The St. Michael's College School Arena is a 1,600-seat hockey

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, Canada. It was built in 1956 on the campus of

St. Michael's College School St. Michael's College School (also known as St. Michael's, St. Mike's, and SMCS), is an all-boys Catholic private school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Administered by the Congregation of St. Basil, it is the largest school of its kind in Canada ...

in central Toronto, and originally was an outdoor rink. A half-cylinder shape wooden roof was finally built over the ice and completed in 1960. The arena was the home to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors of the

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. The building was originally supposed to serve as a temporary home for the team following the closure of

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in 2000, but the Majors would be at the College Arena until the conclusion of the

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. The team relocated to

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and the Hershey Centre for the

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. The St. Michael's Arena is the home of the St. Michael's Buzzers, a member of the

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as well as the

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teams.

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