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Palais des Sports Léopold-Drolet
Palais des Sports (Sherbrooke)
Former names Palais des Sports
Location 360, rue du Cégep
Sherbrooke, Quebec
J1E 2J9
Owner City of Sherbrooke
Capacity 3,646 (seated, hockey)
Surface 200' X 85'
Construction
Opened 1965
Renovated March 2012
Tenants
Sherbrooke Castors/Faucons (QMJHL) (1969–1982; 1992–2003)
Sherbrooke Jets (AHL) (1982-1984)
Sherbrooke Canadiens (AHL) (1984-1990)
Sherbrooke Saint-François (LNAH) (2003–2011)
Sherbrooke Phoenix (QMJHL) (2012–present)

The Palais des Sports Léopold-Drolet is a 3,646-seat multi-purpose arena in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1965. Starting in 2012, this arena was renovated and is now home to the Sherbrooke Phoenix of the QMJHL.[1]

For the 1976 Summer Olympics in neighbouring Montreal, it hosted four women and five men's team handball matches.[2][3]

It was home to the Sherbrooke Castors ice hockey team, before their move to Lewiston, Maine as the Lewiston Maineiacs in 2003. It was also home to two AHL hockey teams, the Sherbrooke Jets, and the Sherbrooke Canadiens who became the Fredericton Canadiens in 1990. With the folding of the Lewiston Maineiacs, Sherbrooke receive an expansion QMJHL team (Sherbrooke Phoenix) for the 2012–13 and the team began play at the renovated Palais De Sports. The team is owned by a group led by former NHL goaltender Jocelyn Thibault.

It held the 2015 QMJHL Draft on June 7, 2015.

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