Red Wings

Weyburn Red Wings

Arena Name: Weyburn Colosseum
Capacity: 1745 (1495 seated)
Built: 1960
Address: 327 Mergens St. NW, Weyburn, SK S4H 2K6
Ice Surface Size: Regulation
Last Game: 1968

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 Weyburn Colosseum

Weyburn Colosseum

 What's the Arena Like?

Weyburn still has a junior team called the Red Wings and they still play at the Colosseum, so calling this a "former" arena is a bit of a stretch. But for a brief period in the WHL's early history, from 1966-68, the Red Wings were a Dub team, not an SJHL one.

Crescent Point Place, as it's now known, sits on the northwestern fringe of town, adjacent to ball fields and a community hockey rink. It was built in 1960 but looks newer, with a renovated front end facade obscuring what I assume was the original one. It looks too small to be a major junior rink, and it is - with a capacity under 2000, it's easily one of the smallest permanent major junior arenas in the CHL's history. Inside, once through the new lobby, the age of the place shows. There's only seating along the sides of the rink; seven rows of red bench seats and that's it. The building is doused in red and white paint, much as Joe Louis Arena was for the namesake big Red Wings, and there's memorabilia everywhere.

From the WHL's early rebel league years, the Weyburn Colosseum is one of the only remaining arenas still hosting the same team in the same building. The Red Wings have been ever-present in Weyburn since 1961, and the only thing remarkable about the rink from the perspective of this website is that they played in the WHL for two of those seasons. Weyburn is a footnote in the WHL's history, and the WHL is equally a footnote in the history of the Weyburn Red Wings. But the Colosseum still stands, hosting the team, and it's one of the grand old barns of today's SJHL.

 Inside Weyburn Colosseum

Weyburn Colosseum

 What's It Used for Today?
Weyburn Colosseum, or Crescent Point Place, remains home of the SJHL's Red Wings, as it has been since 1961.

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