Rexall Place

About Rexall Place

Rexall Place was an NHL arena in Edmonton, Alberta. It opened in 1974 and closed in 2018. Its last recorded capacity was 17,100 in its hockey layout. Its only tenant was Edmonton Oilers (NHL, 1975–2016). On our ranked lists it ranks 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names and 153rd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as Edmonton Coliseum (1995–1997), Skyreach Centre (1998–2002) and Northlands Coliseum (until 1994).

Appears in

• 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 153rd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 7th for most name changes among 26 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 18th shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 10th longest single tenancy (41 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 6th for most name changes among 24 NHL arenas with 3 or more names
• 15th shortest-lived of 34 NHL arenas with known opening and closing years
• 5th shortest-lived of 13 WHA arenas with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

NHL records count overtime and shootout losses as losses.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, general layout, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC0): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, Capacity, concert layout.