| Stadium Name: | Centre Étienne Desmarteau |
| Address: | 3430 Rue de Bellechasse |
| Location: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Opened: | 1976 |
| Owner: | City of Montreal |
| Surface: | Multi-surface |
| Tenants: | Montreal Mission (NRL) |
| Seating Capacity: | Hockey 2,200 (Caroline Ouellette rink 1) |
The Centre Étienne Desmarteau is a multi-purpose complex with two ice rinks in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The centre is named in honour of Étienne Desmarteau, a Canadian Olympic athlete during the 1904 Summer Olympics. The arena hosted the basketball preliminaries during the 1976 Summer Olympics.[1] Following the Olympics, it has been used mostly as an ice hockey venue, while the gyms are used for a variety of sports including indoor soccer, basketball and rhythmic gymnastics.
The first ice rink in the complex has 2,200 seats and is named after Caroline Ouellette.[2] [3] The second, smaller rink, the Ice rink Jean Trottier,[4] has a 600-person seating capacity. There are also two Olympic gymnasiums, some changing rooms, and one weights room for training.
It was once home to Montreal Juniors hockey team and Les Canadiennes a women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. The Montreal Mission, a professional team in the National Ringette League, calls the arena home. Furthermore, numerous amateur tournaments are held in it every year.[5] The upstairs gym contains the home of the Club Rythmik Quebec,[6] a rhythmic gymnastics club offering training up to international level, as well as recreational, pre-competitive, and parent and child classes.