The Komets frequently sell out games in Fort Wayne, even when they are not doing good, so the seating is adequate and there are talks of expanding again. Great video!
The Komets have quite a legacy that dates back to the IHL days of the early 1950s. It’s a testament to their fans that they’ve supported the team throughout the decades and leagues!
I think he’s talking about the $1B downtown improvement proposal that includes a new arena. It was initially a smaller arena but there was talk of expanding the capacity.
The North Charleston Coliseum is such a great place to see a hockey game. Granted I am biased, I grew up seeing hockey games, wrestling shows and had my high school graduation there
The ECHL is a great fun league!! Prices for games are very reasonable plus the quality of play is pretty good. A good family atmosphere! Just like most minor league sports venues!
Some friends and I drove down to a Nailers game years ago from Pittsburgh, and man, did we have fun. Not quite Pens hockey, but we had a blast. Hockey is so underrated.
@robertdiez3091 ya, it's basically baby pens, too, but not quite NHL talent. Honestly, I like that better. These guys are working their butts off to get a chance to play in the NHL, and I respect that grind.
@@VIPER0308 as a Caps fan I'm lucky to to see each level from growing up in central pa having Bears an Caps game then moved south an watch Rays games. An watched a lot of junior hockey that ive noticed at lower levels you notice a player reads the game bit faster than everyone else or passes a bit cleaner will get called up.
@robertdiez3091 I also saw a Bears game. Also, it was a fun time. I'd like to see a Scranton Pens game someday, too. I only ever played rec dek in high school. Was a blast to play. Made me appreciate the young guns who refine their game as they move up the ladder.
@@VIPER0308 Their were a few players I saw at the bears before they got moved to St Louis then quickly got a spot on the NHL team an got a cup within a year or two. I saw Vanachek in person he is huge wall in goal an made crazy saves wish the Cap kept him. The goalie grouping for at least three years were strong NHL to ECHL guys getting called up so fast one bad game back down shut everything down again an go back up.
I worked at the arena here in Victoria when we had the Salmon Kings in the ECHL. In stereotypical ECHL action, there was a fight 3 seconds into a game.
13:07 Wesbanco Arena (then known as the Wheeling Civic Center) was designed around a basketball court rather than an ice rink, in part because it was to serve as the home for Wheeling (Jesuit) College basketball, although they moved back on-campus after a couple of seasons. Even with the floor-level seats pushed back, the ice rink is only 185 feet long instead of NHL-regulation 200 feet, with the shortage taken out of the center neutral ice area. That creates some interesting tactical challenges for game planning as well as roster composition.
Tell you what, the game is a lot more physical on the short ice. What I was thinking to make it regulation, on the north and south side of the arena where the traps are, take out the lower level and extend the floor. Smart idea.
@@nailitdown219 The problem is, the WCC/Wesbanco was designed from the beginning around a basketball court. Hockey was an afterthought. Doing major demolition work to refit the arena for an NHL rink might be expensive enough that they might be better off with a new arena. Ironically, one of the plans created by an engineer in the early 70s who was something of a gadfly around Wheeling government was designed around a regulation-size ice rink; considering that the arena never took off for college basketball and ultimately Wheeling College gave up on it, and the success of The Thunderbirds/Nailers, they would have been better off with his design!
Idaho resident here! Thanks for choosing our area. I agree the exterior isn’t much to look at, but the experience inside is nothing short of blast! First goal fish toss, “He Shoots! He Scores! Hey Goalie! You suck!!” after every Steelheads goal, chuck a puck during the second intermission. It’s a total vibe going to a Steelheads game
I’m a Florida Everblades season ticket holder, and it’s a LOT of fun down here. For hockey being a cold weather sport, who would have thought the champions for the last two years would be from Florida?
That wasn’t the first time a champ would come from Florida. The Orlando Solar Bears began life in the International Hockey League in the 90s. The Solar Bears actually won the final Turner Cup in league history in 2001 before the league dissolved; six teams joined the AHL, four teams folded, and the Solar Bears moved to the ECHL. BTW, the Lightning would like to say a few words about a Florida team winning a hockey championship… ⚡️🏒😉
On a morbid note, Heritage Bank Center, Cincinnati Cyclones, is the site of The Who concert tragedy in 1979. The Who didn’t play another show in Cincinnati until 2022
Reading's Santander Arena is indeed on the site of a former theater, the Astor. Some preservationists wanted to keep the old theater going, but by the time it met the wrecking ball, it was a dump. The chandelier and some wrought-iron work were saved and can be seen inside the main entrance to the arena.
