Red Wings Hockey Fans Burn Little Caesars Pizza Arena Name

Updated at 12:51 p.m.

DETROIT, MI – On social media Thursday, the announcement of the new name for the big, tough Detroit Red Wings hockey team’s home ice — Little Caesars Arena — fell as flat as a thin-crust pie with too much cheese.

The other developments could include a major league soccer stadium and a towering high-rise building.

The glass-enclosed building housing the arena will have five restaurants, seven clubs, a concourse area three times the size of the one at the current Joe Louis Arena. On the roof, the largest Little Caesars image in the world will be displayed.

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On Twitter, users lobbed virtual stink bombs at Little Caesers Arena.

And, because someone had to bring it up, there was lot of Twitter chatter about cheese.

“Will the seats be stuffed with cheese?” Twitter user Ian McLaren wondered.

“No,” user David Johnson said, “but they will be bacon wrapped.”

Little Caesars introduced a gastro-bomb of a pizza last year, a rectangular cake-pan-sized deep-dish concoction wrapped in 3½ feet of bacon.

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