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Bell Centre: the Habs have worked on a standing area for fans (like at the Forum)
Félix Forget
Bell Centre: the Habs have worked on a standing area for fans (like at the Forum)
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Last night, the new episode of the series La reconstruction was made available on the Crave platform. The episode focuses a lot on the Habs' trip over the holidays, but also on life in the AHL.Jakub Dobes, Kirby Dach and Logan Mailloux are all featured.However, the episode also features a meeting between Geoff Molson and France Margaret Bélanger, during which the latter presents a new concept for the Bell Centre: a standing area for fans,similar to what was found at the Forum back in the day.

This all happens around the 15-minute mark of the episode, for those interested.

What we understand, listening to the episode, is that we're talking about a space that could accommodate between 60 and 100 people and would be located above the press gallery (the view of the ice is obstructed in some places for this reason). We can see how far we'd have to travel to get there… and that's something.But what's also interesting is that the meeting seems to be taking place over the holidays… and when the owner asks if it would be ready for next season, the answer is yes, given that there's little work to be done.Will the space be ready in October? Normally, yes… unless the project has since been abandoned. But at the same time, wouldn't it be strange for the club to have kept that sequence in the documentary if they'd abandoned the project? Because in the episode, there's never any mention of the project falling through (although in reality, it could come in a future episode).So we'll see how it all pans out over the next few weeks, but there may be a new fan space at the Bell Centre for next season.At least, it was considered and presented in a documentary produced by the club.

'Overtime'

– Luka Doncic and Micah Parsons have left, but Mikko Rantanen hasn't, hehe.

– I like it.

– Can you believe it?

– Makes sense. Lane Hutson is probably in the same boat.

– Whew.

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