"It's spacious, which we like," Rod Brind'Amour chimed in with when asked of his initial thoughts. "[There's] a lot of room. Interesting little ice thing, a little European flare with the open back end. It should be nice, it's brand new, right? It's great."
Perhaps nobody knows the lay of the land better than the young man who has been the talk of the club for the last several weeks now though, Seth Jarvis.
Having played his junior hockey just 150 miles south on I-5, the 19-year-old has played many games in the Emerald City, albeit at the ShoWare Center, home of the Western Hockey League's Seattle Thunderbirds. One of the strongest rivalries in all of junior hockey (Portland and Seattle), Jarvis shared his first thoughts of the building that his new team will play in tomorrow, but also offered a fantastic response, remaining faithful to the city where his Pacific Northwest ties are.
"This facility is amazing. I love it up here, I felt right at home right when I got off the plane. I'd seen pictures [of the rink] and it's great. It's not quite Veterans Memorial Coliseum [home of the Portland Winterhawks], but it's close," he concluded with, laughingly.
Carolina will have its final 10 p.m. EST puck drop of the trip tomorrow night when they take on the Kraken.
