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Pacific Coliseum, locally known as The Coliseum or the Rink on Renfrew, is an indoor arena located at Hastings Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its main use has been for ice hockey and the arena has been the home for several ice hockey teams. The arena was the home of the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League (WHL), from 2001 to 2016.
Canada's largest indoor arenas by seating capacity for ice hockey. ... Pacific Coliseum: Vancouver: British Columbia: 17,150: 16,281: ... Chilliwack Coliseum ...
The arena had seating for 5,050 spectators for hockey and box lacrosse. Some of the other major spectator arenas in the area besides the Forum included the Kerrisdale Arena (Vancouver) and Queen's Park Arena (New Westminster). It hosted the Pacific Coast Hockey League's and Western Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks from 1945 to 1968
Pacific Coliseum: 16,281 Vancouver Canada Wells Fargo Arena: 16,110 Des Moines, Iowa United States Coliseo General Rumiñahui: 16,000 Quito Ecuador: Osaka-jo Hall: 16,000 Osaka Japan Axiata Arena: 16,000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia: Arena Birmingham: 15,800 [14] Birmingham United Kingdom Fernando Buesa Arena: 15,716 Vitoria-Gasteiz Spain Resorts ...
It served as the home field for the Vancouver Whitecaps for the 1981–82 NASL indoor soccer season, when the Pacific Coliseum became unavailable. [3] It was host to the Vancouver VooDoo roller hockey franchise from 1993–94. [4] It was home to the Vancouver Burrards Western Lacrosse Association team from 1990–93. The team moved to the North ...
Pacific Division: Team Arena Years used Capacity Opened Location Reference Anaheim Ducks (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim) None n/a n/a n/a n/a [71] Calgary Flames (Atlanta Flames) Stampede Corral: 1980–1983 7,424 1950 Calgary, Alberta [72] Omni Coliseum: 1972–1980 15,278 1972 Atlanta, Georgia [73] Edmonton Oilers (Alberta Oilers) Northlands Coliseum
The organization was established in 1907 as the Vancouver Exhibition Association, and organized its first fair at Hastings Park in 1910. The organization was renamed to the Pacific National Exhibition in 1946. During the mid-20th century, a number of facilities were built on the PNE grounds, including Pacific Coliseum and PNE Agrodome.
The arena was completed in 1995 at a cost of C$160 million in private financing to replace the aging Pacific Coliseum as the main venue for events in Vancouver and to serve as the home arena to the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and the Vancouver Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. [9]