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Originally Posted by Dalreg
Esquire you obviously have something against Saskatoon building a 15k+ arena. Good thing you aren't making the decision. By your thinking Winnipeg should never have built a 15k arena as the Manitoba Moose, the main tenant of the arena when it was built never averaged more than 7500 per season. Guess Winnipeg over built. How about Quebec City. They are no where near averaging sellouts for it's teams?
Face it Saskatoon will build as big or bigger as the current arena.
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Haha, you are right. I didn't see the point in Winnipeg building a 15,000 seat arena as it seemed way too big for the AHL but also too small for the NHL in case that ever became a realistic prospect. But I was wrong about the last part.
Originally MTS Centre was supposed to be around 12,000 seats and some political machinations led to the capacity being expanded. It did not make sense to me at the time, but clearly the wheels were turning back then to get Winnipeg back into the NHL. So in the end those extra 3,000 or so seats were justified, although until the NHL returned a smaller arena would have worked just fine.
Anyway, is that scenario likely to play out for Saskatoon? Probably not. But hey, I've been wrong about it before
