Penguins Bid for Next Year's All-Star Weekend
Mar 19, 2010
The Pittsburgh Penguins have submitted a bid to host the 2010-11 NHL All-Star Weekend for the inaugural season of the Consol Energy Center.
By Sam Kasan
The Pittsburgh Penguins have submitted a bid to host the 2010-11 NHL All-Star Weekend for the inaugural season of the Consol Energy Center, the team announced Tuesday.
The new, state-of-the-art arena will open for the start of the 2010-11 NHL season.
Consol Energy Center already has been selected to host the first and second rounds of the 2012 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, and Robert Morris and VisitPittsburgh will submit a bid on Monday for the 2013 or 2014 NCAA Frozen Four.
"The new Consol Energy Center will give us the opportunity to bring many such events to Pittsburgh," Penguins president David Morehouse said. "We think it can help make Pittsburgh a destination for big national and regional events."
The Penguins have not hosted the NHL All-Star Weekend since 1990.
"We’re excited by the opportunity to bid for the 2010-11 NHL All-Star weekend and believe we have made a strong proposal to the NHL," Morehouse said.
Now this would be something that I would not want to miss.
This has been awarded to Carolina. It was announced Thursday before the Hurricanes last home game. It will be played at the RBC Center here in Raleigh. (20 minutes from my house!) I already have my name in for tickets. I can't wait for this!
If anybody gets tickets and makes the trip, let me know.
f.sciarrillo wrote:Why do they always ruin my hopes?
i'm sure it's in the works since there's a new arena now. they had the all-star weekend at the mellon arena back in 1990. i would've loved to see lemieux rip it up in that game!
