It’s hard to love anything more than Canadians love hockey.
The hardy residents of Winnipeg certainly proved that Monday night when their beloved Jets took on the Anaheim Ducks at MTS Centre. It was the first Stanley Cup playoff game in Winnipeg since 1996, and the team’s first playoff appearance since it moved north from Atlanta in 2011.
That’s a lot of history in the making, and Winnipegians weren’t about to miss it. Here’s a look at some Winnipeg street webcams at 8:07 p.m. local time (the game started at 8 p.m.).
So, yeah. The Jets basically turned a city with more than 600,000 residents into a ghost town.
While all was quiet on Winnipeg’s streets, it was quite the opposite inside MTS Centre, where fans went all-in with a “Whiteout.”
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According to CBC Sports, the crowd noise after that goal from Lee Stempniak registered at 124 decibels, just shy of the 142.2-decibel record set by fans at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium, which has roughly 65,000 more seats. To put that in perspective, MTS Centre holds just a little more than 15,000 fans.
Unfortunately, the raucous crowd literally was silenced when the Ducks’ Rickard Rakell scored in overtime to give Anaheim a 5-4 win and 3-0 series lead.
Here’s hoping the Jets can win Game 4 and give their awesome fans something to cheer about.
Photos via SB Nation
