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Originally Posted by J.OT13
What about NHL arenas? Maple Leaf Garden became a Loblaws and Sports Facility for Ryerson (Toronto Met U). The Forum became a weird cinema and entertainment venue. Rexall was abandoned and is about to get demoed. Civic Centre and Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa were temporary as they were never meant to be NHL arenas. Any others? I think Vancouver's is still around.
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I was thinking of venues that carried on at least nominally in their original function... MLG ceased being a functioning large-scale arena after the then-ACC opened, although you're right, there is still that small TMU arena in there but it's not the same as original MLG. Same situation with the Forum.
Pacific Coliseum is the only ex-NHL arena in Canada I can think of that still carries on largely unchanged. It's interesting how Vancouver is the only place in the country where that happened. Especially given that Pacific Coliseum doesn't even have a full time sports tenant ever since the Giants decamped to Langley.