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Post by jimc on Apr 16, 2011 14:42:00 GMT -5
Curtis, I know many rinks (Chicago for one) started with the black netting, and it looked like you were watching a game form a tugboat. The white netting also had glare issues, but wasn't quite as bad. Any rink with the money to do so has now gone to the 'clear mesh' which is MUCH better live AND on TV.
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Post by Curtis on Apr 18, 2011 14:16:13 GMT -5
Right on Jim. We have clear mesh in Marmora ( no televised games ) and in Madoc arena in our area. If you put a season of watching hockey behind it, you do get used to it. The other new design arenas have the spectator seating above the dressing rooms with no mesh. Most do have it installed now at the ends to protect the building more than people. We have to, on occasion, raise the mesh for different events i.e skate club shows, floor concerts, as no one likes video taping through the mesh...cant blame them either. Remember the days when you didn't take your eye off the hockey game being played in fear of getting hit with a puck? The old Bowmanville Arena on Queen st back in the day had 2 inch vertical planks 4 feet high for boards, chain link fence at the ends. When you sat in the bleachers along the boards, sticks, pucks, players were in your lap most of the game...it was awesome. We only had a Jr C club, but it was pretty good, fast and local hockey. There was a local named Tom Simpson that played for the Oshawa Generals. The Gens would practice the odd time in Bowmanville and his shot was so hard he would put it through the chain link . Simpson played with guys like Peter Sullivan,Terry O'Reilly, Bob kelly, Rick Middleton, Steve Cardwell(had to throw that one in for fun) so it was awesome at the time to be able to cath these guys practicing in,at the time, OUR rink. I know, I know...times have changed ....and have they ever!!!
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Post by jimc on Apr 18, 2011 22:48:34 GMT -5
seems to me the advent of 'protective netting' wasn't too long after the advent of the cell phone...hmmmm
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Post by miklin on May 2, 2011 23:45:39 GMT -5
lol-agreed Jim. I've been to a ton of Hamilton Bulldogs games where teenage attendees have their faces buried in their phones, never watching the game. I'm sure that on the way home, they're watching a dvd in their parents mini van on the long trip back to Aldershot. God these people seem to be on short leashes
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