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Encyclopedia > Pacific Coliseum
The Pacific Coliseum.
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The Pacific Coliseum.

Pacific Coliseum is an indoor arena at 100 North Renfrew Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Completed in 1967 at the site of the Pacific National Exhibition, the arena seats 16,150 for ice hockey. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 1771 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Pacific Coliseum User:Buchanan-Hermit/photographs/vancouver Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 1771 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Pacific Coliseum User:Buchanan-Hermit/photographs/vancouver Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... The following is a list of indoor arenas. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The Pacific National Exhibition is an annual two-week summer fair in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...


The coliseum is currently home to the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League. The Giants were chosen to host the 2007 Memorial Cup here in May of that year. It has previously been home of the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL from 1970-1995 and the Vancouver Blazers of the WHA from 1973-1975. It hosted WCW New Blood Rising in 2000. Today, the arena is the home of the Vancouver Giants of the WHL, as well as the host of a variety of events and concerts. It has been chosen as the venue for figure skating and short track speed skating in the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Vancouver Giants are an ice hockey team playing in the Western Hockey League, based at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The Western Hockey League is one of the three hockey Major Junior Tier I leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. ... The Memorial Cup is the championship trophy of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). ... The Vancouver Canucks are a professional National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... NHL redirects here. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Vancouver Blazers were a professional ice hockey team that played in the World Hockey Association in the 1970s. ... World Hockey Association logo The World Hockey Association (French: Association Mondiale de Hockey) was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... WCW logo until 1999 World Championship Wrestling or WCW, was a professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. ... New Blood Rising was a PPV in World Championship Wrestling in 2000, 7 months before WCW folded. ... The Vancouver Giants are an ice hockey team playing in the Western Hockey League, based at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The Western Hockey League is one of the three hockey Major Junior Tier I leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... 500 metres short track heat at the 2004 World Cup in Saguenay Short track speed skating (also Shorttrack speedskating) is a form of competitive ice skating similar to speed skating. ... The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games, are the next Winter Olympics, scheduled to be celebrated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2010. ...


The two most notable sporting events to take place at the Pacific Coliseum were both hockey games. The Coliseum hosted Game 4 of the 1972 Summit Series on September 8, with the U.S.S.R. beating Canada 5-3. In a famous post-game interview, Phil Esposito gave an emotional response to the booing of the crowd that was broadcast on national television. The Pacific Colisieum also played host to team Canada during the 2005 World Junior Hockey Championship. Yvan Cournoyer (Canada) shooting towards Vladislav Tretiak (USSR) during a game of the Summit Series The 1972 Summit Series (in French, La Série du siècle), as it eventually came to be known, was the first competition between Soviet and Canadian professional ice hockey players (only amateurs were allowed... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem: The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital (and largest city) Moscow None; Russian de facto Government Federation of Soviet Republics  - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev  - Last Premier Ivan Silayev Establishment October Revolution   - Declared... Philip Anthony Esposito, OC (born February 20, 1942 in Sault Ste. ...


On June 11, 1994, the New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks met at the Coliseum in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Jeff Brown and Geoff Courtnall each scored twice as the Canucks won the game 4-1 to even the series at three games apiece. However, they lost the series to New York by a 3-2 score in Game 7. June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... The New York Rangers (NYR) are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York, U.S.A.. They play in the National Hockey League (NHL). ... This is the current WikiProject: Ice Hockey Article Improvement Drive collaboration! The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ... Jeff Brown was a defenseman in the NHL from the mid 1980s to late 1990s. ... Geoff Courtnall was born on the 18th of August, 1962 in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada. ...


WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) returned to the Pacific Coliseum in 2002 after WWE was banned from performing at GM Place due to several fights and incidents that occurred during a taping of WWE Raw. Because of that, WWE has not brought a televised event to the Vancouver area since 2001 and only perform house shows (non-televised) events once a year and they usually occur in May (since 2003). WWE decided to by-pass holding an event in Vancouver in 2006. World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, is a professional wrestling promotion, currently the largest in North America. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, is a professional wrestling promotion, currently the largest in North America. ... Inside GM Place before a Canucks game General Motors Place, also known as GM Place and The Garage, is an indoor arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, is a professional wrestling promotion, currently the largest in North America. ... Raw describes material that is in its natural unprocessed form, or has not had the final stages of processing. ... Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a city in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ... DX wrestling The Spirit Squad at a WWE house show in Syracuse, New York. ...


The WWE will be doing a WWE Supershow on February 10th, 2007. They will be taping the ECW show for February 13, 2007 and the SmackDown! show for February 16, 2007. [1] World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) is a professional wrestling brand of World Wrestling Entertainment, based on the independent promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling that lasted from 1992 to 2001. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WWE Friday Night SmackDown! is a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and is the flagship broadcast of the SmackDown! brand. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


References

  1. ^ WWE.com, WWE Smackdown & ECW Present Supershow at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver (Accessed on December 2, 2006)

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The Pacific Coliseum is the largest building within the Hastings Park complex and provides a magnificent setting for events as diverse as ice shows, boxing, basketball, hockey, concerts, circuses, large assemblies, and trade and consumer shows.
The Pacific Coliseum accommodates 15,713 in permanent seating, with provision for 2,000 temporary seats on the floor for concerts and spectator sports.
For sporting and other public events, the seating capacities in the Pacific Coliseum arena range from 4,200 in mini concert stage to 17,000 in the round full concert or sports seating.
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Around 1915, as they were toiling in the Pacific Coast League, the Vancouver Millionaires played in the Denman Street Arena, the first building in Western Canada to have artificial ice.
In 1964 at the Western Hockey League's annual meeting in Seattle, Stafford Smythe, former President of the Toronto Maple Leafs, revealed that his Canucks were willing to erect an $8,000,000 Coliseum, seating 20,000, in downtown Vancouver as a member of a new six-team NHL division.
In 1967, Vancouver became the envy of other hockey towns when the Pacific Coliseum opened and the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League moved in.
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