Place Bell, multi-purpose arena in Laval, Quebec, Canada
Place Bell is a modern sports arena in Laval, Canada, that serves as the home of the Laval Rocket professional ice hockey team. The facility includes seating for spectators and features professional-grade playing and training spaces.
Announced on February 13, 2012 by Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt, the project was first priced at $92.6 million and later estimated at $200 million by mayor Marc Demers in 2014. Plans to build next to the Laval courthouse were dropped because of unstable soil, and the arena rose beside Montmorency metro station instead. Construction ran from late 2014 to its opening in autumn 2017.
The arena is nicknamed "Petit Centre Bell" because it is operated by Evenko, the same company as the Bell Centre, and its naming rights were bought by Bell Canada. Les Canadiennes de Montréal played their 2018–19 season here, reaching the Clarkson Cup final on home ice before losing to the Calgary Inferno.
Place Bell stands next to Montmorency station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line, in Laval's Cité de la culture et du sport; the site was moved there after unstable soil ruled out the Quartier de l'Agora. The complex holds a 10,172-seat main arena plus two community ice rinks, one with Olympic-size ice, so check which rink an event uses before arriving.
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