Rogers Arena
Built for C$160 million and opened in 1995, this is the rink where Vancouver's hockey soul lives — and where the city briefly renamed it Canada Hockey Place for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Rogers Arena replaced the aging Pacific Coliseum and opened in 1995, the same year Vancouver received the NBA expansion Grizzlies — while also becoming the new home of the already-existing Canucks. The Grizzlies lasted six seasons before relocating to Memphis in 2001; the Canucks never left. It also hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic ice hockey events, making it one of the few arenas with an Olympic chapter in its history.
What to look for
- The new centre-hung video board installed for the 2023–24 NHL season, now the centrepiece of the renovated interior
- The new ribbon board above the lower bowl, added for the 2023–24 NHL season as part of the arena's ongoing renovation
- The twin tunnels leading to the home and away team benches, flanked by a newly added VIP restaurant between them
Home Canucks (NHL) games run October through April at 800 Griffiths Way, Downtown Vancouver; check the schedule before making the trip.
Rogers Arena is one of 13 sights worth the detour in Vancouver, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Vancouver pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Vancouver
- BC PlaceA stadium that broke the same world record twice — first with the largest air-supported roof ever built, then with the largest cable-supported retractable roof.
- Stanley ParkA thousand acres of old-growth forest on a downtown peninsula — bigger than Central Park, as old as Vancouver itself.
- Pacific ColiseumThe rink where Vancouver first played NHL hockey — and where 2010 Olympic skaters competed on the same ice.
- Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports CentreCanada's first national hockey team was born on this ice in 1963 — and the Vancouver Canucks still practice here.
- Richmond Olympic OvalThe rink where Olympic speed skaters raced in 2010 is now a public arena where you can climb a wall, row a tank, or lace up hockey skates — all under one roof.
- Vancouver Art GalleryWestern Canada's largest art museum, housed in a Francis Rattenbury courthouse since 1983 — the gallery's original home even survived a 1938 sit-down strike with its paintings untouched.