BREAKING: Mooseheads Home Arena Gets New Name

The Halifax Metro Centre is no more. The naming rights of the 35 year old arena have been sold to Scotiabank for a reportedly 6.5 million dollars. It will now be called the Scotiabank Centre according to the press conference that was held on the covered up ice during lunch hour on Wednesday.

It will take some getting used to the new name that will be in the downtown core for at least 10 years. I always liked that our arenas were not attached to big companies as is the case for the Eastlink Centre in PEI and Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary but times are changing in Halifax and this is one example of that.

The first time your Halifax Mooseheads will play in the renamed arena will be September 12 at their 2014-15 season home opener. The selling of the rights to Scotiabank will allow the arena to get new seating, better bathrooms and other improvements. When those will happen is not yet known.

I very much agree with this:

Hit up the comments below and let me know what you think of the new name. I personally have mixed feelings about it.