{"id":227700,"date":"2025-10-20T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227700\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:02:07","slug":"lenovo-center-earns-reputation-as-loudest-arena-in-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227700\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo Center earns reputation as loudest arena in NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Hurricanes have long self-proclaimed Lenovo Center as the \u201cLoudest House in the NHL,\u201d and a recent survey conducted by NHL.com \u201cbacks up that claim\u201d with 24% of players choosing the Lenovo Center as their \u201cleast favorite place in the league to play,\u201d according to Chip Alexander of the Raleigh NEWS &amp; OBSERVER. A \u201cfull house at full crank\u201d at the Raleigh arena can \u201cmake the crowd seem twice as large &#8212; and twice as loud.\u201d Hurricanes coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour has \u201coften used the word \u2018electric\u2019 in describing the atmosphere at home.\u201d Alexander notes part of the reason for the \u201cresonant noise\u201d is the \u201cconfiguration of the arena.\u201d The arena can seat more than 10,000 in the lower bowl, \u201cmaking it extraordinarily loud\u201d at rinkside &#8212; or courtside for NC State basketball. The decibel count in the arena, \u201cwhether aided by the acoustics, can be unnerving.\u201d One official count from a control room at the arena \u201cwas about 117 decibels,\u201d although it is \u201cbelieved the level has hit 130 decibels during past playoff games.\u201d That is \u201csimilar to the blast of noise a military jet makes taking off from an aircraft carrier,\u201d according to a noise comparison chart from Purdue University. Alexander: \u201cWhatever the count, the Canes have sold out every game at home since Feb. 24, 2023. That\u2019s a lot of ear-ringing noise\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/sports\/nhl\/carolina-hurricanes\/article312562946.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raleigh NEWS &amp; OBSERVER, 10\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hurricanes have long self-proclaimed Lenovo Center as the \u201cLoudest House in the NHL,\u201d and a recent survey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,38775,3915,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-227700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fan-experience","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}