ECHL getting an expansion to Athens, Georgia and Lake Tahoe, Nevada which hockey fans want the Reno Bronze Knights to follow suit with the Henderson Silver Knights and the Vegas Golden Knights but the real name is the "Tahoe Knight Monsters"
You do know that the owner of the Grand Sierra resort in Reno owns the AhL Tuscon road runners and the NHL Arizona coyotes. And the grand Sierra resort is building a 10k arena that will be hockey ready once the lease is up on the road runners current arena.
The Icemen were in Evansville, Indiana for a long time and eventually made it to the ECHL. But the owner was so greedy and ended up selling the team to Jacksonville.
1:37 It was originally known as Mile One Centre, due to St. John's being the easternmost city in Canada. Mary Brown's, who has the naming rights, is a chain of fried chicken restaurants mainly in Canada. Also in the arena, the press sit in an area known as the Bob Cole Media Centre. It's named for a legendary broadcaster from St. John's who called games for "Hockey Night in Canada" for 50 years.
@@bluebear1985 nice! I grew up in Southern Ontario (well Golden Horseshoe area) and we had a few of them around there in the 80s but haven't seen them in years.
In the 1970's Norfolk Scope had the Virginia Squires of the ABA and the Virginia Wings of the AHL. One night the arena had over 9,000 for a Richmond Robins vs Virginia Wings game and just across the James River, the Hampton Gulls of the SHL had over 6,000 for their hockey game at the Hampton Roads Coliseum. Hockey Night in Tidewater!
As a born and raised Norfolkian, I appreciate you got the pronunciation of Norfolk pretty dang close to how us locals say it. I grew up going to hockey games and wrestling matches at Scope. The original Admirals coach, John Brophy, started as much s#@t with the other teams as the players did and brought home several league championships. Those were good times.
Trying to figure out how an East Coast Hockey League team ended up in Boise of all places, especially since it's further west than eleven of the teams in the Western Hockey League.
There used to be a league called the West Coast Hockey League, and when it folded the ECHL brought in some of its team, including Idaho. Once that happened the ECHL dropped the East Coast Hockey League name, so it just goes by ECHL now with the acronym officially having no meaning anymore
@@psav2005Correct. It’s like how KFC no longer means “Kentucky Fried Chicken;” it’s just KFC. As you noted, the ECHL dropped the “East Coast” part due to its westward expansion and is now known solely by those initials.
Cross insurance arena formally the Cumberland County Civic Center home of the original Mariners and Pirates AHL. Old barn with a new face lift. The tales these barns could tell of the games played in their glory days, endless.
I used to semi-regularly attend Rapid City Rush games before moving to Alaska. My wife and I were excited about the prospect of catching minor-league hockey without having to drive 2 hours one-way to attend a game. About a week after we got things rolling on our move, the Alaska Aces announced they were ceasing operations and moving to Maine. We were bummed out, to say the least.
Thank you for this ( I live in Moundsville West Virginia witch is about 25 minutes south of Wheeling) and the Nailers have the loudest goal horn in the league
9:15 Cincinnati’s Heritage Bank Center was originally called Riverfront Coliseum when it opened in 1975. Its major tenant was the World Hockey Association’s Cincinnati Stingers, which played there from 1975 until the league dissolved in 1979. Its listed capacity for hockey at the time was 15,820; renovations over the years reduced that capacity. Had a 1978 NHL-WHA merger proposal been accepted by the NHL Board of Governors, the Stingers (and the Houston Aeros) would have made it to the NHL. When a plan was finally approved in 1979, only four WHA teams were part of the “expansion”/merger, and this time the Stingers were left out.
FWIW, the Stingers were granted a WHA franchise in 1974 but had to wait for the completion of Riverfront Coliseum in 1975 to commence play. They were allowed to sign and draft players in advance, though, and some were loaned to another WHA club, the Phoenix Roadrunners, for the 1974-75 season.
