If you look carefully, a few of the arenas had a "3ICE" logo painted into the center circle of the ice. After a query of Google, 3ICE is a touring hockey league, comprised of six squads of players coached by former NHL players, and they play under a modified ruleset that closely resembles the NHL's overtime rules, with each team consisting of three skaters (hence the 3 in 3ICE) and a goalie. I guess it's like Ice Hockey's answer to basketball's BIG3 or Rugby Sevens.

XL Center, also known as Hartford Civic Center, was the former home of the Hartford Whalers. Also I have attended an event at the XL Center and you can definitely tell it was built in the 1970's.

The XL Center in Hartford was originally used by the New England Whalers of the now-defunct World Hockey Association (WHA). They were renamed the Hartford Whalers when they were accepted into the NHL in 1979. They would remain there until their relocation to Carolina in 1997.

YOOOOOO it’s about time. Do ECHL next

Love this channel just bought a ticket plan with the Tucson Roadrunners and getting into the AHL ...you'll be to do the ECHL next.

I work at US Bank Stadium (Minnesota Vikings). Thank you for the consistent and informative overviews of venues from around the world! So fascinating. 😁

Another awesome vid! One thing…It is is pronounced ad-uh-RON-dak. The emphasis is on the third syllable.

9:29 The cable ceiling at MSG was actually inspired by the Utica Aud’s design

Bakersfield literally got ignored smh. Didn't show rhe front entrance which is its nicest external part, also since it was mentioned for the ice hogs our seats are maroon since that used to be one of our main colors before being brought up to the ahl.

From Boston, I played in 60's,70:s, playing in USA and Canada I've been to so many drinks I can't remember most of them, one rink was an old WW11 airplane hanger, many miles driven, sometimes I'm the back of a covered pickup truck laying on our hockey bags. Cool video, thank you. Go bruins 🇺🇸🏒🇨🇦

Love your videos. My mom is from Sri Lanka. I loved what you said about the Rochester Americans. 🇱🇰 🇱🇰 Please do the echl next.

The XL Center was formerly the Hartford Civic Center, home to the New England Whalers of the NHL rival World Hockey Association starting in 1974, after spending two seasons in Boston. After the roof collapsed in a snowstorm in January 1978 just hours after a college basketball game, the Whalers temporarily relocated to Springfield, Massachusetts while the Civic Center roof was replaced and the arena expanded from 10,500 seats to 15,000. The NE Whalers became the Hartford Whalers when the WHA merged with the NHL for the 1979-80 season, and the Civic Center reopened in early 1980.

Because of their move to Arizona State University's arena, the NHL's Arizona Coyotes play in a smaller arena than their AHL affiliate Tucson does

I was told that Hershey Bears former arena: The Hersheypark Arena is still standing. I’m glad that historic arena wasn’t torn down. Lots of history inside that place. I use to live near Hershey, PA by the way

Hey I never thought I'd see an arena from Belleville Ontario on your channel! Nice. I lived North of town for a decade. It used to be called the Yardmen Arena because Belleville was an important rail junction and still has a lot of train and trucking transport industry. The name Yardmen was paying respect to the railway workers. It was the home of the junior hockey team the Belleville Bulls who were located there from about 1979 until 2016 or so. With the arena without a tennant the Ottawa Senators moved their farm team there after a refurbishment of the arena. The city of Ottawa is about 3 hours drive down the highway (what you would call a motorway), closer to 2 if you really drive fast. So it was a good place geographically for them to put their team. Besides the main arena there are 2 other rinks, an indoor track, pool and gym. Most people from that area have used those facilities at some point. Quebexicans as you call them (lol) are called Quebecois (Kwe-beck-waz). I'm not from there but have been and I think Barre from Wilkes-Barre is pronounced Berry. Anybody from Pennsylvania can correct me if I'm wrong. I really like the style of the Lehigh Valley team arena, really unique cool design, works for me. edit: Plural Moose are still called Moose. Coachella is pronounced "Koh-chella" the "a" is silent like in the word coach.

Thank you I was waiting so long for another hockey arena video!!!

