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CKJohn

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castle said:
People are trying to compare fan loudness based on TV broadcasts? Seems like a crazy notion to me.

maybe you can comment on consistency, but trying to compare peak volumes when mic placement and sound mix affect the broadcast seems a bit silly.
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Don't forget that 99% of the opinions based on how loud an arena is on here is from TV.

However, Mic placement is definitively something to look at but compare the sound the crowd makes for a hit/scoring chance/goal. I highly doubt they are going to turn the mic for the crowd up and down based on what happens during the play. Right after a goal i can see, but not for a scoring chance.

There was a major difference in standing noise of the crowd compared to scoring chances and hard hits, which there normally is.

Now compare that to Ottawa last night. The crowd was excited. Boo'd Subban every time he touched the puck. They were also loud anytime the puck was in Montreal's end.
 
TheDeuce

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castle said:
People are trying to compare fan loudness based on TV broadcasts? Seems like a crazy notion to me.

maybe you can comment on consistency, but trying to compare peak volumes when mic placement and sound mix affect the broadcast seems a bit silly.
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Microphone placement aside here's a metric I can share from game 3 at MTS:

When I plugged my ears as best I could I could feel the noise throughout my body. Apparently my spleen has ears. Don't know how that measures up across the league but if other fans in other barns give it a go I'd want to hear their findings.

Another test - using my scuba photography technique of non-hold breath holding. When lining up a shot underwater I try to be neither inhaling nor exhaling but holding your breath while diving is verboten. So there's a technique where you lock your lungs with your esophagus open so your air volume is static but the airway is open.

Do that exercise during peak noise at MTS and you get this weird tickling in your lungs - enough to make me cough. Another oddball metric for other barns to try.

Sadly, for the rest of the playoffs the MTS Centre will be the quietest arena. AINEC. :(




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FirewagonChange

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The Joe has been rocking these past two games.

Washington wins for quietest arena. I remember Wash used to be so loud.
 
Hab 4 Life

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swiftwin said:
lolumad?

What happened to Habs fans invading CTC?
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Well I was there for game 3 and there were several thousand Habs fans there. It wasn't completely invaded due to your team's policy of not allowing Montrealers to buy tickets. I had to pay 3 times face value which many may not be ready to pay. So yeah, be proud Ottawa.....
 
SirQuacksALot

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Drake744 said:
Winnipeg, Islanders and Nashville have 3 of the 4 smallest buildings in the league. They're also some of the loudest. Has to be a little correlation there.
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They also have, from what I can tell, lower ceilings than most buildings, which affects the acoustics.
 
Canadian91

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Hab 4 Life said:
Well I was there for game 3 and there were several thousand Habs fans there. It wasn't completely invaded due to your team's policy of not allowing Montrealers to buy tickets. I had to pay 3 times face value which many may not be ready to pay. So yeah, be proud Ottawa.....
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ottawa said:
Sens have an anti-hab policy...I live in the Ottawa region so I got to go to the game and I saw several ushers escorting at least 10-20 habs fans out (sens/habs fans arguing all night)
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Here come the excuses.

If anything, there's more Habs fans for this series than there were in 2013. And there was no ticket policy in effect that year. Montreal fans can still buy Sens tickets on StubHub, I have family that came down from Montreal for game 3. They had no problems buying tickets near face value.

Let's put these bogus excuses to rest. There are less Montreal fans because it's the playoffs, and Senators fans want to be at the game.
 
BonMorrison

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Joe's definitely a surprise, I don't remember it being that loud the last few years.

Love all the singing especially "My Own Worst Enemy".
 
PK Cronin

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Jedgi said:
Huh...

https://twitter.com/TedStarkey/status/591416089558573057

https://twitter.com/TedStarkey/status/590708031446511617
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That's not very loud.

I've also been in the arena before and it's pretty quiet when that horn isn't going off during play. They have a decibel meter in the corner that would just randomly spike up while I was there as well, even though there was no crowd noise.

Their "We are louder!" chants were followed by silence tonight.




For me, if you need to be prompted to get loud, via scoreboard or air horn, then your arena just isn't that great of an atmosphere (this goes for any team).
 
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Canadian91 said:
Here come the excuses.

If anything, there's more Habs fans for this series than there were in 2013. And there was no ticket policy in effect that year. Montreal fans can still buy Sens tickets on StubHub, I have family that came down from Montreal for game 3. They had no problems buying tickets near face value.

Let's put these bogus excuses to rest. There are less Montreal fans because it's the playoffs, and Senators fans want to be at the game.
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I went to both games in 2013 and habs fans were well represented this year, a little less to the one game I went to this year (game 3).
 
Jedgi

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PK Cronin said:
That's not very loud.

I've also been in the arena before and it's pretty quiet when that horn isn't going off during play. They have a decibel meter in the corner that would just randomly spike up while I was there as well, even though there was no crowd noise.

Their "We are louder!" chants were followed by silence tonight.




For me, if you need to be prompted to get loud, via scoreboard or air horn, then your arena just isn't that great of an atmosphere (this goes for any team).
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Not very loud is relative. I'd say having points in time where sustained exposure to the level of sound is unsafe is pretty loud (above 90 dB). Also, post was in response to saying Washington was quietest when the sound comparisons were very similar to Nassau, which is known to be loud.
 
Zoidberg Jesus

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PK Cronin said:
That's not very loud.

I've also been in the arena before and it's pretty quiet when that horn isn't going off during play. They have a decibel meter in the corner that would just randomly spike up while I was there as well, even though there was no crowd noise.

Their "We are louder!" chants were followed by silence tonight.




For me, if you need to be prompted to get loud, via scoreboard or air horn, then your arena just isn't that great of an atmosphere (this goes for any team).
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FWIW, that's not an air horn at Caps games, it's a guy with an actual horn. And as someone who was at tonight's game, the vast majority of the chants and cheering were organic.
 
Blitzkrieg365

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I don't know how well it translates through the TV, but I've been to a Caps playoffs game and it is deafening when they score.
 
swiftwin

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Hab 4 Life said:
Well I was there for game 3 and there were several thousand Habs fans there. It wasn't completely invaded due to your team's policy of not allowing Montrealers to buy tickets. I had to pay 3 times face value which many may not be ready to pay. So yeah, be proud Ottawa.....
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Why didn't you just buy tickets for the games in Montreal? The games in Ottawa sold out much quicker. Would have been much easier and cheaper to just get them on Montreal.
 
Sensored

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Hab 4 Life said:
Well I was there for game 3 and there were several thousand Habs fans there. It wasn't completely invaded due to your team's policy of not allowing Montrealers to buy tickets. I had to pay 3 times face value which many may not be ready to pay. So yeah, be proud Ottawa.....
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I was at game 3 as well. I'd say 75-25 split which would mean about 5k Hab fans. Considering the factors for this series:

- Montréal and Ottawa fans had access to Sens tickets on the same day
- Montréal is twice the size of Ottawa
- Montréal has more fans due to 100 year history
- Montréal is only 2 hours away
- Montréal has a significant amount of fans within Ottawa region. Especially in Gatineau.

I think Ottawa fans have done quite well, I was happy with the fan splits in 2013 and in 2015.

Game 3 was actually pretty funny, there was like 200 - 300 Hab fans making a whole bunch of noise prior to the game. I think they were under the impression that they were going to take over the building. Just prior to the anthems starting they learned really quick they were the minority :)
 
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