Funnily enough, this video came at a very good time given that yesterday, Lake Tahoe announced the name of their team that'll start play next year! They're called the Knight Monsters, so hopefully this gets updated next year =)
I grew up going to Indianapolis Ice games at the Pepsi Coliseum (now the Indians Farmers Coliseum for the Indy Fuel). This venue was perfect for minor league hockey! It has super old school turnstiles, doors, seats, etc. It's a proper old school hockey barn!
Happy to see the correct answer was the BOK Center at the end. I went to a lot of games there in college, even watched some from the cat walk above the ice.
12:32 A few years ago, a new junior A team was founded near Thunder Bay, Ontario called Kam River Fighting Walleye. Soon after the team was announced, they had to redesign their logo due to it being too similar to that of the Toledo Walleye, even though the logo was actually orange and black. The new redesigned logo still retained those colours, but they had to make the fish look different. Kind of weird, eh?
The DCU Arena formally The Centrum. No more hosting the Celtics preseason. They haven’t been there in years. The history is probably better as a concert venue. I saw U2 there in the spring of 83, was one of their first arena gigs. I saw them in a theatre in Boston in the fall 82. Some of the other bands I saw in the DCU: REM, The Kinks, Phish, J Geils Band. Probably more but my memory is fuzzy.
In case it shows up again in one of your videos, for the BOK Center in Tulsa (16:14), you say the letters individually B-O-K, not make a chicken noise.
Norfolk Scope is interesting because it's known more for it's history in Pro Wrestling than hockey, WCW had numerous shows there and iirc, WWE, during the attitude era, crashed a WCW show there in a legendary bit.
When I was stationed at Fort Eustis, Virginia back in 1996/1997. They had a big campaign to try and get an NHL franchise. They would have been called the Admirals, of course. They didn’t get it. I wonder why? 🧐
They were actually going to be called the Hampton Roads Rhinos, the colors would have been purple and teal because the potential ownership group was headed by the owner of the Charlotte Hornets at the time.
have you considered making shorts on some of the better or more interesting stadiums in the world? something like parken in copenhagen or that kind of thing? just thought it might be a cool idea in case you were looking for another little thing to do
as a norfolk admirals fan, i can tell you the scope looks pretty cool on the outside for its age, but the acoustics are god awful on the inside because almost no one goes to games anymore there. the echo is ridiculous.
For the utah grizzlies that's an old picture we had screens in the middle, wrapped the stadium , and 3 big ones telling the score I can take pictures and send them to you
The ECHL games don’t sell nearly the same amount of tickets as the NBA, so instead of having the fans super spread out in a too-big arena, they keep it closer to the ice
You should eventually do the arenas of the 3 major junior hockey leagues: the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL.
The Komets frequently sell out games in Fort Wayne, even when they are not doing good, so the seating is adequate and there are talks of expanding again.
Great video!
You’ve got a good coach there now. We hated to lose him in Florida, but he’s going to take you places!
The Komets have quite a legacy that dates back to the IHL days of the early 1950s. It’s a testament to their fans that they’ve supported the team throughout the decades and leagues!
wait! for real? there’s a possibility that the seating capacity is gonna expand?
I think he’s talking about the $1B downtown improvement proposal that includes a new arena. It was initially a smaller arena but there was talk of expanding the capacity.
Wow, the crowd in the photo used in the video was sad. I've never seen it that empty.
The North Charleston Coliseum is such a great place to see a hockey game. Granted I am biased, I grew up seeing hockey games, wrestling shows and had my high school graduation there
The ECHL is a great fun league!! Prices for games are very reasonable plus the quality of play is pretty good.
A good family atmosphere!
Just like most minor league sports venues!
Yeah! just make sure the teams dont forget their jerseys when on the road
@@badkarma987 Hahahaha, LET'S GO WALLEYE!!
@ Actually I’m an ECHL wings fan
Some friends and I drove down to a Nailers game years ago from Pittsburgh, and man, did we have fun. Not quite Pens hockey, but we had a blast. Hockey is so underrated.
That's a feeder team to the Pens so it is Pens Hockey not NHL level
@robertdiez3091 ya, it's basically baby pens, too, but not quite NHL talent. Honestly, I like that better. These guys are working their butts off to get a chance to play in the NHL, and I respect that grind.
@@VIPER0308 as a Caps fan I'm lucky to to see each level from growing up in central pa having Bears an Caps game then moved south an watch Rays games.
