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Scottrade Center (formerly Kiel Center and Savvis Center ) is a 19,150 seat arena located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, opened in 1994. It is the home of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League.

Scottrade Center is respected as one of the louder NHL arenas due to several factors including the 9-second foghorn blast after every Blues' goal followed by an organ rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In".

Besides ice hockey, the arena features a range of arena programming, including professional wrestling, concerts, ice shows, family shows, and other sporting events. It hosts approximately 175 events per year, drawing nearly two million guests annually. For the first quarter 2006, Scottrade Center ranked second among arenas in the United States and fourth worldwide in tickets sold. Industry trade publication Pollstar ranks Scottrade Center among the top ten arenas worldwide in tickets sold to non-team events.

The most people to ever attend an event at the Scottrade Center was 22,612, which happened twice during the 2007 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, known as Arch Madness .

The arena is frequently selected by the NCAA for championship events, and played host to the NCAA Frozen Four Hockey Championships in April 2007, and will host the NCAA Wrestling Championships in 2008 and 2009 and the NCAA Women’s Final Four Basketball Championships in 2009.

The building is operated by Sports Capital Partners, owner of the St. Louis Blues, under its chairman, Dave Checketts.

History

Kiel Center opened in 1994* to replace Kiel Auditorium, where the college basketball team had played, which was torn down in December 1992. The Blues had played in the St. Louis Arena prior to moving into Kiel Center in 1994. The building is currently known as Scottrade Center, after naming rights were sold in September 2006 to Scottrade (a local online investment firm and discount brokerage). The Kiel name still exists on the adjoining parking structure and the building cornerstone, as well as the closed Opera House on the north side of the property facing Market Street. Signs for the nearby MetroLink stop have been changed to read "Civic Center", since the building has been renamed three times in its short history.

(The Opera House portion of the building was not razed when the original Auditorium was but has remained closed since 1992, as members of Civic Progress, Inc. who promised to pay for the renovation of the Opera House have reneged on that promise, while opposing all outside efforts to achieve that renovation independently of themselves.)

Blues management decried its former naming-rights deal with tech company SAVVIS, as many of the monies paid out were in Savvis shares, then riding high. However, when the tech bubble burst, the team was left with almost nothing, and ended up losing money on the deal. Scottrade fixed that problem by paying its deal all in cash.

In September 2006, Scottrade founder Rodger O. Riney announced a partnership with the St. Louis Blues hockey club and arena. The new name of the arena, Scottrade Center , was revealed in a joint press conference. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but were described as "long-term and significant." Both Scottrade and the Blues said the agreement was "equitable" to both parties. Most of the signage and other promotions were changed to Scottrade Center prior to the first home game of the Blues on October 12, 2006.

(* The first St. Louis Blues game was played in January 1995 due to the 1994–95 season being cut short because of a labor dispute.)

Tenants

Scottrade Center is the home of the St. Louis Blues hockey franchise. A number of other events are scheduled in Scottrade Center through the year, such as concerts, ice shows, circuses, and similar large gatherings.

Former tenants of Scottrade Center include the Saint Louis University Billikens NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball, St. Louis Vipers roller hockey team, St. Louis Ambush and St. Louis Steamers indoor soccer teams, the St. Louis Stampede arena football team, and the River City Rage indoor football team.

Notable events

  • Legendary singer Frank Sinatra made his last ever concert stop to St. Louis on October 21, 1994 to perform a sell out concert at Scottrade Center (then Kiel Center). His last words to the crowd were "I will see you again, I promise"
  • The arena has hosted multiple World Wrestling Entertainment events, most notably WWF Badd Blood: In Your House (which included the first ever Hell in a Cell), Survivor Series 1998, No Mercy 2001, Judgment Day 2007 and Elimination Chamber 2010. It also hosted the emotional RAW is Owen on May 24, 1999 – a tribute edition of WWE's Monday Night RAW dedicated to the life of former wrestler Owen Hart, who died in an accident 24 hours before at the Over The Edge pay-per-view event in Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Scottrade Center has been announced to host the 2010 edition of WWE Elimination Chamber, the new WWE Pay-per-view will replace No Way Out as the February PPV.
  • Pope John Paul II celebrated a youth day service here on his 1999 visit to St. Louis.
  • Every March since 1995, the Scottrade Center has hosted "Arch Madness", the men's basketball conference tournament for the Missouri Valley Conference.
  • Rock band Alice in Chains performed their last concert with vocalist Layne Staley on July 3, 1996.
  • Hosts the annual "Braggin' Rights" men's college basketball game between the universities of Illinois and Missouri.
  • 1997 Conference USA men's basketball tournament
  • Hosts the Mid-States Club Hockey Association Challenge Cup and Wickenheiser Cup finals for high school hockey teams in St. Louis
  • 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Midwest Regional
  • NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in 2000, 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009
  • Women's Final Four in 2001 and 2009
  • Hosted the Cory Spinks vs. Zab Judah undisputed welterweight title fight in 2005.
  • Hosted the 2006 State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships in January 2006, which was used as the primary means to select the United States Figure Skating team for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
  • The center Hosts Dare 2 Share, a Christian youth ministry conference, since 2006.
  • Scottrade Center hosted the 2007 Frozen Four college ice hockey tournament on April 5 and April 7, 2007.
  • The PBR has hosted a Built Ford Tough Series (formerly Bud Light Cup) event at this venue annually since 1997 (when it was known as the Kiel Center).
  • MMA organization Strikeforce held their Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields event at the Scottrade Center June 6, 2009.
  • October 8, 2009, After the 2009-2010 Season Opener for the St. Louis Blues, a freak accident on one of the buildings escalators injures 11, when the escalator began to rapidly go down. The accident happened after the game against the Atlanta Thrashers.

References

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