#TICH: Housewarming At GM Place

The Vancouver Canucks moved to their new home on October 9, 1995. GM Place saw its first regular season NHL hockey game, the Vancouver Canucks vs the Detroit Redwings. Mike Ridley scored the first regular season goal at GM Place, but the Detroit Redwings won the game, putting five pucks past Kirk Mclean that night. The score was 5-3.

Canucks Photo Campaign: “Building The Dream”. Players photograph doing construction at GM Place.I was at that game. I sat in Level 300, section 301 in the very last row. I attended the game with 5 other friends and although we were all the way up there, we didn’t miss a thing. That night, we all realized there wasn’t a bad seat in the house. This was going to be…