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Denis Savard, a hockey player who left his mark on Verdun

Never has a local athlete been such a focus of attention on the national and international scene as Denis Savard. He is the pride and joy of Verdun […]

Wrestling at the Verdun Auditorium: a phenomenon that has been around for a long time

As soon as it opened to the public, the Auditorium hosted wrestling galas. These large-scale events, where muscle mass and athletic feats are highlighted, were very popular in […]

International wrestling galas at the Auditorium

In the early 2000s, the Auditorium hosted the annual Christmas wrestling galas of Jacques Rougeau Jr., whose career in the wrestling world spanned 35 years and who organized […]

A historic boxing match in Verdun

On October 31, 1978, the Verdun Auditorium welcomed a boxing match that went down in history. That evening, two athletes fought each other in the first of three […]

Synchronized athletes on the Auditorium rink

In 1994, the Verdun Auditorium welcomed the Canadian Synchronized Skating Championships. In this figure skating discipline, 16-20 skaters work as a team, moving together during most of their […]

Auditorium catches fire as the Olympic Games approach

At the time of the Montréal Olympic Games in 1976, several cities in Québec and Ontario welcomed the Olympic flame for a few moments. This honour was bestowed […]

A hockey series that revived the rivalry between Montréal and Québec City

La série Montréal-Québec was a TV series featuring 32 hockey players, age 18 and over, forming two hockey teams: the Montréal team and the Québec City team. Each […]

The opening show is truly dazzling!

La série Montréal-Québec was a large-scale production at the Verdun Auditorium, not only because of the technical complexity of the project, but also for its sensational aspect. In […]

Renovations that restore a classy style!

Temporarily closed to the public for a facelift in the fall of 2016, the Auditorium and Aréna Denis-Savard are scheduled to reopen in summer 2018. The planned renovations […]

Recollections of the “Three Denis”

Jean-François Parenteau: Well, the “three Denis”, they are in fact more like memories that I heard about in the community, what people told me about them. Obviously, Denis […]

La Série Montréal – Québec at the Verdun Auditorium

Daniel Belliveau: La Série Montréal-Québec, that was a really particular event for me. It was large scale from a technical standpoint. Just for HD TV, we had to […]

The filming of the Jean Béliveau Docu-drama

Daniel Belliveau: For the Jean Béliveau filming, I had to modify a lot of things here. I had to change the glass, glass from Aréna Denis-Savard for those […]