11:48 At the time Canada Life Centre (then MTS Centre) was built, its main tennant was the Moose. The Jets moved there in 2011 after relocating from Atlanta, which had this team move to St. John's, Newfoundland and become the IceCaps. They would move back west in 2015.

Nice video! You should really go through European hockey arenas. For example Swizerland, Germany, Finland and Sweden.

As someone who has spent probably a little too much time at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse over the last couple decades, I gotta say it's quite the environment. The swords on the corners of the Humongotron, as you call it, fold out and shoot columns of fire during the Monsters intro. It's absolutely insane during Monsters playoff runs, especially considering that they take the tarps off the upper bowl and pack almost 19,000 people in there. Also, if you're planning a trip, Fridays are dollar dog and beer night.

Fun fact: Upstate Medical Arena was one of the filming sites of the original Slapshot movie from 1977. Syracuse has had several pro hockey teams but was largely considered a hockey "graveyard" until the Crunch came around. Also, the whole "Syracuse Crunch" thing is more than likely a nod to Nestle, which had a factory near Syracuse in the 1990s. Crunch was one of five names in a poll for the team's name back in 1994. Also, it's funny how you mentioned the Royals and Clippers when you talked about Rochester and San Diego, yet failed to mention the Syracuse Nationals (now Philadelphia 76ers) while talking about Syracuse. Yes, there was once an NBA team in Syracuse NY. Also it probably would've been a good idea to mention the Knighthawks in the Rochester section since you briefly mentioned the Seals while talking about Sam Diego. Besides those minor nitpicks, great job!

I was in the Palm Springs area recently and attended the very first game at Acrisure Arena. The pictures don’t do the venue justice. Absolutely gorgeous facility. Very well laid out. They have a bourbon bar and a tequila bar, if either of those are your thing. They also offer self checkouts for beer and food.

The Milwaukee Admirals play at when it was built was called the Milwaukee Arena and Auditorium. It's a two building complex on a large city block just north of Wisconsin Ave. the main street running through the downtown!

The Rockets use to play at Pechanga Arena in San Diego before relocating to Houston.

Love your videos and dry humour mate. Keep it up and have a great new year!

Also should be noted that the Abbotsford Centre home of the Abbotsford Canucks is also located on the primary Campus of the University of the Fraser Valley. I was a student there and the centre is used for the Graduation ceremonies of the University.

Grand Rapids is my hometown team. Definitely should expand and knock down the wall to make a complete oval but they said they were gonna do that for years but never have.

There are some cool ECHL arenas (the league below the AHL). Also if you want to see some iconic hockey arenas, take a look at the (quite numerous, probably would be a Playlist of videos) at the NCAA College Ice hockey arenas. Some of my favorites are Yost (university of Michigan), Alford (University of Maine), Berry Events Center (NMU... I'm an alumni so I'm partial), etc. Just as in college football, college hockey is all over the place as far as design. Keep up the great work!

The next step below the AHL on the hockey ladder is the ECHL, originally called East Coast Hockey League until they absorbed the old West Coast Hockey League. Finding good photos might be a challenge, but might this be on your to-do list? BTW, I don't blame you for struggling with "Adirondack"; it's pronounced "ADD-er-RON-dack".

Hershey Bears Arena is nice especially because its not in a big city and it easy to get out and not stuck in traffic if you know your exits

The XL Center in Hartford used to be the home of the Hartford Whalers, who moved to Carolina to be the Carolina Hurricanes, so it had a large capacity because it was the home of an NHL team. As well, it is the home of the UCONN basketball and hockey teams

YAY! Thank you so much for doing my suggestion! Have a great New Year!

UWM Panther Arena is the original home of the Milwaukee Bucks (originally called the Milwaukee Arena, then the MECCA Arena for the Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena). Like a lot of arenas in this video has hosted a WIDE variety of tenants. The current list of tenants for UWM Panther Arena are the UW-Milwaukee men's basketball program, an indoor soccer team (Milwaukee Wave), and (not recently, but technically still a tenant) a women's roller derby team.

I've caught a Wolves game at the Allstate Center before. It's nothing fancy, but it has all the things you'd expect.

