Old Arena Images & Beginnings

[James Laverance]

The Hamilton Tigers were an NHL team from 1920-25 pictured here playing inside the Barton Street Arena that was built in 1910.

 

[James Laverance]

The Ottawa Auditorium home of the Ottawa Senators from 1923-34.

 

[James Laverance]

The Stanley Cup winning Montreal Canadiens posing inside the Mount Royal Arena in 1924.
The last NHL Arena to have a natural ice surface until 1926.

 

[James Laverance]

The Verdun Auditorium near Montreal in 1939.

 

[James Laverance]

The Chicago Coliseum was built in 1926 and served as the home of the Blackhawks until 1928 when Chicago Stadium opened.

 

[James Laverance]

The Windsor Arena built in 1924 was originally called the "Border-Cities Arena" and the home of the Detroit Cougars(Red Wings) from 1926-27.

 

[James Laverance]

The Victoria Senators Hockey Club of the PCHA inside the Patrick Ice Arena in 1912-13.

 

[James Laverance]

The Denman Arena home of the Vancouver Millionaires also of the PCHA from 1911-1924
and the WCHL from 1924-26.

 

[James Laverance]

The Portland Rosebuds Hockey Team of the PCHA in 1914-15 posing inside the Portland Hippodrome.

 

[James Laverance]

The Seattle Metropolitans of the PCHA, The First American Team to win the Stanley Cup in 1917, inside the Seattle Ice Arena in 1919.

1919 Seattle Metropolitans: (from left) Frank Foyston, Bobby Rowe, Muzz Murray, Roy Rickey, Bill Anthony, Harry "Hap" Holmes, Pete Muldoon, Bernie Morris, Cully Wilson, and Jack Walker.

 

[James Laverance]

The Dey's Arena which opened in 1908 and housed the Ottawa Senators until 1923 where they won Five Stanley Cups in 1909, 1911, 1920, 1921, and 1923.

 

[greyraven8]

The Dey's Arena which opened in 1908 and housed the Ottawa Senators until 1923 where they won Five Stanley Cups in 1909, 1911, 1920, 1921, and 1923.
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Ran across a blog posting with pictures of the demolition of Dey's Arena
Urbsite: DEY'S DEMO IN DETAIL: SAMPLING THE NCC'S HISTORIC PHOTO TROVE

 

[James Laverance]

^^^
Wow!
A lot of info there Thanks.

 

[James Laverance]

The Toronto Marlboros Champions of the OHA in 1904 posing inside the Mutual Street Rink (Built in 1875) that went on to challenge the Ottawa Silver Seven that year.

Notable players include Eddie Giroux (Goaltender) and Tommy Phillips (Second from bottom right)
that went on to play with the Stanley Cup Champion Kenora Thistles later on.

 

[James Laverance]

A Stanley Cup challenge game between the Winnipeg Victorias who defeated the Toronto Wellingtons in January of 1902 played at the Winnpeg Auditorium Rink built in 1898.

 

[James Laverance]

The Montagnard Rink built in 1898, Montreal, and housed both the Montreal Nationals of Canadian Amateur Hockey League and the Montreal Montagnard of the Federal Amateur Hockey League in the early 1900's.

 

[James Laverance]

An exterior of the Fort William Arena built in 1905 and home of the Fort William Hockey Teams that participated in the New Ontario Hockey League from 1907-12.

 

[James Laverance]

The Berlin "Queen Street Auditorium" built in 1904 housing the Dutchman/ Union Jacks of the Ontario Professional Hockey League from 1908-1911 and competing in the 1910 Stanley Cup Final against the Montreal Wanderers.

 

[James Laverance]

The Glace Bay "Alexandra Rink" built in 1903 home of the Miners Hockey Team that played in the Eastern Professional Hockey League in 1914-15.

 

[greyraven8]

An exterior of the Fort William Arena built in 1905 and home of the Fort William Hockey Teams that participated in the New Ontario Hockey League from 1907-12.

Have some arena information/pictures of old arenas of what is now Thunder Bay (Fort William/Port Arthur then).
Some of it is posted in my mostly abandoned blog. Posting started off about the Sportimer clock but disintegrated into ramblings on other semi-related topics including local (to me) arenas of the past.

HOCKEY JERSEYS DIY & OTHERWISE, etc: Sportimer

 

[James Laverance]

^^^
Thanks greyraven8 now that's an interesting blog.
Enough so that I thought I'd post one on this site.

 

[James Laverance]

An exterior of the Port Aurther "Lake City Skating Rink" that was built in the early 1900's.
It was home to the Port Aurther Bearcats of the New Ontario Hockey League from 1907-12 and challenged the Ottawa Senators to the Stanley Cup in 1911.

 

[James Laverance]

Here a list of Eastern Hockey League Arena's 1933-73
Eastern Hockey League Arenas

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

The Denman Arena home of the Vancouver Millionaires also of the PCHA from 1911-1924
and the WCHL from 1924-26.
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Talk about your steep balconies.....

 

[James Laverance]

The opening night's for Hockey in both the HersheyPark Arena 1937 and the Uline Arena in 1941.
The Uline was built by Mike Uline Based on the Hershey Arena.
Notice the similarities.