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The home of the minnesota north stars for there entire stay in the NHL was the met center. the met center was built next to the former home of the minnesota twins the metropolitan stadium.its capacity for hockey was around 15,000. the WHA minnesota fighting saints used the met center in 1972 before moving to the saint paul civic center.the met center was built in 1967 and was torn down in 1995.when the arena was demolished with explosives all of the arena did not come down.to finish the demolition job they tore down the met the old fashion way with the wrecking ball. the met was located next to the mall of america, the baseball stadium for the twins that was next door was torn down around 1985.

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Here is a photo that i took in 1987 on my only visit to the met to see detroit play the minnesota north stars.

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Here is a outside shot of the met in 1987.

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Here is another photo showing the met center that i took in 1987.

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Here is another photo that i took of the met center in 1987 of the inside. this is not the greatest photo.

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Here is a photo of the met center taken in 1984 before the demolition of the former home of the minnesota twins old metropolitan stadium.when i was there in 1987 all that was left of the baseball stadium was a hole in the ground.

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Thanks for posting those!!!

I've been looking for anything Met Center related...

Kudos.

Mark

canadiancreed

Man this looks liek the area that the Corel Centre was stuck in when it was built. Why they dont' put more stadiums downtown I'll enver know. That looks like they're playing in fricken Duluth