am going to go with them as being loudest.

 

[Nizami Ganjavi]

MSG tends to have a big "corporate" crowd, not surprisingly. Also, a lot of the seats don't have great sightlines for hockey. But you're in the middle of Manhattan, watching an original 6 team, in a famous building... Hard to screw up that atmosphere.

But it is top notch for concerts. Great sound. And when the floor starts shaking... oh yeah... groovin'...

Carolina's secret is their fans were in the parking lot for 8 hours before the game getting absolutely blitzed.

There's also a lot of buzz and chatter in that arena at all times. As fans are asking each other what icing means.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Carolina's secret is their fans were in the parking lot for 8 hours before the game getting absolutely blitzed.

Not gonna lie, there’s something to this.

 

[Derailed75]

Not gonna lie, there’s something to this.

I can't even imagine how loud a playoff game is. Last year when they staged the 3rd period comeback against the Sharks the place went absolutely nuts and was deafening and thats with people leaving cause they though the game was over when the Ducks scored the EN

 

[tarheelhockey]

I can't even imagine how loud a playoff game is. Last year when they staged the 3rd period comeback against the Sharks the place went absolutely nuts and was deafening and thats with people leaving cause they though the game was over when the Ducks scored the EN

Yeah, that was an absolutely crazy game. One of those special moments when the building has a bit of magic in the air afterwards.

Playoffs, it really starts with the pregame. The tailgating actually does make a difference in that it injects the most hardcore fans with liquid enthusiasm, and the production crew does a great job of firing them up to 11 before the puck drops. After that, it all depends on how the game goes.

 

[HajdukSplit]

MSG tends to have a big "corporate" crowd, not surprisingly. Also, a lot of the seats don't have great sightlines for hockey. But you're in the middle of Manhattan, watching an original 6 team, in a famous building... Hard to screw up that atmosphere.

Its still a good atmosphere for the playoffs, but I don't know how some of these people do it, I know its NYC and all and they have disposable income but even for regular season games the prices are crazy

 

[Panthers Propaganda]

Lol @ Florida

Man, some people really still think it’s like 2008. Place was packed last playoffs standing room only and that bitch was LOUD.

I’m not sure I would say *loudest* but I’d say we are up there.

My personal vote is PNC for loudest.

Toronto sounded like a morgue when we played them last year but maybe it was the broadcast audio.