19:14 The Gulls name has been used a few different times by teams in a number of leagues that have previously used the building. Must be a popular name in the area. For a few years in the mid-70s, it was home to the San Diego Mariners of the WHA, the biggest rival to the NHL throughout its existence from 1972 to 1979.

0:21 total mtg, CT 8,412 0:53 bojangles, NC 8,600 1:31 XL cent, CT 14,750 2:10 giant, PA 10,500 2:57 ppl, PA 9,046 3:32 amicaMu, RI 11,273 4:04 massMu, MA 6,800 4:36 moheagan sun arena, PA 8,300 5:14 CAA, CAN 4,365 5:53 rocketMo, OH 18,926 6:32 placebell, CAN 10,062 7:11 blue cross, NY 10,662 7:54 UpstateMed NY, 5,800 8:34 coca-cola, CAN 8,100 9:09 adirondac, NY 3,860 9:49 allstate IL, 16,692 10:26 can-and, MI 11,000 11:04 wells fago, IA 15,181 11:45 can-life, CAN 15,321 12:21 UW-Milw, WI 9,652 13:09 BMO, IL 6,200 13:47 HEB, TX 6,77814:25 abbot, CAN 7,000 15:03 MechBank, CA 8,751 15:38 Scotia, CAN 19,289 16:31 acrisure, CA 9,918 17:05 budweis, CO 5,300 17:41 dollar, NV 5,567 18:18 toyota CA 9,736 18:55 pechang, CA 14,600 19:29 TechCU, CA, 4,200 20;02 tuscon, AZ 6,791 Question to the narrator: first of all great video, next, how did you obtain all of the aerial copter footage, all of which have the same "swooping pass" point of view, and interior pictures? I'm impressed. Edit: oh it's Google Earth animation.

A legenrary video! You rock man, it just seemed you were a bit down, hopefully it is just a cold, because we love you and cannot wait for the next video... P.S. I would love to see your your take on the stadiums of Wollongong, because it would be so unique and done the right way

Growing up 15 minutes outside of Hershey, I've been to the GIANT Center so many times. So many Bears games and other events. It's of course pretty standard, but I have a lot of love for it. Especially with hockey, for rivalry and playoff games, it gets LOUD for minor league hockey and I love it. By the way, they used to play in the Hersheypark Arena from like 1930s to 2002. It's where I saw my first Bears games when I was anywhere from four to seven years old (1998-2002), it's where Wilt Chamberlain had his legendary 100-point game and it's where, when I worked at Hersheypark during summer in between college semesters, I could sit and eat my lunch in one of the seats lol. I'd recommend doing a video about old-time arenas like Hersheypark Arena. Ones that are no longer in use, still exist, or were demolished. I think it'd be a fun project.

Do the major juniors next! (WHL/OHL/QMJHL)

I love your videos! Would love to see a NLL arena video!

I love bojangles coliseum in Charlotte. It has a very rich history of nwa/wcw wrestling and its just got that classic old school vibe about it.

Actually, the Tech CU Arena is connected to the Sharks Ice venue, where both Sharks and Barracuda practice. And having an arena right next to is actually convenient.

I'd love for you to consider doing videos on NCAA hockey arenas. Some of them are unreal.

Acrisure and the Firebirds are absolutely awesome. So much fun 🙌

I’ve been a hockey fan for a decade and I only learned a couple of years ago that it was not the Ontario in Canada and I was blown away

2nd comment, the Syracuse Crunch arena is a beauty! The Coca Cola Arena would do a lot of farm exhibitions (like livestock), I saw the Eukanuba Super Dogs in there once. The wooden roof on the Rosemont Arena is beautiful. The Iowa arena is impressive. Love the old style of the Milwaukee one.

These jokes hit hard. Fantastic video

Love the video, it's weird when you work for an ahl team and see the building you go to frequently in a video being commented on

Just happened starting this year, but the Eagles aren't sponsored by Budweiser anymore. Their naming rights expired, and now they're sponsored by Blue Credit Union, putting the facility under the name of Blue Arena. It's mostly the same inside, except the seats are now cushioned leather instead of hard plastic. A very welcomed change indeed

Came for the arenas, subscribed for the one liners

I have been to the Coachella Valley Firebirds Arena I think the atmosphere is pretty great

Enjoyed the tour

I can't wait to see the ECHL arenas video.

agree with a lot of the comments below requesting ECHL...especially when a team playing in an ECHL arena has 3x the capacity of their NHL affiliate!

