Palladium/Corel Centre/ Scotiabank Place/Canadian Tire Centre

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

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Apparently Ottawa was considered as a relocation spot for the Colorado Rockies. They ended up becoming the New Jersey Devils.

The one thing Cyril would change is making the lower bowl bigger. He says they have 5k seats in the lower bowl (I assume it was more initially since they replaced some seats with more premium seats over the last decade), and 9k in the middle.

Leeder says that Palladium was a name of a venue in the UK and Bruce Firestone wanted to give the place a name. They did look for an official naming rights deal but couldn't until a month or so after opening when Corel called them up. Leeder wouldn't have given it a name in hindsight, but honestly, even after all these years, the name still stuck (though the street and businesses around probably helped).

Most of the conversation is about the Palladium, how it came to be.

Did Nepean almost have its very own NHL team?
On January 12, 1982, Nepean Mayor Ben Franklin proposed to Nepean's City Council that the arena at the Nepean Sportsplex be enlarged from 3,000 to 15,000 seats to pave the way for the relocation of the NHL’s struggling Colorado Rockies to Nepean.
Mayor Franklin declared the odds "better than 50%” that Nepean would be home to its own NHL franchise by the end of 1981-82 hockey season.
The following day, Franklin flew to Toronto and met with Rockies owner Peter Gilber, who indicated to Franklin his willingness to consider helping finance the expansion of the Nepean Sportsplex arena.
In the end, the Rockies did leave Colorado at the end of the season, but chose to relocate to New Jersey instead, renaming themselves the Devils.

I remember making sketches of possible arena expansions instead of paying attention in class

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