Maple Leafs Gardens ... 10 years later

[Musashii]

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL...64131-sun.html

From Gretzky's memories to Ballard's bunker, Maple Leafs Gardens Celebrates its 10th year anniversary since hosting its final NHL game. On Feb. 13, 1999, a night full of ceremony culminated with a 6-2 Maple Leafs loss to the Chicago Blackhawks ... MLG closed it doors one final time forever.

It is a drizzly grey February day in downtown Toronto and the one-time Countess of Carlton St., otherwise known as Maple Leaf Gardens, is looking as bleak as the weather.

Sheets of rain pelt against the doors, which are sealed shut. Streams of water trickle down the windows, which have been whited out so no one can see inside.

As a result, a decade after the building hosted its final NHL game, the Gardens, one of Toronto's most historic landmarks, has become little more than an empty shell, a vacant box.

But it has not been forgotten.

Wow how time just flies by, 10 years I can't believe it... I remember it like it was yesterday.

[NB Josh]

On a related note I noticed Raptors TV will have a special on 10 years of the ACC in a couple weeks.

I started watching hockey about the same The Gardens closed, so I don't really remember them. It is hard to believe it has been 10 years though.

[EmmEff]

Funny, I just drove by MLG yesterday... had no idea it was the 10th anniversary of the final game.