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Stadium:
General Motors Place
General Motors Place, sponsored by General Motors Canada, is an indoor arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Completed in 1995 at a cost of C$160 million in private financing, the arena is home to the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL and Vancouver Ravens of the NLL, and was formerly home to the Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA. The Grizzlies have since moved to Memphis and the Ravens organization has folded. The arena seats 18,630 for ice hockey and 19,193 for basketball. It has 88 luxury suites, 12 hospitality suites, and 2,195 club seats. The arena replaced the Pacific Coliseum as the main venue for events in Vancouver. The arena is served by the Skytrain's Stadium-Chinatown Station. On November 8, 2006, Francesco Aquilini became the sole owner of the of the Vancouver Canucks and General Motors Place.

Seating Chart:
General Motors Place Seating Chart

Team History:
In 1945 the Pacific Coast Hockey League established an ice hockey franchise in the city of Vancouver. Known as the Canucks, they immediately enjoyed success by winning PCHL championships in their first (1946) and third (1948) year of existence. In 1952, the PCHL merged with the Western Canada Senior Hockey League to form the professional Western Hockey League. With numerous star players coming through the ranks like Johnny Bower, Andy Bathgate, Tony Esposito, Allan Stanley, and Phil Maloney, the Canucks would again win the President's/Lester Patrick Cup in 1958, 1960, 1969, and 1970. The team played at the Vancouver Forum. In 1965, when the NHL announced plans to expand to six additional markets, the owner of the WHL's Canucks (and former Vancouver mayor), Fred Hume, announced that the city of Vancouver would apply. However, the presentation to the NHL's Board of Governors was sloppily prepared. Because of this, and the fact that the Vancouver ownership group was disliked by Detroit Red Wings owner Bruce Norris and Toronto Maple Leafs majority-owner Stafford Smythe (who hated Vancouver in general because of a failed arena plan), the application did not succeed. Nevertheless, the Pacific Coliseum, which was to be the first home for a prospective Vancouver NHL team, was built on the grounds of the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE).

Season Preview:
We confess. A season ago, we liked the Vancouver Canucks not just to win the division but also to win a Stanley Cup. How were we to know that the team would collapse in a morass of in-fighting, underachievement and injury? A dramatic makeover that includes the departure of the sometimes acerbic coach Marc Crawford, the almost always surly Todd Bertuzzi and the almost always injured Dan Cloutier, along with solid young defenseman Bryan Allen and young netminder Alex Auld, has some thinking the Canucks might return to the lofty heights we predicted a year ago. We don't think so. Alain Vigneault, in his second NHL coaching gig, has promised to shake things up on the left coast, but unless he can shake some offense into the lineup and shake Willie Mitchell into Ed Jovanovski, the Canucks are going to be life and death to even make the playoffs, even with Roberto Luongo between the pipes.

Official Site:
http://canucks.nhl.com/