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Ottawa’s two major sports businesses — the Ottawa Senators and the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group — are working together to bring an outdoor NHL game to TD Place stadium in 2017.
Despite a longstanding corporate rivalry, the two organizations have teamed up in an effort to deliver what would be a spectacular double-header for local sports fans: a Grey Cup in late November 2017, followed weeks later by an outdoor NHL game between the Senators and Montreal Canadiens.
“We’re working with OSEG now,” Sens President Cyril Leeder said in an interview Friday. “Our guys are in touch with them and doing some planning.”
That planning revolves around the timing of the two major events, and the possibility of using temporary bleachers built for the Grey Cup game in a subsequent NHL game.
Google earth map with outdoor hockey rink superimposed on grounds of TD Place.
Knitting the two events together could bolster the chances of both winning league approvals since those depend, in part, on establishing sound business cases.
The National Hockey League and Canadian Football League have not yet announced the locations for their major 2017 festivities.
The NHL Winter Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in 2014.
OSEG CEO Bernie Ashe said the sports group wants to host both events at TD Place stadium and is making every effort to include the Senators in the planning process. “We’re doing everything we can to collaborate and make sure their needs will be met here,” he said.
Preliminary work, he said, shows that 16,000 temporary seats can be added to TD Place stadium — most of them in the east end zone.
TD Place stadium is among the smallest in the CFL with 24,000-seats, but the additional bleachers would bring its capacity to 40,000, which would make it viable as a site for an outdoor NHL game.
“We want their (the Senators) input on any kind of seating configuration,” Ashe said in an interview Friday. “We want to make sure we anticipate their needs, so yeah, we have certainly been talking to them.”
That kind of co-operation seemed unlikely last month when Senators owner Eugene Melynk told reporters that he did not want his team to play at TD Place and mused about an outdoor game played on the front lawn of Parliament Hill.
Google earth map with outdoor hockey rink superimposed on grounds.
But Ashe said he believes the stadium would be an ideal venue for an outdoor game, such as the Heritage Classic.
“We have demonstrated that we can handle the crowds — we have the transportation figured out — and we have a lot of amenities around here,” he said.
The Senators and OSEG are making concerted bids to land the big events to mark Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations.
Leeder said the Senators have an “unbelievable confluence” of anniversaries in 2017: the 25th anniversary of the club’s first modern game (Oct. 8, 1992); the 100th anniversary of the NHL’s opening night (Dec. 19, 1917) in Ottawa; and the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Stanley Cup.
A spokesman for Canada’s sixth governor general, Lord Stanley of Preston, announced the donation of the trophy at the former Russell House Hotel in downtown Ottawa on March 18, 1892.
“We’ve always said that if we’re going to host an outdoor game, we’d like a really good reason to host one because it’s a big effort: There’s a lot of moving parts involved in one of these games,” said Leeder.
It will be up to the NHL to decide the venue for any outdoor game since the league owns and operates the outdoor events.
Fans of the Washington Capitals and the Chicago Blackhawks watch their teams play during the third period of the Winter Classic outdoor NHL hockey game at Nationals Park in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015.
A spokesman for the NHL said the league is not yet ready to discuss possible locations for its 2017 outdoor games.
Melnyk and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson have raised the possibility of playing the outdoor game on the Hill or LeBreton Flats. But both logistics and economics weigh heavily against those options.
It took three months and “millions of dollars” to build a 42,000 seat temporary stadium for the 2009 U2 concert held on the grounds of Montreal’s Hippodrome, according to Pierre Lemieux, president of Trizart Alliance, the Montreal firm that managed the stadium’s design and construction.
“It’s a big project,” said Lemieux, “and it’s expensive.”
A large temporary stadium also went up in Vancouver in 2010. Empire Field, a 27,500 seat stadium, was built by the Swiss-based company, Nussli, in four months at a cost of $14.4 million. It played host to the CFL’s BC Lions and Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps FC for parts of two seasons before being dismantled.
Leeder conceded that Parliament Hill and LeBreton Flats present logistical difficulties, but he said the NHL may decide that the media coverage and promotional value of such an event is worth the extra trouble.
