Palladium Details

 18,500: The official capacity set by the Ontario Municipal Board. However, it would be possible to squeeze in 21,500 people with floor seating for a concert. In that case, permission would be required to exceed normal capacity.

20: The width in inches of the average seat. It is 18 inches in the Civic Centre. Some Palladium seats are 21 inches wide. But a wider seat is not necessarily more expensive, just designed to make each row flush with the aisle.

6: Elevators. Four for the public and two for freight.

37: The capacity of each elevator.

O: Escalators.

157: Steps from ice level to top gallery.

500,000: Large concrete blocks.

138: The distance in feet from ice to back row of seats in third and top tier. That's 30 feet further than most distant seats in Civic Centre.

80: Average number of steps that fans in third and top ring will climb to their seats. That's equivalent to walking to the top of a five-storey building.

10,000: Approximate number of steps in the building.

4: Price in dollars of a regular beer, or of a children's meal including a hot dog and a soft drink.

38,000: Large automobiles that equal the weight of structural concrete in the building.

150: Luxury suites.

75,000: Annual cost in dollars of having a large illuminated sign on the outside of the Palladium, visible from the Queensway. There will be up to six signs.

1,200: Steel pilings each filled with concrete. Laid end to end, they would stretch from the Palladium to the east end of Ottawa.

2,400: Large automobiles that could be built with steel in the building.

2: Canadian-size football fields that could be covered by metal siding in the building.

2,500: Amount of electrical wiring in kilometres, enough to stretch from Ottawa to Toronto and back three times.

400: Seats in Citizen family zone available for $15 each for Senators games.

1: Branch of the YMCA-YWCA health club.

85: Top-price in dollars of single-game ticket for the Senators.

40: Large automobiles equivalent to weight of building's windows.

375,000: Interlocking paving stones.

0: Standing-room spots.

100: Rockcliffe-sized homes that could be furnished with the carpet in the building.

22: Refrigeration piping beneath rink in kilometres.

85 x 200: Dimensions, in feet, of National Hockey League rink. Palladium rink can be expanded to 100 x 200 for international games by taking out some of the ice-level seats.

6,500: Parking spaces for cars.

160: Parking spots for the disabled.

70: Parking spaces for buses.

30: Approximate driving time in minutes to Palladium, whether you're coming from east end, south end, or from Hull. For those coming from the west end, it's 10-20 minutes.

8: Parking cost in dollars for most events at the Palladium.

5: Parking cost in dollars for some events, dubbed family shows.

3: Parking cost in dollars for trade shows.

0: Parking charge when no event is taking place that day or evening.

7: Height in storeys of the Palladium. The ice surface is in the basement, two storeys below ground level. Fans in lower ring walk downstairs to their seats.

156: Points of sale, i.e. cash registers, operated by Ogden, where customers can buy beer, soft drinks, hot dogs etc.

44: Average ticket price in dollars for Senators game, $5 less than in Civic Centre.

600: Trees in landscaped approaches to building.

2: Kilometres of cedar hedges.

160: Events planned in the Palladium in a year, of which fewer than one in three will be a hockey game.

26: Games scheduled for the Senators in their inaugural season, barring a miraculous improvement good enough to put them in the playoffs.

2,000,000: Customers expected to attend events in the Palladium in one year.

2: Competing caterers. Ogden Entertainment Services will staff the food courts, which are self-service. Palladium Catering Services will serve patrons in the high-priced seats.

4: Large restaurants. Grandest will be the Palladium Club. Its competition will be a Hard Rock Cafe, Marshy's family restaurant, and a banquet hall where a buffet meal will be served on days and evenings when an event is taking place.

30: Approximate price in dollars of a main course in Palladium Club.

1,400: Cost in dollars of renting the entire Coliseum for an evening. Rental is reduced or waived if you pay to have your event catered.

200: Average-sized single homes that could be dry-walled with amount of drywall in the Palladium.

4: Special bus routes that will serve the Palladium on event days.

20,000,000: Estimated worth in dollars of the Palladium name over 20 years. But so far no business has been found to pay that kind of money to have the building named after it.

24: Approximate distance in kilometres from downtown Ottawa to Palladium.

16: Rows from the ice to the first ring of luxury suites, closest of any National Hockey League rink.

500: Size in square feet of many of the suites.

120,000: Annual rental cost in dollars of the best luxury suites, including taxes, plus a charge of at least $40,000 to equip and furnish your suite.

98: Area of Palladium site in acres, about twice the size of Lansdowne Park.

200,000,000: Approximate cost in dollars of the Palladium.

10,000: Approximate size in square feet of Ottawa Senators dressing rooms.

20,000: Approximate size in square feet of offices for Senators and Palladium staff.

2: Concourses that circle the inside of the Palladium. The Club Concourse is for fans sitting near ice level and in the first ring of suites. The Main Concourse is for fans in the two upper rings of seats and the two upper levels of suites.

1: Sports medicine clinic.

2,000: People who can go to the toilet at the same time.

16: Washrooms on the Main Concourse alone, where there are eight for men and eight for women.

66: Urinals (and 20 stalls) in each of the men's washrooms on the Main Concourse.

82: Stalls in each of the women's washrooms on the Main Concourse.

7,350: Floor space in square feet for rent in the Coliseum. It's a hall in basement of building available for banquets or parties.

2: Price in dollars of a hot dog.

125: Approximate distance in feet from seats in the gallery to ice surface. Gallery is where media and top ring of suites are located. Senators owner Rod Bryden has his suite there.

200: Seats for the news media. Press area includes four TV booths, four radio booths, one NHL booth and one TV-replay booth.

67,500: Porcelain floor tiles.

2: Approximate height in storeys of clock, scoreboard and giant TV screens suspended above centre ice. The cube-shaped construction has the dimensions of a small, two-storey house.

400: TV monitors scattered through building, including one in every suite.

6: Clusters of speakers suspended from the ceiling.

1,000: Full-time and part-time staff available to work at the Palladium during an event.

80,000 to 110,000: Annual cost in dollars of having a pair of advertising signs on the boards at hockey games.

69: Choices of food and beverages available from Ogden Entertainment Services, which will operate most concession stands in the building.

40: Approximate number of games Ottawa Senators must win in the Palladium in one season to win the Stanley Cup. That's 30 in regular season, and 10 in the playoffs. (That's assuming they win 20 road games.)