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Mellon Arena

66 Mario Lemieux Place

Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Opened: September 17, 1961

Mellon Arena, originally called the Civic Auditorium and then later the Civic Arena, was an arena located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Civic Arena primarily served as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League (NHL) franchise, from 1967 to 2010.

Constructed in 1961 for use by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (CLO), it was the brainchild of department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. It was the first retractable roof major-sports venue in the world, covering 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2), constructed with nearly 3,000 tons of Pittsburgh steel and supported solely by a massive 260-foot-long (79 m) cantilevered arm on the exterior. Even though it was designed and engineered as a retractable-roof dome, the operating cost and repairs to the hydraulic jacks halted all full retractions after 1995, and the roof stayed permanently closed after 2001. The first roof opening was during a July 4, 1962, Carol Burnett show to which she exclaimed "Ladies and Gentlemen ... I present the sky!"

Last 10 Games
Date	Opponents	Result

Dec 2, 2009	Pittsburgh @ Duquesne	67 - 58
Mar 17, 2002	UCLA @ Cincinnati #	101 - 105
Mar 17, 2002	Cal @ Pittsburgh #	63 - 50
Mar 15, 2002	Pennsylvania @ Cal #	75 - 82
Mar 15, 2002	BU @ Cincinnati #	90 - 52
Mar 15, 2002	Central Connecticut St. @ Pittsburgh #	71 - 54
Mar 15, 2002	Ole Miss @ UCLA #	80 - 58
Dec 22, 2001	Duquesne @ Pittsburgh	78 - 63
Dec 19, 1994	Pittsburgh @ Duquesne	76 - 72
Dec 18, 1993	Pittsburgh @ Duquesne	77 - 66
	# - 2001-02 NCAA Tournament