Prudential Center - The official USRT venue profile now up

January 14th, 2008 Hockey, NHL venues, USRT

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We are proud to unveil our venue profile and thumbnailed photo array for the Prudential Center, the new home of the NHL New Jersey Devils. You can read our entire report here.

We gave “The Rock” a total score of 64 points out of 100, good enough for 10th place in our NHL venue rankings. Here is the breakdown for each category:

Architecture 8
Concessions/Team Store 7
Scoreboard/Electronics 6
Ushers 8
Fan Support 2.5
Location/Neighborhood 3
Banners/History 8.5
In Game Entertainment 7
Concourses/Fan Comfort 9
Bonus: 5

We welcome your input and critique.

And once again, we claim bragging rights: we have attended a home game of each of the 122 teams in the four major sports in their current and active venues!

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4 Responses to “Prudential Center - The official USRT venue profile now up”

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    Kevin Pritchard Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    It ain’t bragging if ya’ done it, boys!

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    wcperspective Says:
    January 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Love the rankings. Time to drop Arco Arena a few notches- sell-out streak is over and the bandwagon fans and cowbells have gone into hiding. Drop the score five points for every year that a replacement arena isn’t finalized. :)

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    Peter Farrell Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    wcp, that’s somewhat surprising about the sellout streak, I distinctly remember the Kings sellout the joint during many of those lean years…seemed like they were fans through thick and thin.

    New arena….NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I love Arco, that place can make some noise especially when the fans pound their feet on the wooden floors in the seating bowl.

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    wcp Says:
    January 23rd, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    You think city politics is bad in Bflo, you haven’t seen the circus that is Sacramento. Since the State doesn’t get into the arena financing business, it is up to the owners or the host community to pony up. Arco lacks the boxes and premium seating that owners love. The Maloofs are only willing to put up $100 mil or so. An arena measure failed a year ago- the new plan is to build a facility at Cal Expo (where the State fair is held). There is a governing body there with bonding power which could float bonds. Revenues to pay off the bond would be from a mix of sources but primarily from real estate adjacent to an arena that would be developed. Plans are still being flushed out.

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