Arena Roseau Memorial

Roseau Memorial Arena

The Roseau Memorial Arena located at 315 3rd Avenue NE 56751 in Roseau Minnesota. The Memorial arena features one sheet of artificial ice sizing 200 x 85 ft. with seating capacity for over 2000, that is much needed when interstate rival Warroad High School comes to town. Roseau and Warroad hockey teams have been competing against each other since 1908. The Roseau vs. Warroad interstate rivalry is one of Minnesota's most celebrated sports rivalries, and a big deal in this part of the state where people take their hockey very seriously.

Roseau Memorial arena is an old, wood-ceilinged building erected in 1949 with pine-paneling in the lobby dinged from numerous kids playing "ball-hockey". In Roseau there is a newer ice arena called the Rams sports center located next to Roseau High School, but the Rams High School team prefers the old one in which numerous Division1, Olympic gold medalists, and NHL hockey players have donned the Forest green and white "Rams" sweaters from Roseaus yesteryears. The Memorial Arena was damaged back in 2002 when major flooding damaged more than 90 percent of the properties in Roseau. The citizens of the surrounding communities and Roseau teamed together to revive the town and the old Memorial Arena. Countless kids from Roseau's youth hockey association will once again dream of following in Roseau's past history of "hockey supremacy" that have led the Rams hockey team to be the "Best High School Boys Hockey program in the State of Minnesota," Memorial Arena proudly houses Championship banners that hang in the rafters from: 1946, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1990, 1999, and most recently 2007.

Special thanks to Chad from the Roseau Memorial for information on the Memorial Arena.