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Damn, we shouldn't have torn down the old Aud here and sold it to Baltimore and shipped it there piece by piece.

Probably could have gotten a couple of mill for it.
 

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I just heard on the radio that during the Baltimore Hockey Classic someone through a crab on to the ice. That is pretty hilarious. Did you see that Comeds? Do they even have a video board there?

Boss - love hearing "The Aud."
 

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I just heard on the radio that during the Baltimore Hockey Classic someone through a crab on to the ice. That is pretty hilarious. Did you see that Comeds? Do they even have a video board there?

Boss - love hearing "The Aud."

elo, I miss the old place but those stairs were REAL steep in the upper deck.
 

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elo, I miss the old place but those stairs were REAL steep in the upper deck.

Oh, no doubt. The old Capital Centre didn't even have an upper deck. I remember being scared as a kid of tumbling all the way down! Verizon is so much better. I do miss the decibel meter they had on the walls in Capital Centre. A light would start flashing when it hit like 90 or 100 or something.
 

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Oh, no doubt. The old Capital Centre didn't even have an upper deck. I remember being scared as a kid of tumbling all the way down! Verizon is so much better. I do miss the decibel meter they had on the walls in Capital Centre. A light would start flashing when it hit like 90 or 100 or something.

True story, at the Aud some dude got drunk and fell over the railing of the upper deck and landed right on top of a woman. Turns out the woman was the wife of one of our customers! She was pretty messed up and needed some surgery and PT and as usual the drunk guy just had a few scraps and shit.
 

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More of a Remoulade guy with crab cakes myself

Hello Mr Fancy Pants!

I just heard on the radio that during the Baltimore Hockey Classic someone through a crab on to the ice. That is pretty hilarious. Did you see that Comeds? Do they even have a video board there?

Boss - love hearing "The Aud."

I did not see the crab thrown. They do have a video board but it was just showing the game as well, no replays or anything. I'll post a few pictures later.
 

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elo, I miss the old place but those stairs were REAL steep in the upper deck.

Those things were scary as hell. And those crappy little triangular shaped handrails that guaranteed you'd have to let go at some point.

It's amazing there weren't more mishaps.
 

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Those things were scary as hell. And those crappy little triangular shaped handrails that guaranteed you'd have to let go at some point.

It's amazing there weren't more mishaps.

I know, shit if you stumbled near the top you were in a world of hurt because that was a long run.
 

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Where I played my Pee-Wee hockey was built in 1950. It had two sets of wooden bleachers and one locker room divided by a curtain. The concrete pad under the ice surface was poured onto sand and the cracks were so bad under the ice surface that you could actually see sand in the ice later in the season. There were holes in the roof big enough that occasionally I would be partially blinded. Yes. I lost pucks in the sun.

It would take millions in renovations to make the Baltimore Arena that nice.

And frozen crab cakes bounce terribly on rough ice surfaces.

I played in a place like that growing up too. The roof used to leak really bad, so there occasions where it would be raining or snowing out on the ice.

I remember that their zamboni used to break down all the time too. And the zamboni driver was terrible too. He'd miss huge chunks of the ice while re-surfacing, used to stop in place for so long that sections of the ice would melt from the exhaust heat or would be over scraped so that you'd end up with a huge dip in the ice.

Or one time when he actually ran into one of the goals. The goal post dug into the ice and created a goal post wide rut about an inch deep running all the way to the boards where the mangled goal was pressed up against the cracked boards.

Good times.
 

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What a view!

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Look at this view of the game projected on the big screen! Its almost like being there!

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If the pictures were bigger and a higher quality you all could play find Waldo, or find the person wearing the Canadiens striped pajama jersey.
 

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Awesome pics and zings, Comeds.

I hope your end wasn't advertised as "Caps Shoot Twice!" Can't believe you can't see the goal at all. :L
 

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Seats on the stage now? Do you have to be famous to sit there?
 
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