An watched a lot of junior hockey that ive noticed at lower levels you notice a player reads the game bit faster than everyone else or passes a bit cleaner will get called up.
@robertdiez3091 I also saw a Bears game. Also, it was a fun time. I'd like to see a Scranton Pens game someday, too. I only ever played rec dek in high school. Was a blast to play. Made me appreciate the young guns who refine their game as they move up the ladder.
@@VIPER0308 Their were a few players I saw at the bears before they got moved to St Louis then quickly got a spot on the NHL team an got a cup within a year or two. I saw Vanachek in person he is huge wall in goal an made crazy saves wish the Cap kept him. The goalie grouping for at least three years were strong NHL to ECHL guys getting called up so fast one bad game back down shut everything down again an go back up.
I worked at the arena here in Victoria when we had the Salmon Kings in the ECHL. In stereotypical ECHL action, there was a fight 3 seconds into a game.
What took em so long?
The ECHL acronym officially has no meaning anymore, as the league has expanded across North America
And
Yeah, both ECHL and SPHL are orphan initialism now.
there even used to be a team in alaska lol
I watched this while wearing my Orlando Solar Bears t-shirt . My wife and I are proud season ticket holders… GO BEARS !!!
LETS GO BEARSSSSS
Bodied once again by the blades better luck next season 😂😂😂
13:07 Wesbanco Arena (then known as the Wheeling Civic Center) was designed around a basketball court rather than an ice rink, in part because it was to serve as the home for Wheeling (Jesuit) College basketball, although they moved back on-campus after a couple of seasons. Even with the floor-level seats pushed back, the ice rink is only 185 feet long instead of NHL-regulation 200 feet, with the shortage taken out of the center neutral ice area. That creates some interesting tactical challenges for game planning as well as roster composition.
Tell you what, the game is a lot more physical on the short ice. What I was thinking to make it regulation, on the north and south side of the arena where the traps are, take out the lower level and extend the floor. Smart idea.
@@nailitdown219 The problem is, the WCC/Wesbanco was designed from the beginning around a basketball court. Hockey was an afterthought. Doing major demolition work to refit the arena for an NHL rink might be expensive enough that they might be better off with a new arena. Ironically, one of the plans created by an engineer in the early 70s who was something of a gadfly around Wheeling government was designed around a regulation-size ice rink; considering that the arena never took off for college basketball and ultimately Wheeling College gave up on it, and the success of The Thunderbirds/Nailers, they would have been better off with his design!
Idaho resident here! Thanks for choosing our area. I agree the exterior isn’t much to look at, but the experience inside is nothing short of blast! First goal fish toss, “He Shoots! He Scores! Hey Goalie! You suck!!” after every Steelheads goal, chuck a puck during the second intermission. It’s a total vibe going to a Steelheads game
Just a note Market Square Arena hosted Elvis's final show and Randy Rhodes next to last
I’m a Florida Everblades season ticket holder, and it’s a LOT of fun down here. For hockey being a cold weather sport, who would have thought the champions for the last two years would be from Florida?
That wasn’t the first time a champ would come from Florida. The Orlando Solar Bears began life in the International Hockey League in the 90s. The Solar Bears actually won the final Turner Cup in league history in 2001 before the league dissolved; six teams joined the AHL, four teams folded, and the Solar Bears moved to the ECHL. BTW, the Lightning would like to say a few words about a Florida team winning a hockey championship… ⚡️🏒😉
I actually went to school and played rugby with the Indy Fuel's goalie. Good dude, glad to see he's doing well
Great! Now more of those European hockey arenas!
On a morbid note, Heritage Bank Center, Cincinnati Cyclones, is the site of The Who concert tragedy in 1979. The Who didn’t play another show in Cincinnati until 2022
Reading's Santander Arena is indeed on the site of a former theater, the Astor. Some preservationists wanted to keep the old theater going, but by the time it met the wrecking ball, it was a dump. The chandelier and some wrought-iron work were saved and can be seen inside the main entrance to the arena.
ECHL getting an expansion to Athens, Georgia and Lake Tahoe, Nevada which hockey fans want the Reno Bronze Knights to follow suit with the Henderson Silver Knights and the Vegas Golden Knights but the real name is the "Tahoe Knight Monsters"
??? Knight Monsters? WTF?
