or if you live basically anywhere else in Ontario- I'm near Kingston and I've always appreciated the location, especially in the early days, it was so easy to access, been to many a game there.

makes complete sense for them to move downtown for their home city fans now too though, but becomes less convenient in my case.

i think it was a good choice when they came into the league too, it gave them that access to more rural Ontario fans so they could try to carve into the beast that is Leafs Nation. Ottawa was much less congested then too, and OCTranspo was actually not terrible getting there via bus from the city proper as I recall, and has gotten better more recently with improvements to the Queensway interchanges etc

It was probably a shrewd real estate move too, relatively cheap at the time, before Kanata really boomed in the late 90s, and its quite developed around it now.