MTS Centre upgrades

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... or TV and radio in the washrooms

 

[koth]

Maybe add crappers to the seats? That way you can go to the bathroom while watching the game from your seat. Would cut down on congestion in the concourse for sure. Might not be 100% socially acceptable, but I think we need to make this type of practice more socially accepted. Jets could be a model for the rest of the NHL and all major league sports facilities by starting this new trend. Make it happen TNSE!!

I wonder what that would cost in additional plumbing.

Or they could just put a trough under each row and just slope everything towards one big sewage drain.

 

[Kinjero]

http://jets.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=91590

Click on the sections on the seating map.

Beauty. Thanks!

 

[gbill2004*]

I wonder what that would cost in additional plumbing.

Or they could just put a trough under each row and just slope everything towards one big sewage drain.

Great idea!!

 

[enarwpg]

Great idea!!

Better still would be an additive to the beer that somehow prevents one from wanting to take a pee for at least 4 hours after the first sip so that you'd do your business at home.

Hopefully somewhere on the planet. a food supplement specialist is working on the additive as we speak.

 

[Yukon Joe]

Better still would be an additive to the beer that somehow prevents one from wanting to take a pee for at least 4 hours after the first sip so that you'd do your business at home.

Hopefully somewhere on the planet. a food supplement specialist is working on the additive as we speak.

Or they could stop selling beer at hockey games...

 

[SCP Guy]

Or they could stop selling beer at hockey games...

That kind of talk will get you banned around here

 

[Huffer]

Better still would be an additive to the beer that somehow prevents one from wanting to take a pee for at least 4 hours after the first sip so that you'd do your business at home.

Hopefully somewhere on the planet. a food supplement specialist is working on the additive as we speak.

Someone was working on an additive to put into beer that gave a person mind control over the drinker.

They had these guys play hockey (white vs black), and when the organist played different melodies, he could get the players to do different things (fight, etc).

Crazy documentary, I even think I saw a flying dog at one point......

Anyway, pretty sure it was a documentary, or some sort of security footage, because the video had a timecode you see, and those things are very hard to fake.

 

[buggs]

I'd kiss you but I've got puke breath.

 

[Gump Hasek]

Someone was working on an additive to put into beer that gave a person mind control over the drinker.

They had these guys play hockey (white vs black), and when the organist played different melodies, he could get the players to do different things (fight, etc).

Crazy documentary, I even think I saw a flying dog at one point......

Anyway, pretty sure it was a documentary, or some sort of security footage, because the video had a timecode you see, and those things are very hard to fake.

I think I saw that documentary...

 

[BigZ65]

Or they could stop selling beer at hockey games...

Selling it for $9.25 per 16 oz pretty much has that effect for me.

Rather have a Jet Dog.

 

[ajmidd12]

Not sure why people think the beer is junk, Kokanee and or Alexander Keiths for me is just fine. Though I do consider Bud absolutely junk.

Anyone notice the beer was more watered down than usual last night at the rink? My bro kept complaining about it.

 

[wpgsilver]

Not sure why people think the beer is junk, Kokanee and or Alexander Keiths for me is just fine. Though I do consider Bud absolutely junk.

Anyone notice the beer was more watered down than usual last night at the rink? My bro kept complaining about it.

Mine was just as "hoppy".
It was consistent over a couple beers

 

[DEANYOUNGBLOOD17]

How was the expanded concourse into the front Loby (atrium)?

 

[Vapour Trails]

How was the expanded concourse into the front Loby (atrium)?

It didn't seem like many people went there but the concourse on the upper deck was more open than usual. It's nice to be able to go somewhere to break away from the madness of the upper concourse.

As an aside, they cranked the prices on beer. Was the price of a jumbo not $8.25 last season? Now it's $9.25.

True North must be betting that the demand for beer is inelastic.

 

[KingBogo]

It didn't seem like many people went there but the concourse on the upper deck was more open than usual. It's nice to be able to go somewhere to break away from the madness of the upper concourse.

As an aside, they cranked the prices on beer. Was the price of a jumbo not $8.25 last season? Now it's $9.25.

True North must be betting that the demand for beer is inelastic.

I didn't know that. Last night I was driving so I didn't have any. $9.25 is getting pretty close to a point where a lot people will decide against having any. Of course the "frat boy guys" would likely spent $20 on a beer, so I guess it all balances out.

 

[blues10]

It didn't seem like many people went there but the concourse on the upper deck was more open than usual. It's nice to be able to go somewhere to break away from the madness of the upper concourse.

