General Motors Place, renamed Canada Hockey Place for the 2010 Winter Olympics because of rules about corporate sponsorships of Olympic venues http://www.vancouver2010.com/, is the home of the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL, and was built to house both the Canucks and the Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA.

The Stadium opened in 1995, and was constructed at the cost of 160 million Canadian dollars http://www.generalmotorsplace.com/galleries/arena-configurations. This venue will be the home of the 2010 Olympic Ice Hockey tournament.

This arena has also been the home of a National Lacrosse League team and a Roller Hockey International team, both teams have since suspended operations, although efforts were made to revive them in both 2007, and 2008. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/205.html

While this stadium was built as a joint NHL/NBA arena, it should have been very successful, since that is the model used by most major cities featuring NBA and NHL franchiseshttp://www.examiner.com/x-2566-Sports-Business-Examiner However, Vancouver never really had a large basketball audience. The Grizzlies final year in Vancouver saw them draw just 13,737 fans per home gamehttp://espn.go.com/nba/attendance/_/year/2001

After losing their second tenant for their arena the Canucks have been in the top ten of NHL attendance for much of the last decade http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance/_/year/2007. In it’s 15 year history it has attracted more than 17 million visitors for NHL and NBA games as well as concerts and other forms of entertainment http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=56580

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