The Washington Power today ended its one-year stint at MCI Center in downtown Washington, moving to suburban Landover and the newly re-opened Capital Centre.

At Capital Centre, the Power will be the anchor tenant and eliminate the cause of a league-worst attendance mark this past season -- at MCI Center, it was forced to schedule four matinees out of seven home games to reduce the cost of renting the arena. As the primary tenant at Capital Centre, the Power now has first choice of dates, presumably at a lower rate than at MCI Center.

"We are excited to join Washington Sports and Entertainment in the re-opening of the Capital Centre," Power vice president and general manager Steve Govett said. "The opportunity to play our home games in a venue that is such tremendous fixture in Washington’s professional sports scene is appealing for many reasons. We believe that this move will provide us with an opportunity to offer a great product to our fans with a drastically improved price, better schedule and game times, and the capacity to expand our game related events beyond the two hours the Power are on the floor."

The Power has also relocated its team offices to Capital Centre as part of the move, and in 2002, will be playing in its fourth home arena in as many years. The one year at MCI Center followed thirteen years at Baltimore Arena (1987-1999, as the Baltimore Thunder) and one year at Mellon Arena (2000, Pittsburgh CrosseFire).