The Vernon Vipers started the 2001-02 regular season playing it's first ten games on the road before returning home to open the new arena. Vernon Vipers forward Chad Clower scored the games first goal in the new arena, while Vernon Vipers forward Mark Nelson scored the overtime winner as the Vernon Vipers defeated the expansion Salmon Arm Silverbacks 3-2 in overtime in front of a capacity crowd of 3,506.
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We moved to Vernon in December 2001 and I started going to the Vipers games the following season
I remember driving by the site/construction of the arena on my way to work at the mine near Williams Lake
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