When I was growing up, it was the "Civic Arena" or "the Igloo." My dad took me to hockey games there when it first opened (it was the Pittsburgh Hornets back then). I was too young to go see The Beatles in 1964, but I caught a bunch of other acts there later in the decade: Janis Joplin, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and ... oh, yeah (full disclosure) The Monkees (I was so much younger then).
Tonight, the 2009 championship Penguins lost their bid to move on to the 2010 NHL Eastern Conference Stanley Cup finals, and so have played their last game in the Igloo, which is being retired this year. To everything there is a season ...
Tonight, the 2009 championship Penguins lost their bid to move on to the 2010 NHL Eastern Conference Stanley Cup finals, and so have played their last game in the Igloo, which is being retired this year. To everything there is a season ...
