Sadlon Arena

Sadlon Arena (formerly known as the Barrie Molson Centre) is a 4,195-seat multi-purpose arena in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It is primarily home to the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League. It is located in the south end of the city on Bayview Drive at Mapleview Drive, near Park Place.

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Sadlon Arena

"BMC"
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Address	555 Bayview Drive Barrie, Ontario L4N 8Y2
Coordinates	44°20′16″N 79°40′41″W / 44.33778; -79.67806][[Category:Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas]]"},"html":"Coordinates: </templatestyles>\"}' data-mw='{\"name\":\"templatestyles\",\"attrs\":{\"src\":\"Module:Coordinates/styles.css\"},\"body\":{\"extsrc\":\"\"}}'/>44°20′16″N 79°40′41″W / 44.33778°N 79.67806°W / 44.33778; -79.67806"}">
Owner	City of Barrie
Operator	City of Barrie
Capacity	Hockey: 4,195 East End Stage: 4,801 Centre Stage: 5,000 Wrestling: 5,400 Standing Room: 100 people (North East Corner and the South East Corners of the arena bowl) Luxury suites: 27 - 14 at ice level and 13 at the top of the seating area on the Southside of the arena
Construction
Broke ground	November 1994
Opened	December 31, 1995
Construction cost	CA$13 million ($23.3 million in 2023 dollars[1])
Architect	Brisbin Brook Beynon Architects
Services engineer	The Mitchell Partnership Inc.
General contractor	PCL Constructors Eastern Inc.
Tenants
Barrie Colts (OHL) (1995–present) Barrie Lakeshores (MSL) (2004–2007) Barrie Blizzard (CLax) (2013–2016) Monsignor Clair Cup (1999-present)

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The arena hosted its first OHL game on December 31, 1995, when the Barrie Colts hosted the Sudbury Wolves.^[2] The Colts played the first half of their inaugural season at the old Dunlop Arena while the BMC was under construction. It is the former home of the Barrie Lakeshores of Major Series Lacrosse.^[3] The Molson Centre hosted the 2013 The Dominion Tankard, the provincial curling championship.^[4]

The naming agreement for the Barrie Molson Centre ended on December 31, 2018.^[5] As a result, the City of Barrie placed an interim sign on the arena with the initials BMC until a new sponsor was found.^[6] On November 26, 2019, the city announced that a new, 10-year naming rights agreement with Paul Sadlon Motors (a local auto dealership) had been approved that will change the name of the facility to "Sadlon Arena".^[7]