When a jet takes off, if you were standing a football field and one-third away, the noise would be eight times "annoyingly loud," 100 decibels.
When the Winnipeg "Jets" took off Friday night (and 32 seconds into the game they did) the noise inside Bell MTS Place was 114.3 decibels, a new record for the arena considered the loudest in the NHL and over 16 times annoying, above the average human pain threshold, greater than an automobile horn at one yard, and half way to a chain saw, which the "Jets" took to Minnesota in a 5-0 massacre.
This iteration of the "Jets" won their first playoff series four games to one and there were 15,321 witnesses cum noise makers in the arena and another 36,000 outside at the corner of Portage and Main downtown.
Winnipeg now awaits Colorado or Nashville in the second round in the chase for the Stanley Cup.
When the Winnipeg "Jets" took off Friday night (and 32 seconds into the game they did) the noise inside Bell MTS Place was 114.3 decibels, a new record for the arena considered the loudest in the NHL and over 16 times annoying, above the average human pain threshold, greater than an automobile horn at one yard, and half way to a chain saw, which the "Jets" took to Minnesota in a 5-0 massacre.
This iteration of the "Jets" won their first playoff series four games to one and there were 15,321 witnesses cum noise makers in the arena and another 36,000 outside at the corner of Portage and Main downtown.
Winnipeg now awaits Colorado or Nashville in the second round in the chase for the Stanley Cup.
