Crescent Arena, also known as Crescent Rink and Saskatoon Arena, was an indoor

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History

Crescent Rink was built in the late 1910s on Spadina Crescent East in downtown Saskatoon. This was the site of the former Auditorium Roller Rink, a hardwood-floor rink that could be repurposed for

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; the Roller Rink had opened in 1910 but burned down in 1914. Crescent Rink opened in 1920, and it became the home of the

Saskatoon Sheiks The Saskatoon Sheiks were a professional ice hockey team in the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) and Prairie Hockey League (PrHL) from 1921 to 1928. The team played their home games at the Crescent Arena in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Hist ...

professional hockey team, which played in the

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from 1921 to 1926 and the

Prairie Hockey League The Prairie Hockey League (PHL) was a Canadian professional ice hockey league in Alberta and Saskatchewan that was created following the demise of the Western Hockey League in 1926. It operated for two seasons. The creation of the league was an ...

from 1926 to 1928. After briefly relocating to

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during the 1921–22 season, the team returned to Saskatoon and was known as the Saskatoon Crescents for the 1922–23 season before readopting the Sheiks name. The Sheiks won the last Prairie Hockey League championship in 1928. Crescent Rink was demolished in 1932 to make way for the construction of the Broadway Bridge, a Depression relief-work project. A replacement for Crescent Rink, Saskatoon Arena, opened in 1937, two blocks to the west.

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{{reflist Defunct ice hockey venues in Canada Sports venues in Saskatoon Defunct indoor arenas in Canada

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