Colisée Jean-Guy Talbot, Indoor sports arena in Trois-Rivières, Canada.
The Colisée Jean-Guy Talbot is an arena in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, built in 1938 in the Streamline Moderne style and listed in the Quebec Cultural Heritage Directory. It has 2,700 seats and 800 standing places, for a capacity of 3,500. It stands in the heart of the parc de l'Exposition and is linked by corridors to the aréna Claude-Mongrain.
Built in 1938, the arena was requisitioned by the Canadian army during the Second World War and served as a military camp until 1945. It returned to municipal ownership in 1946 and became Trois-Rivières' main rink in 1951, when a refrigeration system was installed and Premier Maurice Duplessis inaugurated it with a game between the Reds and the Montreal Canadiens. The Trois-Rivières Draveurs of the QMJHL played here from 1969 to 1992.
The arena was renamed on 26 November 2021 for Jean-Guy Talbot, a defenseman from Trois-Rivières who played 17 NHL seasons, 13 of them with the Montreal Canadiens, winning the Stanley Cup seven times. Before that it was simply the Colisée de Trois-Rivières, still nicknamed the vieux Colisée.
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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