Colisée Jean-Guy Talbot, Indoor sports arena in Trois-Rivières, Canada.
The Colisée Jean-Guy Talbot is an indoor arena in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, built in the Streamline Moderne style and listed in the Quebec Cultural Heritage Directory. It has an artificial ice surface and seating for around 2,800 spectators arranged in several sections around the rink.
The building opened in 1938 and later became home to the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, a professional hockey team that played in the Quebec league from 1969 to 1992. After the Draveurs folded, the arena continued to be used for local and university-level sport.
The arena is named after Jean-Guy Talbot, a defenseman from Trois-Rivières who won the Stanley Cup several times in the 1950s and 1960s. His name on the building signals how much the city values its hockey players, even decades after their careers ended.
The arena sits close to downtown Trois-Rivières and can be reached on foot from the city center or by car, as parking is available nearby. For hockey games, arriving a little early gives you time to find a good seat before the rink fills up.
Although the building dates to 1938, its Streamline Moderne style gives it the rounded, aerodynamic look that was more often applied to trains and household appliances than to sports venues at the time. Today the UQTR Patriotes university hockey team plays its home games here, keeping the old building in regular use.
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