Where is the gila river arena
RINKS AROUND THE LEAGUE | Gila River Arena
we're off to the desert to visit the
Gila River Arena this is rinks around a
leaf let's go
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hey there and welcome back to ring Swan
a league I'm your host Jeff Nash and on
today's episode we're after the Gila
River arena in Glendale Arizona home of
the Arizona coyotes struction of gila
river arena started back on April 3rd
2002 and it opened on December 26 2003
at a cost of two hundred and twenty
million dollars the rink was publicly
financed and is owned by the city of
glendale financing by the city of
glendale looked like this thirty million
dollars in general obligation bond
funding and 150 million and excise tax
funding which would be repaid through
revenue generated directly from the
project seating capacity seventeen
thousand one hundred twenty five naming
rights were obtained in 2014 by Gila
River casinos but terms and finances
were not disclosed average secondary
market ticket pricing ranks them twenty
eighth in a league at $95 a scoreboard
measures twenty four by four to two feet
speaking of that scoreboard it was
installed prior to the 2018-19 NHL
season although it's not a brand new
scoreboard that's because it's the old
scoreboard of the Detroit Pistons of the
NBA the scoreboard was installed in the
palace in Detroit but with the
construction of Little Caesars Arena the
Pistons moved to the new rink
it was because of this that the City of
Glendale and AEG decided to purchase and
replace the out-of-date scoreboard that
hung inside Gila River arena now the
rink is located right beside the
University of Phoenix football stadium
which is home of the Arizona Cardinals
of the NFL now the rink has a lot to
offer even though it's a little ways
from downtown Phoenix there's a lot of
shopping restaurants around the rink for
some pregame fun now there's a lot of
history politics and controversy that
surround the Arizona coyotes ever since
they came down from Winnipeg in 1996 but
we're not really gonna dive into it that
much but I'll include links down below
for you to catch up on all that for the
terms of the rink there's lots to like
it's very clean and modern as a pretty
simple design it has a large upper Bowl
and a pretty moderate sized lower bowl
outside they have a really nice
courtyard surrounded with restaurants
and bars during the game they have the
classic coyote howl that they do after
every goal and if you're lucky enough to
catch playoff hockey at Gila River Arena
they'll also do the white out which of
course pays homage to the Winnipeg Jets
where the team originated before moving
to Arizona in 1996 so there's plenty to
like is there anything I don't like
about this ring
now the rink is pretty nice and simple
and clean but that's about it
other than the addition of the new
scoreboard there's
bells & whistles about this ring there's
no banners in the rafters there's no
distinguishable features about this ring
that sets it apart from the rest of the
league they also have small crowds
attendance has always been an issue in
Arizona
now much like other rinks with small
crowds they do have a very passionate
fan base but let's face it a large
portion of the crowds are canadians
traveling there for the winter and
cheering on their teams like the Oilers
flames and Canucks but that's about it
there's nothing that really takes this
rink to the top of the league in
conclusion the Gila River arena is an
ice rink and it's surrounded by lots of
shopping restaurants and bars but their
low attendance its lackluster design a
lack of character Frank sit low in the
league but the cheap and plentiful
tickets make it a destination for
out-of-town hockey fans trying to escape
those brutal kadian winters that does it
for this episode of bring ston a league
on the next episode we're off to the PPG
paints arena in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
home and the Pittsburgh Penguins as
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and ring that Bell I never forget we
were in this elevator in Arizona and on
the side of the elevator they have the
floor so there's like main concourse
event level upper concourse and his
family walked in and this little kid
asked the rink staff to please press
upper class for the upper concourse I
thought that was pretty fun
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