The Dollar Loan Center is also the home of the Vegas Knight Hawks of the Indoor Football league. The Henderson Silver Knights are also the AHL affiliate of the Vegas Golden Knights

Fun fact about the Abbotsford arena. Design elements were taken from Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg and incorporated in the build!

The PPL Center isn't boxed in by those buildings, they /are/ part of the PPL Center. The concourse is the main hallway of the building on the Hamilton Street side and across that hall from the rink is Tim Horton's and Chickie's and Petes. I believe the suites are also accessed from the upper floors of those buildings, but I can't be certain on that, I've never been in a suite.

Keep up the great work! If you want to do more hockey, NCAA college hockey has some small but great arenas! Yale's in particular is incredibly unique!

Saddledome is also also home to the NHL Calgary Flames. Would have been worth a mention.

Does anyone remember the shopping mall which was once attached to the arena in Hartford? I was always so fascinated by that concept, and I went to a Wolfpack game there on opening night in 2004. I was so excited I was finally going to get the chance to see it in person after all that time! Sadly that long awaited for me opportunity never came, as the mall part was in the process of being torn down when I went there. I also attended many Phantoms games at the old Spectrum in Philly, along with several 76ers game, and a Flyers game there during the 90's. I also got to go to a concert featuring Hall & Oates, The Hooters, and Todd Rundgren at the Spectrum in late 2009 as well. That and went to several B-Sens, and a single B-Devils games at the arena in Binghamton when I'd make a visit to that area. Though they sadly no longer has AHL hockey there now unfortunately.

1:02 Considering the team name, that would have been interesting if the Checker's chain had the naming rights. However, during the late 70s and early 80s, the St. Louis Arena (then home of the NHL's Blues) was known as the Checkerdome due to the Blues owner at the time being the CEO of Ralston-Purina, a company known for making mainly dog food. Their logo is kind of checkered.

So fun fact: The Toyota Arena that the Ontario Reign play in, was originally built for the Ontario Reign, but when they were an ECHL team. As you know by now, most ECHL teams don't have very large capacity arenas. Toyota arena can hold about 10k people which is a lot for an AHL team, let alone an ECHL team, and they used to regularly sell out games. The Reign still do well as far as attendance is concerned though. The Reign switched rosters, and leagues back in 2015, with the Manchester Monarchs so that the players could be closer to LA, and the LA Kings are the parent team, and only about 60 miles away.

Van Andel Arena was home to the Grand Rapids Rampage (AFL) and I believe the Wells Fargo Arena us home to the Iowa Barnstormers (IFL) and the Dollar Loan Center is home to the Vegas Knight Hawks (IFL)

The arena in Milwaukie was the 1st nba home for the bucks the Bradley center is next door followed by their current stadium

I was just at an Abbotsford Canucks game! I found a way onto the roof and you can see the border and over it from the roof.

I like how Syracuse jammed some seats on the stage at one end. It reminds me of that Russian World Cup Stadium (and the host of the opening game in Brazil) that built some janky extra stands to temporarily boost capacity. Sometimes janky is fun.

Next video, ECHL arenas

The Milwaukee Admirals arena was originally the MECCA Arena and was the first major sports venue in Milwaukee. It was the home of the Milwaukee Bucks until the late 80s.

4:41 The "Barre" in Wilkes-Barre is pronounced "berry."

the milwaukee arena used to be called the mecca and was home of the bucks of the nba up into the late 80's before they moved to the bradley center

I grew up 10 minutes from they XL Center, it used to host an NHL team until the assholes became the Hurricane. It was also in your Big East video as it’s one of the homes for UConn.

Can't wait for ECHL arenas

Yessir Allentown pa I live there in im glad we got some recognition

I laughed so hard at your pronunciation of Adirondack 😂. It’s AD-eh-RON-dack. Good effort though!

