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Hurricanes’ First Offseason Acquisition? New HD Scoreboard For RBC Center

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The RBC Center's new scoreboard could look like the four-sided, high-definition scoreboard (minus the top ribbon boards) that was put in HP Pavilion, home of the San Jose Sharks.

The Carolina Hurricanes are already looking ahead to next season, and fans at the RBC Center will have something new to look up to: a state-of-the-art scoreboard. 

In the May issue of The Wolfpacker, a publication that covers NC State sports, vice president and general manager of the RBC Center Dave Olsen confirmed that the arena would be installing a new scoreboard. The new board will be four-sided — as compared to the current eight-sided one — and "everything is HD and LED," Olsen told The Wolfpacker. Based on what was said before today's end-of-season press conferences, Bubba is reporting the new board installation will begin on June 1 and will be completed about June 18.

The scoreboard will be close in size to the current one — so it can fit in the current support structure — but the panels will be about six feet wider than the current one.

The Wolfpacker reported that the scoreboard cost $1.9 million and required another $2.3 million in expenses for equipment to operate it. It will also be used for NC State basketball games.

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Ric Flair is going to need it- I have a feeling he will be pretty busy woooooing next year.

by PittsburghCaniac on May 28, 2009 4:23 PM EDT reply actions  

Let hope so.
Weird thing is my parents were just complaining about the Jumbo tron a couple days ago. Good timing

by McCoy17 on May 28, 2009 4:36 PM EDT reply actions  

Very cool...

It was a bit sad to see the same graphics we’ve been seeing since they moved in.

by MichaelProcton on May 28, 2009 5:19 PM EDT reply actions  

I’ve been waiting for this for a while. I just really hope do something cool to decorate the top of it (see the Bobcats videoboard for an example) to give it a little local flavor and make it so it doesn’t look so ugly from the upper deck.

-Jonathan Hawkins
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by DaleCooper on May 28, 2009 5:33 PM EDT reply actions  

(see the Bobcats videoboard for an example)

There it is folks, the first time ever that the Bobcats have been used as a positive example.

by Iggy Reilly on May 28, 2009 5:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

LOL. That’s exactly what I said on another board.

-Jonathan Hawkins
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by DaleCooper on May 28, 2009 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

not too fast.
they made a run for the playoffs this year.
almost made it last second

by chrisj on May 28, 2009 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

When making the playoffs still means a losing record, I really am not that impressed.

by Iggy Reilly on May 28, 2009 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

Please...

They were blowing games to Milwaukee and Minnesota during that “run.”

by MichaelProcton on May 28, 2009 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

during a new jersey game i was sitting next to a guy from TSN and he was saying he thought we had one of the worst displays for such a nice building (he did have a lot of good things to say though,lol)

I just forwarded this to him.

I never even thought that it was all that bad, but I am a homer so……….

by CarolinaCanes on May 28, 2009 6:58 PM EDT reply actions  

CanesVision HD blog

Not sure if this was already posted elsewhere (sorry if it’s somewhere obvious and I missed it), but CanesVision has a blog where you can track the progress of the jumbotron.

http://canesvision-hd.blogspot.com/

by LTD on May 28, 2009 7:14 PM EDT reply actions  

thanks for the link

This would be the infamous Goober Den?

(I learned this month that I shouldn’t believe much of I read in a Boston newspaper)

by hockeymomof2 on May 28, 2009 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

New Board

This is a Carolina Hurricane, N.C. State Board. Not a Funky Bobcat Board. I mean what have the Bobcat’s accomplished? Nothing but loose. Even before there ever was a Bobcat/Hornet’s Board all they did was loose. So what do we even need to bring the looser’s up for.

robert

by BOOBY on May 31, 2009 12:55 PM EDT reply actions  

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