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Despite a longstanding corporate rivalry, the two organizations have teamed up in an effort to deliver what would be a spectacular double-header for local sports fans: a Grey Cup in late November 2017, followed weeks later by an outdoor NHL game between the Senators and Montreal Canadiens.
“We’re working with OSEG now,” Sens President Cyril Leeder said in an interview Friday. “Our guys are in touch with them and doing some planning.”
That planning revolves around the timing of the two major events, and the possibility of using temporary bleachers built for the Grey Cup game in a subsequent NHL game.
Google earth map with outdoor hockey rink superimposed on grounds of TD Place.
Knitting the two events together could bolster the chances of both winning league approvals since those depend, in part, on establishing sound business cases.
The National Hockey League and Canadian Football League have not yet announced the locations for their major 2017 festivities.
The NHL Winter Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings in 2014.
OSEG CEO Bernie Ashe said the sports group wants to host both events at TD Place stadium and is making every effort to include the Senators in the planning process. “We’re doing everything we can to collaborate and make sure their needs will be met here,” he said.
Preliminary work, he said, shows that 16,000 temporary seats can be added to TD Place stadium — most of them in the east end zone.
TD Place stadium is among the smallest in the CFL with 24,000-seats, but the additional bleachers would bring its capacity to 40,000, which would make it viable as a site for an outdoor NHL game.
“We want their (the Senators) input on any kind of seating configuration,” Ashe said in an interview Friday. “We want to make sure we anticipate their needs, so yeah, we have certainly been talking to them.”
That kind of co-operation seemed unlikely last month when Senators owner Eugene Melynk told reporters that he did not want his team to play at TD Place and mused about an outdoor game played on the front lawn of Parliament Hill.
Google earth map with outdoor hockey rink superimposed on grounds.
But Ashe said he believes the stadium would be an ideal venue for an outdoor game, such as the Heritage Classic.
“We have demonstrated that we can handle the crowds — we have the transportation figured out — and we have a lot of amenities around here,” he said.
The Senators and OSEG are making concerted bids to land the big events to mark Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations.
Leeder said the Senators have an “unbelievable confluence” of anniversaries in 2017: the 25th anniversary of the club’s first modern game (Oct. 8, 1992); the 100th anniversary of the NHL’s opening night (Dec. 19, 1917) in Ottawa; and the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Stanley Cup.
A spokesman for Canada’s sixth governor general, Lord Stanley of Preston, announced the donation of the trophy at the former Russell House Hotel in downtown Ottawa on March 18, 1892.
“We’ve always said that if we’re going to host an outdoor game, we’d like a really good reason to host one because it’s a big effort: There’s a lot of moving parts involved in one of these games,” said Leeder.
It will be up to the NHL to decide the venue for any outdoor game since the league owns and operates the outdoor events.
Fans of the Washington Capitals and the Chicago Blackhawks watch their teams play during the third period of the Winter Classic outdoor NHL hockey game at Nationals Park in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015.
A spokesman for the NHL said the league is not yet ready to discuss possible locations for its 2017 outdoor games.
Melnyk and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson have raised the possibility of playing the outdoor game on the Hill or LeBreton Flats. But both logistics and economics weigh heavily against those options.
It took three months and “millions of dollars” to build a 42,000 seat temporary stadium for the 2009 U2 concert held on the grounds of Montreal’s Hippodrome, according to Pierre Lemieux, president of Trizart Alliance, the Montreal firm that managed the stadium’s design and construction.
“It’s a big project,” said Lemieux, “and it’s expensive.”
A large temporary stadium also went up in Vancouver in 2010. Empire Field, a 27,500 seat stadium, was built by the Swiss-based company, Nussli, in four months at a cost of $14.4 million. It played host to the CFL’s BC Lions and Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps FC for parts of two seasons before being dismantled.
Leeder conceded that Parliament Hill and LeBreton Flats present logistical difficulties, but he said the NHL may decide that the media coverage and promotional value of such an event is worth the extra trouble.
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