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Centre Slush Puppie
Slush Puppie Centre
Location Gatineau, Quebec
Opened 2021
Owner Gatineau
Tenants Gatineau Olympiques (QMJHL) (2021-)
Gatineau Hull-Volants (NCJHL) (2021-)
Capacity Hockey: 4,000

The Centre Slush Puppie (in Canadian English, Slush Puppie Centre) Colisée de Rimouski is a 4,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, opened in 2021. It is home to the Gatineau Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Gatineau Hull-Volants of the National Capital Junior Hockey League. The arena is the feature arena in a complex that includes 3 addition community based skating rinks

Replacement of the Robert Guertin Centre[]

In 2001, team owners of the Olympiques first discussed the idea of playing at a new rink with a larger capacity.[1] Renovations were made to the arena in 2003 and 2004 that slightly reduced the number of seats due to safety reasons.[2] On May 25, 2011, city council announced that a new 5,000 seat arena would be built on the same site, and the old arena would be demolished. The estimated cost of the new arena was to be $63 million,[3] but the project never went further.

On February 22, 2017, city council approved a new 4,000 seat arena and recreation complex with three community rinks. Cost is estimated at $79 million.[4] The new arena, Slush Puppie Centre,[5] being built east of downtown, and to be completed by September 2021, will be just north of Maloney Boulevard, between Montée Paiement and Boulevard de la Cité.[6]

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Robert Guertin Centre. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Ice Hockey Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA).


  1. Turbide, Mathieu. "Le maire Ducharme est catégorique: Pas question d'agrandir l'aréna Robert-Guertin", Le Droit, March 7, 2001, p. 4. 
  2. Brassard, Marc. "Un escalier sème la colère des proprios des Olympiques", Le Droit, July 8, 2004, p. 48. 
  3. Dabaghi-Pacheco, Omar (2011-05-25). Excitement builds for new venue at Bob Guertin site. CBC News.
  4. Panico, Giacomo (2017-02-22). Gatineau approves deal to replace Robert Guertin arena. CBC News.
  5. Le nouvel aréna des Olympiques de Gatineau s'appellera le Centre Slush Puppie (fr-ca).
  6. Spears, Tom (2017-02-22). Gatineau council approves new $79M arena complex; home for Olympiques. Postmedia Network.
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