We get a healthy dose of the Davos Arena here in Canada around Christmas/New Year as the Davos hosts the Spengler Cup. It's an invitation hockey tourney first held in 1923. Canadians from Euro leagues and the American Hockey League form a Team Canada roster that participates in the tourney. They passed Davos for most titles (16) in 2019.
Yeah, HC Davos and Team Canada host a yearly invitational tournament at the end of each year, it was originally to rebuild European teams after the first World War, mostly German and British, but later has become just a fun little tournament to celebrate a year of hockey. The first ever champions were from Britain 100 years ago and the top performing teams are HC Davos and Team Canada (15 for Davos, 16 for Canada)
I can assure you it is. Every arena has dedicated bars and ameneties for each side, according to capacity and volume of space. You see the rink quiet well anywhere you go, maybe in Bern the gigantic stairs up the standings are a whole training exercise, but in any of these places you feel well accomodated and focused on the sport. Also, the newly renovated arenas still have you feeling the vintage within the walls. The warmest (by crowd) are Lugano, Ambrì, Bern (when they score damn loud), Davos and Ilfis; others are also great but that goes depending on the voice the fans give throughout the game. The full stadium chants experience is between Ambri and Lugano, expecially the Derby…. That game gets loud loud!
So far i've been to Bern, Zug, Rapperswil and the old Ambri arena. Bern was defininitely one of the most impressiv arenas i've ever been to. The Rapperswil arena is pretty cool with it's wooden interior. But the city is the true highlight, just spectacular. The arena in Zug is pretty modern and very black. Black walls, black roof, black everything. The old Ambri arena was an iconic old hockey barn and had one of the most intimidating atmospheres in the world. The guest sector made you feel like you were in prison.
Look forward to your videos!! Did you notice how many of these arenas have installed solar panels on their roofs!! A good idea!! Think that could be a subject of a future video(s). How many facilities have installed solar panels or wind turbines.
How do people get to those "isolated" arenas? By rail. Look up a map of their network. You don't need to own a car in that country, you can get anywhere.
You should do all the chl (Canadian hockey league) arenas. There’s 3 different leagues. The whl, the ohl, and the qmjhl. There’s over 90 arenas and there are some super nice ones.
Next do the British Elite Ice Hockey League. Which is unique in that it’s the ONLY professional sports league in the UK to feature clubs from all four constituent countries, England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.
Please please please do ice hockey arenas from the QMJHL, OHL & WHL! We have some really nice arenas for our junior teams like Halifax, Moncton, Quebec City, London & Saskatoon.
These are fantastic! I like these better than the NHL arenas to be honest. They look like much more fun to watch a game. Raiffeisen Arena, PostFinance Arena, Eisstadion Davos and Ilfis Stadium are the best!
yes but it looks awesome. I discovered hockey terraces on the Wide World of Stadiums video of Munich the other day. Looks like the best way to watch hockey to me.