@cjdapd7599 yeah and the colors in the logo are Teal, Black Vegas Gold, white
Abbreviation is likely "TKM"
Definite facepalm
You do know that the owner of the Grand Sierra resort in Reno owns the AhL Tuscon road runners and the NHL Arizona coyotes. And the grand Sierra resort is building a 10k arena that will be hockey ready once the lease is up on the road runners current arena.
Bloomington Got An ECHL Franchise
And That Is The Bison.
The Icemen were in Evansville, Indiana for a long time and eventually made it to the ECHL. But the owner was so greedy and ended up selling the team to Jacksonville.
1:37 It was originally known as Mile One Centre, due to St. John's being the easternmost city in Canada. Mary Brown's, who has the naming rights, is a chain of fried chicken restaurants mainly in Canada. Also in the arena, the press sit in an area known as the Bob Cole Media Centre. It's named for a legendary broadcaster from St. John's who called games for "Hockey Night in Canada" for 50 years.
Mary Brown's is still in existence? That brings back memories of grade 7 and 8 back in the 80s walking over at lunch for a box of taters.
@neilwhitaker6284 Yes it is. A new location opened in Thunder Bay recently.
Is St John's where the TCH begins? Mile zero? Sounds slightly better than Kilometer Zero arena.
@@bluebear1985 nice! I grew up in Southern Ontario (well Golden Horseshoe area) and we had a few of them around there in the 80s but haven't seen them in years.
@neilwhitaker6284 There seems to be a bunch of them in southern Ontario right now. As for here in the great northwest, not so much.
All of these arenas look really good! I like them. The Florida Everblades have one of the best team names ever.
One of the coolest logos as well
In the 1970's Norfolk Scope had the Virginia Squires of the ABA and the Virginia Wings of the AHL. One night the arena had over 9,000 for a Richmond Robins vs Virginia Wings game and just across the James River, the Hampton Gulls of the SHL had over 6,000 for their hockey game at the Hampton Roads Coliseum. Hockey Night in Tidewater!
The ECHL is ny favorite hockey league. The teams are just si varied but also close enough to each other you can go to plenty of away games.
I was just at the Scope on Saturday night. It was a fantastic venue and the game was awesome as well. First ECHL game in over 20 years for me.
There are a few more leagues to cover such as the FPHL and the SPHL which are a lower leagues to ECHL. My favorite arena was the Idaho Steelheads
RIP Aces, miss you every hockey season 🥲
It’s wild they made that work as long as it did.
That new auto start shop will always be the Aces offices to me.
The Atlanta Gladiators are the direct descendant of the team I grew up with, the Mobile Mysticks.
ECHL has since become an orphaned acronym. it used to stand for East Coast Hockey League. Now ECHL is the actual name of the league.
It’s like how KFC is now just KFC and not “Kentucky Fried Chicken” (even though most of us of a certain age still call it that).
4:41 Believe it or not the DCU just underwent a major renovation and now all the inner bowl seats are blue and they're padded seats!
I’m surprised the Norfolk Scope is still open. Last I remember, D Generation X tried to invade it while WCW was hosting Monday Nitro lol
The Scope is an architectural marvel despite its size!
As a born and raised Norfolkian, I appreciate you got the pronunciation of Norfolk pretty dang close to how us locals say it.
I grew up going to hockey games and wrestling matches at Scope. The original Admirals coach, John Brophy, started as much s#@t with the other teams as the players did and brought home several league championships. Those were good times.
The ECHL is a fantastic minor league, and our Cincinnati Cyclones are a great and reasonably affordable way to spend a weekend night in the winter.
Trying to figure out how an East Coast Hockey League team ended up in Boise of all places, especially since it's further west than eleven of the teams in the Western Hockey League.
There used to be a league called the West Coast Hockey League, and when it folded the ECHL brought in some of its team, including Idaho. Once that happened the ECHL dropped the East Coast Hockey League name, so it just goes by ECHL now with the acronym officially having no meaning anymore
@@psav2005Correct. It’s like how KFC no longer means “Kentucky Fried Chicken;” it’s just KFC. As you noted, the ECHL dropped the “East Coast” part due to its westward expansion and is now known solely by those initials.
Cross insurance arena formally the Cumberland County Civic Center home of the original Mariners and Pirates AHL. Old barn with a new face lift. The tales these barns could tell of the games played in their glory days, endless.
