i'll always remember the urinal troughs.
oh and I managed to score a goal there once.
Urinal troughs. I remember them. Haven't used one in two weeks (Mexico City airport).i'll always remember the urinal troughs.
oh and I managed to score a goal there once.
Urinal troughs. I remember them. Haven't used one in two weeks (Mexico City airport).
The old Chicago Stadium was the only original six arena I never got to. I actually skated in the Mutual Street Arena, where the Leafs played before the Gardens was built - but long after.
Were the urinal troughs a cost cutting measure from the Ballard years?
They predated Ballard by a long shot.Were the urinal troughs a cost cutting measure from the Ballard years?
I never got to see a game there, but I do remember watching that last game. Disappointing it was a loss to the Hawks. At least they won their first game in their new home.
I was in the Gardens one game, and my seat was right where the high glass ends, at the end of the second row of rails. At one point, there was a photographer standing beside me, with a real fancy camera, shooting the action. The defenceman on the far side, Salming, shot the puck, and it missed the net, banged around the glass, and came out right where I was sitting. I grabbed it, and the impact knocked my hand back into the guy's camera. Just a light bump, but he was just about to explode at me, when he saw the puck in my hand, and realized I'd probably saved his camera.My first live Leafs game was at MLG. I remember needing to pinch myself several times. They were playing the Wings and won, I think it was 3-1. Odd thing I remember that happened at that game was, I had never heard a rink announcer come over the PA before puck drop to "explain" the game of hockey briefly and warn fans to always follow the action due to the risk of flying pucks into the stands.
I thought "cool" good idea. So you know not 2-3 minutes into the game, a puck goes flying, hits a woman and she needs to be taken out on a stretcher.
I have a program from the last game at the Gardens and the first at the ACC. When I was younger my family was in a pool that split tickets and that year we got a top 2pick. We got the first ACC game which I went to with my dad. My mom entered us into a contest through a local newspaper (I think the Star), and won tickets, so he also got to go to the last game. The programs are still somewhere at my parents house.I didn't go to the game but a few years later I was at a sports memorabilia store in Woodbridge called Frozen Pond and they were selling programs from the final game and I purchased one, which I still have in my collection today.
Terrible building. Corridors are too small and the place has no character.I've always missed having a building with character. SBA is like a McDonald's of sports arenas.