Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins has said that he loved playing at the Met Centre as it had the best ice, lighting, and the most spacious dressing rooms of all the NHL teams at that time.
19 years on and it's still a parking lot which they may do something with at some point in the future. It was 9 years before Ikea went up and they could have kept the Met there if they had made the store about 10 feet narrower. "that's progress"
I was standing there with my friends behind a Police barrier when this happened. I think we skipped school that day. I do know we parked in the Mall Of America ramp and walked to a controlled intersection to watch. Thanks for posting!
Wouldn't have happened if they stayed. Rich oil man eventually bought the team and spent like crazy to get top players there. Of course they went broke in the end lol.
It was the fans the local fans' fault. The team had attendance problems throughout their history. The original owners almost folded the team in the late 70s. The next owners almost moved them to San Jose after the 89-90 season. Local news paper & 1 news channel did a poll asking people of they cared if the team moved. 60% said no. After their run to the finals in 91, attendance became a problem again and the third owner and the NHL had enough. That's the short version.
We watched from inside the Marriott Bloomington across the street, and it was not smoky and hard to see from there. You could tell immediately it was a demo fail.
I'm sorry but that's not progress when you destroy something that great... And metropolitan stadium was a beautiful stadium... That's why I don't go Mall of America
This was almost two decades ago. The GED program and IQ score have or are being revised as we speak. In general I find it annoying when people relate the past be it near or far to modern knowledge and culture. They are no longer comparable. They probably sounded "a little bit smarter" to the audience at the time.
Not 1 bad seat in that building for viewing hockey. Best ice as voted by the NHL players the year AFTER the North Stars moved to Dallas. The Met Center wasn't even on the list, the players wrote it in. Bobby Orr said the Met Center was the best rink he played in back in the 70s.
The old Met Center was the coolest looking rink with those multicolored seats. Looked even better than all other NHL rinks today in 2021.
Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins has said that he loved playing at the Met Centre as it had the best ice, lighting, and the most spacious dressing rooms of all the NHL teams at that time.
I walked everywhere in that building as a kid. The Memories its left me forever. ❤
19 years on and it's still a parking lot which they may do something with at some point in the future. It was 9 years before Ikea went up and they could have kept the Met there if they had made the store about 10 feet narrower. "that's progress"
My mom let me stay home from school in 3rd grade to watch this. I cried like a baby. Was very upset when the North Stars left.
this is titled wrong. met stadium was the twins stadium. met center was the north stars' arena
And that was the last time the camera man had a job in media. What's more important, the plunger or the explosion itself?
I was standing there with my friends behind a Police barrier when this happened. I think we skipped school that day. I do know we parked in the Mall Of America ramp and walked to a controlled intersection to watch. Thanks for posting!
I get the team left but why try to explode an arena and not have a development plan for the lot
At 3:50 you can hear the cheer go up from the crowd on the other side as we saw that it was still standing.
Met Center demo in near past, Mall of America in the near future (maybe they will let the scrapers take it down slowly like Detroit)
So now... why is it, that whenever a video like this is uploaded, there never seems to be a date mentioned in the description?
never went but looked like such a small stadium
Considering that its still a blank piece of land. This is a travesty.
This probably didn't go over to well in MN, 1998- 99 Stanley Cup Champion Dallas Stars
Never heard of them. Or the LA Lakers. Or the Herschel Walker trade. 🤣
Wouldn't have happened if they stayed. Rich oil man eventually bought the team and spent like crazy to get top players there.
Of course they went broke in the end lol.
I'm not sure why UA-cam and Google want to change history 1994 1994 not 2011
Did anyone died?
Home plates in nickelodeon universe next to the pesie orange steak and spongbob ride
That's Met Stadium. The video is the Met Center. Home of the North Stars. The title was wrong.
the Xcel Energy Center is a worthy successor...
More than worthy
So what's in the Met Center's place?
CelesteK parking lot, for mall of America
Home of the Minnesota Strikers! This demo went wrong.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the three "commentators" should've sounded just a little bit smarter throughout this piece?
It is the morning show. 20+ years later, the studio announcers are still the same.
Sadly, nothing. Just an pointless overflow parking lot for the MOA. Maybe some of Ikea, but mostly a run down lot.
I cherish having the Stars in Dallas but still, they should still be in Minnesota. The actions that took them from Minnesota were utter BS.
It was the fans the local fans' fault. The team had attendance problems throughout their history. The original owners almost folded the team in the late 70s. The next owners almost moved them to San Jose after the 89-90 season. Local news paper & 1 news channel did a poll asking people of they cared if the team moved. 60% said no. After their run to the finals in 91, attendance became a problem again and the third owner and the NHL had enough.
That's the short version.
@@danbratten3103 and a lot of people forget that. Most of it was blaming Norm Green.
We watched from inside the Marriott Bloomington across the street, and it was not smoky and hard to see from there. You could tell immediately it was a demo fail.
Only in Mini-soda.
I'm sorry but that's not progress when you destroy something that great... And metropolitan stadium was a beautiful stadium... That's why I don't go Mall of America
Neither do I , to damn big, my legs/ knees can't handle it to painful
Metropolitan Stadium was falling apart in its last season ( 1981) I was at the last Vikings game
Part of the site is an overflow parking lot for the Mall of America and the other part of the site is an IKEA store.
This was almost two decades ago. The GED program and IQ score have or are being revised as we speak. In general I find it annoying when people relate the past be it near or far to modern knowledge and culture. They are no longer comparable. They probably sounded "a little bit smarter" to the audience at the time.
This was so 1990's
30 years ago in 2024 now
This is Morning Show at its best...
Got to get that IKEA in there! But this stadium was hardly a gem.
Both of them, arena and stadium, which was demolished in 1985
Not 1 bad seat in that building for viewing hockey. Best ice as voted by the NHL players the year AFTER the North Stars moved to Dallas. The Met Center wasn't even on the list, the players wrote it in. Bobby Orr said the Met Center was the best rink he played in back in the 70s.
DALLAS STARS
☆Super stars2014♡ fuck Dallas
@@dquaid666 You mean Les Nouveaux Quebec Nordiques.