Events
Ivor Wynne Stadium hosted the Grey Cup three times: in 1944 (when the Flying Wildcats were defeated by a wartime team from the Montreal Navy), 1972 (with a win by the hometown Tiger-Cats over Saskatchewan in a sell out) and 1996. In the 1996 game, temporary west and east end zone seating raised capacity to 40,000. That game, perhaps one of the greatest of all time, was played in a steady snowstorm, and was won by the Toronto Argonauts over the Edmonton Eskimos.
Some concerts have occurred at Ivor Wynne, the biggest being Pink Floyd in 1975. It was the last show of the North American Tour so in a dramatic finale, Pink Floyd's crew decided to go out with a bang and used up their remaining pyrotechnics around the stadium scoreboard. The explosion at the climax of the show was so intense it blew the scoreboard to pieces and shattered windows in neighboring houses. The last concert held at Ivor Wynne was Rush in 1979, until the Tragically Hip played on October 6, 2012 in what was falsely billed as 'The first and last show at Ivor Wynne'.
In April 2005, Ivor Wynne hosted Our Game to Give, a charity hockey game instigated as a result of the 2004–05 NHL lockout.
On January 21, 2012, Ivor Wynne hosted an AHL regular season game between the Toronto Marlies and Hamilton Bulldogs, the first outdoor game in Canada in the league's history and the fourth in an annual series of outdoor AHL games.
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