Rogers Arena

Vancouver Canucks (NHL, 1995 ) Vancouver Grizzlies ( NBA 1995-2001) Vancouver Ravens ( NLL, 2001-2004) Vancouver Voodoo (RHI ) ( 1996)

The Rogers Arena (formerly General Motors Place ) is an indoor stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Construction was completed in 1995 with a private financing of 160 million Canadian dollars. The arena is the home of the Vancouver Canucks (NHL). Previously, the Vancouver Ravens ( NLL ) and the Vancouver Grizzlies (NBA ) in the " garage " at home. But the Ravens have dissolved and the Grizzlies have moved due to lack of success and low attendances to Memphis (Tennessee).

In the Rogers Arena have at playing hockey and 18,630 for basketball matches 19,193 fans place. The stadium has 75 luxury suites and 2,195 club seats.

The Arena in 1995, the Pacific Coliseum, the former home of the Canucks replaced, and is therefore now the main venue for events in Vancouver.

On 17 November 2004, the Board of the Aquilini Investment Group, Francesco Aquilini, a contract with John McCaw, the then owner of the Canucks, negotiated, by which he came into possession of 50 % of the team and the stadium. About 2 years later - on November 8, 2006 - Francesco Aquilini was the sole owner of the Vancouver Canucks and Rogers Arena.

The Rogers Arena is connected with the stage - Chinatown station on the route network of the Skytrain.

Upgrades

Mid-2006, the arena was a " ProAd LED ribbon board", an electronic scoreboard, which surrounded the upper part of the spectator stands ribbon-shaped, equipped. Shortly after the original scoreboard "Mitsubishi Mark IV " has been replaced by a new 5 million -dollar " ProStar LED scoreboard " because the world inventory of spare parts for the old scoreboard was not sufficient to guarantee the smooth running of the 2006/2007 season. The new LED scoreboard encloses four screens that represent each with 411 × 732 cm, the biggest in the NHL. Apart from the size of video surfaces is remarkable that these can reproduce the input image material in 4.4 trillion colors. In addition, the pitch of each pixel is only 10 mm. Due to the size, color depth and resolution images are generated that are second to none.

Further facilities at the corners 168 × 411 cm large screens and on the top and bottom of the display panel ever an annular screen. With 22,226 kg, the new scoreboard weighs around 2% less than the one it replaced.

Past major events

• The first event was a concert by Bryan Adams.
• 1996: World Cup of Hockey
• 1998: WWF Rock Bottom
• 1998: NHL All-Star Game
• 1998: NBA Draft 1998
• 2001 World Figure Skating Championships
• 2002: Queen Elizabeth II interjected during a friendly game of the Vancouver Canucks against the San Jose Sharks as part of a ceremonial faceoffs the puck on October 6, 2002. She was accompanied by the Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky on the ice. The monarch was present due to a visit to Canada on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of her accession to the throne during the first third of the game.
• 2005: recording of the music video for the song City of Blinding Lights U2 at GM Place
• 2006: IIHF World Junior Championship
• 2006 NHL Entry Draft 2006
• 2007: scene of the first concert of the reunion tour of The Police
• 2007: venue of the eighth game of the Super Series 2007 between the youth teams of Canada and Russia on September 9, 2007
• 2007:. NBA pre-season game between the Phoenix Suns and the Seattle SuperSonics on 26 October 2007 This was the first NBA game, which was held in Vancouver since April 2001.
• 2010: hockey games of the Olympic Winter Games. For the first time in the Olympic Games, the format of the NHL ice surface was assumed. This decision was made so that the audience - and the associated profit - as high as possible fail, which would not have been the case if they had been built exclusively for the Olympic Games is a temporary, smaller ice rink ice surface with the international format. For the duration of the Winter Games, the arena was renamed " Canada Hockey Place " since, according to IOC rules, the venues may not bear any company names.