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yeah i've been to that arena many years ago i liked the location a lot. team goes from the burbs to the city to wanting to go back to semi burbs?
so this building is 27 years old prudential is 17 so expecting major updating talk in similar 10 years?
No chance
There could be some kind of renovation to the bulding in the next 10, 15, 20 years, but I don't think there will be a new arena.
There's not really much talk replacing any of the 90s buildings in the NHL in current time. I've never heard any talks about replacing the building in Philly, which is over 10 years older than Prudential Center.
Vancouver and Toronto have both gotta be from the mid to late 90s. Same with whatever they call the building in LA these days.
And then you got the San Jose and Anaheim buildings from about 93 or so. Tampa's building is also late 90s, same with the Panthers building. United Center in Chicago has gotta be coming up on 30 years, same with the current Garden in Boston.
Most of the league's current buildings are from between the early 90s onward, other than MSG, which had a major renovation just over a decade ago. And also Calgary from the early 80s, but the talk of replacing that has been going for a long time and I think they're supposed to get a new building before the decade ends.
The only other building I constantly hear talk of replacing is the one in Ottawa, but that's because of location more than anything to do with the shape of the building.