Lightning To Get New "Dallas Cowboysesque" Scoreboard

[Billy Mays Here]

Originally Posted by Grillinnap

Wildfan, I asked you this in the past and you didn't answer. Are those screens not in HD? Maybe they are, they just aren't as big as the screens in other arenas.

Did you? Sorry if I didn't answer before but no, they are not HD. I like our scoreboard as is I just wish Leipold would get with the program and get an upgrade to HD because it's been a couple year overdue.

Originally Posted by syz

Two full teams will be lost if these things ever fall.

If I recall right I believe one of them did fall a couple years ago but the arena had nothing going on at the time so there was no one there for it to fall on. I wanna say it was in either Nashville or Tampa but I can't remember, I'll have to try and find an article on it.

[OilerNut]

Originally Posted by WILDhockeyfan

Did you? Sorry if I didn't answer before but no, they are not HD. I like our scoreboard as is I just wish Leipold would get with the program and get an upgrade to HD because it's been a couple year overdue.



If I recall right I believe one of them did fall a couple years ago but the arena had nothing going on at the time so there was no one there for it to fall on. I wanna say it was in either Nashville or Tampa but I can't remember, I'll have to try and find an article on it.

Buffalo.

[Billy Mays Here]

Originally Posted by OilerNut

Buffalo.

Thank you.

1996 though? Really? I could've sworn there was one that fell much more recent than that.

[LatvianTwist]

Originally Posted by WILDhockeyfan

Just thought I'd give this thread a bump after I saw this article:

http://www.aeros.com/news/news/?article_id=3493

It appears that the Toyota Center, where the NBA team Houston Rockets and AHL team Houston Aeros play, is unveiling a massive scoreboard similar to the Lightning's new one this weekend. It will be 8 feet wider than Tampa's at 58 feet wide and 5 feet shorter at 25 feet tall while the 2 side panels will be 25 feet by 25 feet.

Getting to play under that thing tomorrow thing. God, is it ****ing huge compared to the old one.

I don't like how the sides stick out though.

[Hockeyfan2390]

I thought they just got a new scoreboard like 4 years ago?

[Hockeyfan2390]

Originally Posted by WILDhockeyfan

The fact that the Xcel Energy Center, one of the nicest arenas in the league, has yet to upgrade to an HD scoreboard pisses me off.

Looks pretty good to me.

[TheDaysOf 04]

Originally Posted by Hockeyfan2390

I thought they just got a new scoreboard like 4 years ago?

The last one was put in 2007. The company that constructed the parts and installed it went out of business. We were having problems maintaining it so it needed to be replaced sooner or later.



As you can see there were already a couple of small rectangle sections of the screen that had died and couldn't be repaired.

[Carolinas Identity]

Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust

Was hoping it read "Dallas Cowboysesque Cheerleaders" and not "scoreboard."

Gotta go to Raleigh for that