Pros
- Great lighting
- Great ice surface
- Bright modern easy to read Scoreboard
- Clear, good quality sound system.
- Friendly staff
Cons
- Everything else. Seriously.
- Confusing, poorly marked and lit parking. Extremely dangerous parking across the street where you have to dodge 4 lanes of traffic on a dark road with no crosswalk or signals in sight.
- Basically unmarked entrance. It was marked something completely different and we weren't quite sure we were in the right spot. Just got lucky following some other people.
- The rest of the arena was much of the same. What food there was is hidden in the ends above the top of the stands.
- Speaking of food, what they had was the bare minimum and it was expensive. Over $20 for some Popcorn, Nachos and two drinks.
-Cramped seating. Had to basically wrestle the old guy beside me for enough space. Good thing I was beside my small wife so my arm and part of my leg took up her space. I'm not a huge guy either.
- Awful washrooms. Not sure if I just missed some bigger ones, but the only two I could find were cramped, dated, dirty and only had 3 urinals and 3 stalls. Not nearly enough for an arena this size.
- Hideous design and architecture. I thought when they spent $20,000,000 on it they might try to make the building look at least a little bit modern.
- While I wasn't in a suite, looking up I can't imagine why anyone would spend money on them. It looked like some cheap Canadian Tire furniture put together behind some regular seats.
While there are some small positives to the arena, I highly doubt I'll ever be catching a game there again. It was a thoroughly unenjoyable experience.