The best NHL dressing rooms - and those most in need of a facelift

[Figgy44]

The ceiling looks like someones rec room in need of major updating. Also, the ceiling fans make it look extra bad! Also they didn't get their own logo right, the carpet guy had one job!

I only noticed it when you pointed it out, but to clarify, are you talking about what looks like a really bad looking rug on the floor? Or the actual carpet underneath it?

That rug is hilariously bad. Unless somehow it's upside down?

 

[Oddbob]

I only noticed it when you pointed it out, but to clarify, are you talking about what looks like a really bad looking rug on the floor? Or the actual carpet underneath it?

That rug is hilariously bad. Unless somehow it's upside down?

I was talking about the logo rug, but both are bad.

 

[MuckOG]

It's stupid that they even put the logo on the rug. Makes the dressing room all the much smaller because you can't walk over it. Seems much smarter to put it on the ceiling as the new trend seems to be.

 

[Eisen]

As long as their is space for everyone to change, it's good. If not, it's bad.

 

[Eisen]

It's stupid that they even put the logo on the rug. Makes the dressing room all the much smaller because you can't walk over it. Seems much smarter to put it on the ceiling as the new trend seems to be.

You can't walk over the rug?

 

[Bring Bak Damphousse]

You can't walk over the rug?

Cant walk over the logo

 

[TheNeutralPresident]

I can't get over just how cramped some of the older and even renovated rooms look, especially Vegas in such a new rink. Oilers seem to be the gold standard but really impressed with what the Canucks and Sabres did given their arena age.

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Better view of the Avalanche. its pretty blah. Vegas's was shockingly bad for how new that arena is.

 

[MuckOG]

The Wild have a better dressing room at their practice facility than they do at the Xcel. But I think I read that they were renovating that dressing room as well.

 

[beowulf]

So are we supposed to conclude that round > square?

Oval?

 

[Figgy44]

You can't walk over the rug?

Jets upset with Brock Lesnar for stepping on their logo.

Stepping on the logo is considered a cardinal sin.

 

[Hockeyfan2390]

Jets upset with Brock Lesnar for stepping on their logo.

Stepping on the logo is considered a cardinal sin.

I see that and raise you:

Looks like Chicago recently renovated their dressing room at United Center, which was way overdue.

Before:

After:

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Cant walk over the logo

Which is why it's so stupid that teams put the logo on the floor of the locker room and essentially turn it into a game of hot lava.

"Let's make a nice big locker room and then have a section in the middle that no one is supposed to walk on"

 

[ItWasJustified]

?? what makes them bad?

Looks bad.

 

[Blue Ox]

The Wild have a better dressing room at their practice facility than they do at the Xcel. But I think I read that they were renovating that dressing room as well.

I think it's pretty cool that the ice rink is on the 5th floor of the building.

 

[HolyCrap]

I like the idea of the logo all light up on the ceiling. Would having it light up a hologram logo onto floor be alright to step on? I have no clue.

 

[BCNate]

Scrolling through here, I think Oilers looks the best, Flames the worst, and Vegas the most disappointing.

 

[njdevils1982]

Cool idea, I'd also like to see the worst/best visitor's locker rooms.

pens visitors room from the igloo was a disaster

 

[Woodrow]

Meanwhile visitors rooms look something like this.

 

[LeighDx59]

Jets upset with Brock Lesnar for stepping on their logo.

Stepping on the logo is considered a cardinal sin.

I love that it was Brock Lesnar who did it though he seemed pretty alright once they kinda told him about it, seemed to take it nicely.

 

[HisIceness]

Carolina for me is a mix between plain and looking good.

The Canes locker room I don't think has ever had any major changes other than the pictures on the wall. Perhaps Dundon addresses this in the future, kind of surprised he hasn't yet. I have zero clue what the visiting locker room looks like but I've read it "could use an upgrade". I didn't quite realize how small NHL locker rooms in general were until I looked at this thread.

I think it was the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football coach that painted the visiting locker room walls pink. At least NHL teams don't have to look at pink walls.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

Call me a biased Leafs fan but I think their dressing room is very nice.

You're a biased Leafs fan...

(You asked for it, didn't you ?)

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Meanwhile visitors rooms look something like this.

Looks like a prison cell, but slightly bigger

 

[NotNotALeafsFan]

The pens dressing room isn't the nicest one in the league. but it's not ugly either. Pretty spacious and is showcased pretty well on the NHL 24/7 HBO series from 2011

Do you know why they left the stalls empty in the middle? It is a very clean look.

 

[grapes55]

Do you know why they left the stalls empty in the middle? It is a very clean look.

Usually the dressing rooms have extra stalls for healthy scratches, more space etc.