Tampa Bay Thunderdome Women's T-Shirt Salt Lake City They played in Austin from

They played in Austin from 1996 to 2008

Their home field was at times the Miami Orange Bowl

in Hidalgo

where they had played since 2009

First time to Albuquerque

Tampa Bay Thunderdome Women's T-Shirt Salt Lake City They played in Austin fromIt would take several years for the Tampa Bay Lightning to find their permanent home arena after joining the NHL in 1992. During their first season games were held at Expo Hall at the Florida State Fair Grounds. With a seating capacity of just over 10k, it was much too small. In their sophomore season, Tropicana Field was turned into the Thunderdome. This greatly improved their seating capacity, and in 1996 they even broke the NHL attendance record at