Opened 1976 | Team Montréal Mission | |
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Similar Maurice Richard Arena, St Michel Arena, Paul Sauvé Arena, Centre Pierre Charbonneau, Complexe sportif Claude‑Robillard | ||
The Centre Étienne Desmarteau is a multi-purpose complex center with two ice rinks in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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History
The center is named in honour of Étienne Desmarteau, a Canadian Olympic athlete during the 1904 Summer Olympics. The arena hosted the basketball preliminaries during the 1976 Summer Olympics. Following the Olympics, it is used mostly as an ice hockey venue, while the gyms are used for a variety of sports including indoor soccer, basketball and rhythmic gymnastics.
Description
The first ice rink in the complex has 2,200 seats which took Caroline Ouellette's name. The second, smaller rink, the Ice rink Jean Trottier, has a 600 person seating capacity. There are also two Olympic gymnasiums, some changing rooms, and one weights room for training.
Home for
It was once home to Le Junior de Montreal hockey team. Now Centre Étienne Desmarteau is the home of Les Canadiennes a women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League and Montreal Mission a professional team of the National Ringette League. Furthermore, numerous amateur tournaments are held in it every year. The upstairs gym contains the home of the Club Rythmik Quebec, a very successful rhythmic gymnastics club offering training to rhythmic gymnasts up to international level, as well as recreational, pre-competitive, and parent and child classes.