Utah Delta Center Claiming "Unobstructed" Seats

[EdJovanovski]

Move them back to Arizona

 

[EXTRAS]

There are only 10,000 seats in the building?

 

[Legionnaire11]

The fact nobody is suprised says alot about the league haha

I'm not surprised because I thought this was already known information when the relocation was announced.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

I'm not surprised because I thought this was already known information when the relocation was announced.

It was.

 

[Torontonian]

Well, someone is going to be upset when they purchase and sit in those spots. Did Smith and co say it's going to take 3 years of renos for them to have proper seating for the NHL?

 

[lakeshirts37]

This is still better than Mullet - everyone relax

 

[CanMerc]

Thinks it’s bad now…wait till those seats are full of fans and your view is obstructed more…lol
This is pretty much normal, so I don’t see any issues

 

[a mangy Meowth]

This is still better than Mullet - everyone relax

Wow you set the bar so high

 

[NVious]

This sort of nonsense would never happen in Hamilton.

#DoTheRightThingBettman

 

[RogerRoger]

This sort of nonsense would never happen in Hamilton.

#DoTheRightThingBettman

A team in Bermuda would be amazing.

 

[viper0220]

Well, someone is going to be upset when they purchase and sit in those spots. Did Smith and co say it's going to take 3 years of renos for them to have proper seating for the NHL?

I thought they were getting a new arena.

Am I crazy? Utah released the ticket prices for the upcoming season and they are claiming there are 10,000 unobstructed seats. Here are some pictures that they claim are unobstructed. Are these unobstructed? In my opinion you can't see the near boards and that makes them obstructed.
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I don’t think Bettman and company thought this through, when they moved the team.

 

[NYRfan85]

It's much better to play where you some obstructed seats and 10,000 unobstructed seats at a major league venue than to play at a college venue with only 5,000 good seats.

 

[viper0220]

Well, someone is going to be upset when they purchase and sit in those spots. Did Smith and co say it's going to take 3 years of renos for them to have proper seating for the NHL?

Someone should know what they are paying for.

 

[Satan]

move the team back to @Mulletman arena

 

[Neutrinos]

The Utah Obstructors

 

[a mangy Meowth]

It's much better to play where you some obstructed seats and 10,000 unobstructed seats at a major league venue than to play at a college venue with only 5,000 good seats.

"It's much better to just have to take a bite of a turd sandwich rather than eat the whole thing"

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Better than a college arena. Shocking a modern arena would be poorly designed however.

 

[Hasbro]

Bad seating pretty on brand with the arena sponsor.

 

[KeydGV21]

Granted it was built in 1905 but Fulham FC in London only considers a seat obstructed if the view of the goal is blocked by the support beam…

If they are using that definition, AND ARE CLEAR ABOUT THAT, I see no problem with this…

 

[CanadienShark]

There is a political joke to be made here, but it'll get deleted.

 

[JianYang]

Seats look pretty steep.

I think delta center is known to get pretty loud too.

Nice to add a non cookie cutter rink into the nhl catalogue.... although I suppose we lost one in the mullett too

 

[jetsmooseice]

cursed franchise

 

[BKarchitect]

Kind of annoying the team got moved into another situation where the current arena setup is less than ideal and it now appears that the entire “but they are building them a brand new arena as well” has now turned into “major renovations to the Delta Center for the future”.

The franchise can ride the high of newly-minted excitement in the community and the bottom line is Ryan Smith paid the money to make the NHL happy…but this was never a “the new Utah franchise is moving into a ready made dream arena” situation. Older facility, smaller facility, tons of obstructed seats…the bottom line is the money Ryan Smith paid and that this isn’t a college arena (and that there is some plan for a future facility that is green-lit, albeit getting valued engineered at every turn it seems).

 

[BobRossColton]

Will they have any ice issues with how it seems to be crammed in there?

 

[TD Charlie]

It's not a terribly disruptive obstruction, but it's definitely still an obstructed view seat IMO. A whole mess of seats like that too.

The worst obstructed view seats I've seen that are still being used today are in Toronto. They have seats that block almost a quarter of the ice, including one of the nets. It's not a ton of seats like that, but the level of obstruction is gross