I used to semi-regularly attend Rapid City Rush games before moving to Alaska. My wife and I were excited about the prospect of catching minor-league hockey without having to drive 2 hours one-way to attend a game.
About a week after we got things rolling on our move, the Alaska Aces announced they were ceasing operations and moving to Maine.
We were bummed out, to say the least.
The original arena at the Monument in Rapid City was built in 1977, but the ice arena for the Rush was built in 2008.
The Monument was originally called Rushmore Plaza. Rapid City is the gateway to Mount Rushmore.
Rushmore Plaza is now called The Monument?
Man, a lot has change since I left The Hills
Thank you for this ( I live in Moundsville West Virginia witch is about 25 minutes south of Wheeling) and the Nailers have the loudest goal horn in the league
Amway Center has veen renamed the Kia Center and is also home to the Orlando Magic (NBA) and the Orlando Predators (AFL)
You gotta do an update including Tahoe Monsters expansion team playing at Tahoe Blue Event Center
9:15 Cincinnati’s Heritage Bank Center was originally called Riverfront Coliseum when it opened in 1975. Its major tenant was the World Hockey Association’s Cincinnati Stingers, which played there from 1975 until the league dissolved in 1979. Its listed capacity for hockey at the time was 15,820; renovations over the years reduced that capacity. Had a 1978 NHL-WHA merger proposal been accepted by the NHL Board of Governors, the Stingers (and the Houston Aeros) would have made it to the NHL. When a plan was finally approved in 1979, only four WHA teams were part of the “expansion”/merger, and this time the Stingers were left out.
FWIW, the Stingers were granted a WHA franchise in 1974 but had to wait for the completion of Riverfront Coliseum in 1975 to commence play. They were allowed to sign and draft players in advance, though, and some were loaned to another WHA club, the Phoenix Roadrunners, for the 1974-75 season.
Love my Adirondack Thunder! Still call it the Glens Falls Civic Center.
Would love to see the SPHL or FPHL (especially the FPHL which has some really fun arenas)
2:55 Lori and George's hometown was Reading, PA. At one point, they were the world's oldest conjoined twins.
The bits are out of control thsi episode I love it
Love the hockey videos keep em up
Funnily enough, this video came at a very good time given that yesterday, Lake Tahoe announced the name of their team that'll start play next year! They're called the Knight Monsters, so hopefully this gets updated next year =)
Lake Tahoe is now really stretching the notion of "East Coast"
@@mjbull5156 I mean, the Alaska Aces played in the league, so the "East Coast" name was always antiquated
As a Tahoe native. I’m excited so Go Monsters!!!
@@MercSamurai09 it´s the knight monsters
@@noni4117 the monsters would be an abbreviation and I know they’re the knight monsters
The kalamazoo Wings are about to build a new arena also hope you do a video of the SPHL hockey soon
I grew up going to Indianapolis Ice games at the Pepsi Coliseum (now the Indians Farmers Coliseum for the Indy Fuel). This venue was perfect for minor league hockey! It has super old school turnstiles, doors, seats, etc. It's a proper old school hockey barn!
10,480 is actually the average fan capacity. It’s the number fans that show up to weekday and weekend games most of all. It depends on the game
Been waiting for this one!
Great video! Would be nice to see one about the SPHL and FPHL too!
The Fed would probably be hard to find photos for.
I love the Toledo walleye
check out the future Caraquet,NB, Canada, arena, presently in construction. One ice lenght wall if all windows, where you can see the town.
Happy to see the correct answer was the BOK Center at the end. I went to a lot of games there in college, even watched some from the cat walk above the ice.
Whenever I see the Norfolk Scope, I have a tendency to think of WCW wrestling.
The Royal yawning is so accurate
12:32 A few years ago, a new junior A team was founded near Thunder Bay, Ontario called Kam River Fighting Walleye. Soon after the team was announced, they had to redesign their logo due to it being too similar to that of the Toledo Walleye, even though the logo was actually orange and black. The new redesigned logo still retained those colours, but they had to make the fish look different. Kind of weird, eh?
Similar? They stole the logo and changed the color and the teeth! They couldn't come up with something on their own and got caught!
