Ottawa Senators LeBreton Arena | 11 Acres | In Planning

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Originally Posted by phil235

I'm not sure how great a venue the arena will be for trade shows. Maybe political conventions or things like that. Something around 150 events a year is a pretty reasonable goal though. Even the MTS Centre in Winnipeg is well over 100.

The Sens alone account for more like 50+ dates when you account for pre-season games, skills competition, watch parties, coaching clinics and season ticketholder events. Add in playoff games and you are higher. 16-18 games for the Charge and 10 for the Black Bears, plus maybe 15 more for annual events like the Belleville Sens, Globetrotters, Disney on Ice, monster trucks, bull riding, Capital Hoops etc. You're approaching 100 dates just looking at regular events.

According to concertarchives, the average number of concerts per year at the CTC has been in the 25-30 range over the last decade or so. The new arena should be more versatile for concerts just by virtue of it being more modern, and mid-sized concerts that might have gone to Lansdowne are more likely to go to a downtown rink than Kanata.

Getting to 150 will depend on their ability to attract special events like the Mem Cup, World Juniors, Final 8, Junos etc. That will definitely happen a lot when the arena is new, but the trick will be sustaining the pace.

You have more or less listed events that already go to the CTC. What are the types of activities that would be new for a downtown arena? I don’t think there are many arenas used 150 nights a year unless they have a basketball team.