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. The capacity of the arena is 7,909 for

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games and 11,000 for concerts which makes it the 8th largest ice hockey arena in Sweden. The arena is the home arena of the

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ice hockey team. The arena had in the early 2010s two 4 kW vertical axis

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manufactured by

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. They have since been removed.

History

Originally named ''Gavlerinken'', the arena was opened on 28 September 1967. In 2005, the municipality of Gävle sold the arena to Brynäs IF which re-built it and sold the

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, manufacturer of the

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s, and it re-opened as ''Läkerol Arena'' on 13 November 2006. After the municipality of Gävle re-acquired the

in June 2014, they changed the name of the arena to ''Gavlerinken Arena'' for the following five seasons (through 2018–19). Following the expiration of this deal, on 20 September 2019 a new deal was reached with

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to rename the arena Monitor ERP Arena for the following five seasons (through 2023–24). In

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and

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, the arena hosted a semi-final of

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References

External links

Hockeyarenas.net entry
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History

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