The DCU Arena formally The Centrum. No more hosting the Celtics preseason. They haven’t been there in years. The history is probably better as a concert venue. I saw U2 there in the spring of 83, was one of their first arena gigs. I saw them in a theatre in Boston in the fall 82. Some of the other bands I saw in the DCU: REM, The Kinks, Phish, J Geils Band. Probably more but my memory is fuzzy.
Finally. Go Ghost Pirates!
I was waiting for this video lets go!!!!
you should definitely do Canands major junior leagues (OHL, WHL, QMJHL)
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER LES GOO ECHL
YES!!! Please do the WHL next!
Hockey East next? Please and thank you!
In case it shows up again in one of your videos, for the BOK Center in Tulsa (16:14), you say the letters individually B-O-K, not make a chicken noise.
4:52 My Favorite Arena The Gas South Arena (Formerly Gwinnett Center)
I went to two Orlando solar bears games to Florida in 2018 and 2022
Norfolk Scope is interesting because it's known more for it's history in Pro Wrestling than hockey, WCW had numerous shows there and iirc, WWE, during the attitude era, crashed a WCW show there in a legendary bit.
Do SPHL next! Wanna see my Huntsville Havoc get featured on here!
Little note, you used the wrong Admirals logo up in the corner. The logo you used is from when they played in the AHL.
Tulsa Oilers is also the name of an Indoor Football League football team.
When I was stationed at Fort Eustis, Virginia back in 1996/1997. They had a big campaign to try and get an NHL franchise. They would have been called the Admirals, of course.
They didn’t get it. I wonder why? 🧐
They were actually going to be called the Hampton Roads Rhinos, the colors would have been purple and teal because the potential ownership group was headed by the owner of the Charlotte Hornets at the time.
@@kurzy17 That’s cool. I couldn’t quite remember. I know everyone was excited. Thanks for the info
have you considered making shorts on some of the better or more interesting stadiums in the world? something like parken in copenhagen or that kind of thing? just thought it might be a cool idea in case you were looking for another little thing to do
You should do a video on all the arenas of the USHL!
I hoping Richmond will eventually get a hockey team again
as a norfolk admirals fan, i can tell you the scope looks pretty cool on the outside for its age, but the acoustics are god awful on the inside because almost no one goes to games anymore there. the echo is ridiculous.
The Railers’s actually just had a remodel done so the seats match.
Could you do OHL Next? Go Ice Dogs!
I'm going to the ATL Gladiators game Sunday and im sitting on the glass next to the bench
Swedish Hockey League next!
In addition to a few recent NHL games, Sweden is josting the World Junior Championships this year.
Can we get a WHL ( can't remember if there is a video) and WCL (baseball) please!
Nice for the ECHL
The Indy Fuel are building there own arena
For the utah grizzlies that's an old picture we had screens in the middle, wrapped the stadium , and 3 big ones telling the score I can take pictures and send them to you
Miss when the Thunder played at the Kansas Coliseum. Intrust Bank Arena is pretty meh and never draws a big crowd so games are always quiet
Now we need the NAHL
I live in Tulsa and our arena is the best. That said dude got the name wrong. It’s B-O-K Center. Not bock.
The Everglades arena is always on point I mean winning 4 cups 3 back2back2back they got money to make it like being at amerant
Can you do the SPHL next?
7:33 the top level is only used for NBA games but not for ECHL games? Why would they block the top level for ECHL games?
The ECHL games don’t sell nearly the same amount of tickets as the NBA, so instead of having the fans super spread out in a too-big arena, they keep it closer to the ice
ID be interested inb lower german leages, 3rd, 4th divisions (football, ice hockes tc)
please do WHL or BCHL next
As of Yesterday the Amway Center is now known as the KIA Center 🎉
1:50 I have a Newfoundland dog. If he came across a crocodile in the water he'd just want to play.
160 pound hairy lap dog. Only fear is drowning in drool, good swimmer they'll save you.
@@DonKnight-qi4tu Ichinojo weighs 175 lbs, he plows through the lochs like Michael Phelps, and he does drool enough to fill a bathtub!
Let’s go Knight Monsters!!!!
Sweet!
4:46, they just installed new Blue Seats in the arena.
Now do the arenas of the CHL!
Make a QMJHL video!
Indy Fuel is getting their new home in the next year or two.
Please do SHL, Swedish Hockey League