Was wondering if you could do the sphl hockey. One arena. In Danville Illinois used to be home to the Danville dashers fphl hockey team.

The All State arena was supposed to be built to be the home of the Chicago Cougars of the WHA. But the team and league folded before construction started. When it finally got built it didn't have the refrigeration for ice. That was added to accommodate the Wolves.

As the new year approaches (and a new baseball season), how about the MLB Spring Training stadiums (Cactus & Grapefruit Leagues)?

damn. the condors have a nice arena and you didn’t say anything about it 😭

Another cool fact about the UW Milwaukee Panther arena, was the old MECCA where the Milwaukee Bucks started playing.

Rockford’s seats are blue and yellow as a nod to the Swedish population of the City. The seats used to be a felt orange color when the arena open.

It's probably been mentioned but the Hartford arena was also home to the NHL's Hartford Whalers who became the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes.

Can you do the ECHL next please

I would like to see stadiums from the Southern Professional Hockey League

Any chance you could do Major League Rugby (MLR)?

I will let your pronunciation of Ad-uh-RON-dack slide since you followed it up with a steamed hams reference.

Can you please do a video of the ECHL if you haven’t yet it’s double A hockey under the AHL

0:22 Total mortgage arena, Bridgeport, CT 0:59 Bojangles Coliseum, Charlotte, NC 1:40 XL Center, HartFord, CT 2:20 Giant Center, Hershey, PA 3:01 PPL Center, Allentown, PA 3:35 Amica Mutual Pavilion, Providence RI 4:05 MassMutual Center, Springfield, MA 4:35 Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza, Wilkes-Barre Township, PA 5:15 CAA Arena, Belleville, Ontario 5:57 Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland, OH 6:32 Place Bell, Laval, Quebec 7:10 Blue Cross Arena, Rochester, NY 7:55 Upstate Medical University Arena, Syracuse, NY 8:33 Coca Cola Coliseum Toronto, Ontario 9:12 AdinRock Bank Center, Utica, NY 9:48 Allstate Arena Rosemont, IL 10:25 Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI 11:03 Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, IA 11:45 Canada Life Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12:23 UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, Milwaukee, WI 13:06 BMO Center, Rockford, IL 13:50 H-E-B Center at Cedar Park, Cedar Park, TX 14:28 Abbotsford Centre, Abbotsford, British Columbia 15:00 Mechanics Bank Arena, Bakersfield, CA 15:40 Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta 16:33 Acrisure arena, Palma Desert, CA 17:06 Budweiser Events Center, Loveland, CO 17:39 Dollar Loan Center, Henderson, NV 18:18 Toyota Arena, Ontario, CA 19:27 Tech CU Arena, San Jose, CA 20:06 Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, AZ ENJOY!

“Good luck without any Sri Lankans on your team”

Do you plan on doing the ones for the ECHL as well? That league is one step below the AHL. In the league's present form, it looks like all but four NHL teams have affiliates there.

I’ve been to a number of these arenas myself including, Providence, Springfield(most frequent)go Thunderbirds!Hartford (second most) Hershey, and Bridgeport. I bet you can guess my geographical area lol.

The tier system in hockey is kind of a mishmash of leagues, but there are some junior leagues in Canada that have some cool mid size arenas such as the OHL, WHL, QMJHL, and people were talking about the ECHL so I'm assuming that that might be one of them too.

Please check out The ECHL next

Pechanga Arena (San Diego Sports Arena) also used to be the home of the San Diego Rockets, now of Houston

I really enjoy watching these, how do you get the drone like movement in google earth?

Syracuse Onondaga County War Memorial is the oldest building In professional hockey. At one time the only older buildings were the Hershey Arena, now gone, and Montreal.

I watched this entire video to hear him talk about the condors. Thanks for that :(

ECHL teams next?

You should look into the ECHL arenas next. There’s some really good ones (Huntington Center being my favorite).

I played hockey in both the ppl and giant center

I ve been to the arena in Bridgeport Connecticut for wwe events and that place is great for wrestling and worked at what used to be harbor yard where it’s now the amphitheater in 2000 when the baseball team the Bridgeport bluefish was there.

Can you do the ECHL teams?