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St-Jean Lynx
Arena Name: Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur |
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| Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur |
 Pictures by Andy Ritter of roamingtherinks.com. |
| What was the Arena Like? |
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| How To Get There |
| From A-35: Exit #7, boul. du Seminaire, and proceed north. Turn left on ave. Pierre-Caisse, then make a right on rue Choquette. The arena will be on your right. |
| Inside the Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur |
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| What's it Used For Today? |
| Formerly known as the Colisée de St-Jean, the building was renamed for the hometown Olympic figure skater after the Q had already left town. To my knowledge, it is the only past or present CHL arena named for a female. The QMJHL arrived in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu in 1982, when the original Sherbrooke Beavers arrived. They kept their original nickname, and were known as the St-Jean Castors (beavers) until 1989, when the name was changed to that favourite of the bilingually-inclined: the Lynx. Those Lynx lasted until 1995, when the team decamped to Rimouski, where they became today's Océanic. The St-Jean Castors also played one game across the river in 1984 at the Palladium d'Iberville. The arena, small by today's Q standards but not yet thirty years old, is home to community events as well as the Saint-Jean Summum Chiefs of the LNAH. |
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2002-08. |