As an aside, they cranked the prices on beer. Was the price of a jumbo not $8.25 last season? Now it's $9.25.

True North must be betting that the demand for beer is inelastic.

the beer increae seems like a sin tax to make the beer drinkers pay for the upgrades. Come to think of it, the beer drinkers do use the washrooms the most. Perhaps coin operated urinals is the next step.

Honestly, 3-5 beers per game x 1.00 increase is not going to slow down sales and TNSE knows that. As long as the improvements continue everyone is happy.

What is the fan cost index for the Jets at MTSC? It must be near the top of the league.

 

[broinwhyteridge]

Price increases only hurt if you buy at those prices. Eat before you go and pre-load a bit (not if you are driving!) and this shouldn't matter.

 

[Soble]

Ive said it for two years now but please fix the glass in the upper deck. You know, the glass to save the ass of people who walk out of the concourse and out to the stands, it used to be caged and now is glass that you cant look through. We are second row upper deck and half of the far end is obscured by this crap, please put in see thru plexi glass. That is all I want Mr. Ludlow, everything else is perfectly fine!

Hear, hear! This is the only "must have" improvement in the upper bowl, IMO. We have rows 2 and 3 on the blueline - inside the blueline they are amazing seats. The other 2/3 of the ice, you have to duck and squint through the plexiglass, which is annoying especially with the thick black borders on the plexiglass which blocks even more. Also, not sure how to describe it but the plexiglass makes what you are viewing not horizontally aligned with what you see outside the glass (ie the image you see is 'raised') which makes it even more annoying.

Please find a solution, any solution, to this. Innovate. Make the glass moveable and a foot or two closer to the exit so it does not block the view - then the ushers push it out to its regular spot during intermission when there is more traffic; use thin clear borders instead of thick black borders; anything. Please!

 

[cbcwpg]

Hear, hear! This is the only "must have" improvement in the upper bowl, IMO. We have rows 2 and 3 on the blueline - inside the blueline they are amazing seats. The other 2/3 of the ice, you have to duck and squint through the plexiglass, which is annoying especially with the thick black borders on the plexiglass which blocks even more. Also, not sure how to describe it but the plexiglass makes what you are viewing not horizontally aligned with what you see outside the glass (ie the image you see is 'raised') which makes it even more annoying.

Please find a solution, any solution, to this. Innovate. Make the glass moveable and a foot or two closer to the exit so it does not block the view - then the ushers push it out to its regular spot during intermission when there is more traffic; use thin clear borders instead of thick black borders; anything. Please!

Different glass? I think the issue is just the luck ( or lack of luck ) as to the angle that you have to look thru it.

I have to look thru the plexiglass every time the puck is in the south east corner of the rink, but I can easily say this is a 100 times better than when I had to look thru the wire mesh they had there in year one. If the Jets brought the mesh back I would demand they try to sit me elsewhere.

 

[SCP Guy]

Must be the angle because from our seats the glass is 110 X better then the old black wire mesh they took out

 

[Soble]

Agree, the glass is better than the black wire they had for the first couple of months. But being row 2 on the aisle beside the glass, the glass takes up 2/3 of the ice surface (and like you mention, it’s at an angle). Is it too much to ask to have a clear view of the ice surface with nothing in the way? (yes I understand people at ice level have to look thru glass, and people behind the goals have to look through the netting)

 

[KingSalamon]

The plexi looks better than the metal mesh but honestly, I don't notice any difference. I guess that has something to do with being front row in the upper bowl.

 

[puck stoppa]

Agree, the glass is better than the black wire they had for the first couple of months. But being row 2 on the aisle beside the glass, the glass takes up 2/3 of the ice surface (and like you mention, it’s at an angle). Is it too much to ask to have a clear view of the ice surface with nothing in the way? (yes I understand people at ice level have to look thru glass, and people behind the goals have to look through the netting)

I am second row as well, and I can't see half of the far end unless it's through the skewed version through the glass. It has to go. It obstructs my view as bad as yours. The usher kept telling all last year that it would be replaced. She lied.

 

[Ober]

Just noticed on the MTS Centre website that under restaurants there is something called: Aviators Lounge (Coming Soon)

Anyone know anything about this?

How about anything new about any other upgrades that will be happening?

I recently (within the last three weeks or so) heard Scott Brown make a comment on TSN1290 Business Show (or whatever it is called) that there were more substantial things in the works but he was unable to make any further comments at this time.