The Oilers left a pretty big piece of hardware behind at Rexall Place, and now the city has to decide what to do with it.

The old scoreboard will soon be looking for a new home if plans to redevelop the Coliseum into a sports multiplex go forward. But it'll have to be a big home.

"It's big," said Northlands CEO Tim Reid. "It's probably the size of a 1960s bungalow."

He said the enormous size will make moving it into another building difficult, because special engineering work would have to be done to make sure the structure can hold it.

The scoreboard initially cost $3.5 million, which Northlands is still paying off. The Oilers have the option to buy it, but Rogers Place already features the largest scoreboard in the NHL.

If the team abandons it for good they'll pay a penalty, leaving the city to pay approximately $500,000 of what's left of the loan.

Council asked city staff to look at ways to unload the scoreboard.

"That means every possible option to take us out of the debt and make some money," Coun. Bryan Anderson said.

City council will debate what will become of the old scoreboard in early 2017.

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