![]() Sault fans haven't changed either, they are still among the league's smartest and most knowledgeable supportive of their team and welcoming of visitors from the far south. The game presentation is good too - the announcer is very good and the sound isn't too loud. In addition, windows are everywhere in the concourse - most hockey rinks are dark and shut the outside out, but in the Sault, it would appear that a day game would be lit by sunlight as much as by arena lights. The city deserves major points for saving them. ![]() The art moderne angel sculpture, stained glass windows, and war flags from the Memorial Gardens that overlooked the ice have been saved and hung in a corresponding place in the new building. Once you find your seats and take a look around, a few more things stand out. There are also, refreshingly, enough washrooms for a new building and the other facilities seem to be more than adequate. The Hounds have taken the old-school concept of the souvenir stand but run with it, making it huge and filling it with quality merchandise, which is a huge plus. The Pound sells lots of interesting-looking souvenirs and is one of the league's best in terms of quality of merchandise. There is no restaurant - where the restaurant is in Sarnia and Guelph, there instead is a long souvenir booth, the Hound Pound. However, there are forces at work in the Sault that make the GFL Memorial Gardens stand out. All three arenas feature a similar number of seats, an open top concourse overlooking the seating bowl, and layout so similar that a Guelph native could walk it with his eyes shut on first visit and not bump into anything. You are in the heart of the rink before you know it, in the middle of a wide, sweeping concourse overlooking a sea of bright red seats.Īt first glance the Gardens looks much like the standard generic OHL clone rink, with little to make it stand out from its brothers in Sarnia, Guelph, and so on. ![]() The main entrance is beyond the ticket booths, and much like in Sarnia, there is little separating the ticket windows from the arena concourse. Once finally inside, there are a few ticket booths along one wall and the old plaques commemorating the war dead, saved from the Memorial Gardens, are hung proudly on the opposite wall. The short walk from car to lobby is one of the OHL's coldest, and on January gamenights the lobby's warmth can't come quickly enough. Mere feet away next door, the GFL Memorial Gardens stands, resplendent and shiny and new in bright silver cladding, brown brick, and dark windows. Instead of overlooking the arena to which it was originally connected, though, it now overlooks a plaza and a parking lot. However, the building's signature Memorial Tower, built to commemorate the dead of past wars, was saved and refurbished, and its beacon still is lit on gamenights, shining blood red in the winter night. When the art moderne masterpiece Sault Memorial Gardens was demolished over the summer of 2006, one of Ontario's most unique and beautiful arenas was lost. For most of the teams in the Sault's division, getting up there involves a trip through Michigan up I-75, driving up through endless forest and crossing over the mighty Mackinac Bridge. The Greyhounds are a three hour drive from their nearest rivals in Sudbury, and have some truly epic travels during a season, including a nine-plus hour trek to Ottawa on mostly two-lane highways, or a nine-plus hour trek to Erie passing through three US states. The main difference is the type of technology wielded by each variant and the primary colors of their outfit.While the Ontario Hockey League can't claim to hold a candle to the WHL or QMJHL in terms of the distances travelled during a season by its teams, there are still some remote frontiers in the league, and from my home in London, no team is farther away than Sault Ste. All of them take a slightly different spin on the wolf-like Little Legend. Fenroar gets five new skins: Sodapop Fenroar, Afterburner Fenroar, Pulsefire Fenroar, Hextech Fenroar, and Bounty Hunter Fenroar. Several little legends get new incarnations in the set. Other new Little Legend additions to Neon Nights include the Hot Rod Lightcharger, a turbo-charged Lightcharger with cybernetic limbs, and a floating jet pack that resembles Kai’Sa’s suit. The star of the show is PROJECT Abyssia, a black and neon pink take on Abyssia, complete with a cyberpunk blade and edgy helmet. New variants of a variety of Tacticians will be available through the same battle pass, the G&G Pass II+. Little Legends have proven to be an excellent substitution for League of Legends’ champion skins, allowing Riot to monetize the auto battler while giving fans personal expression through the varied avatars.
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