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Canucks Sports & Entertainment
800 Griffiths Way
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 6G1, Canada
Tel. 604-899-7400
Toll Free 888-672-2229
Fax 604-899-7401

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.canucks.com
 Employees: 50

Bringing the Stanley Cup to Vancouver is the goal for this company. Canucks Sports & Entertainment owns and operates the Vancouver Canucks professional hockey franchise, along with the team's home arena, General Motors Place. The team, which entered the National Hockey League in 1970, has yet to win a Stanley Cup championship but has made two appearances in the finals (its last in 1994, a losing effort to the New York Rangers). Aquilini Investment Group, a local real estate development and investment concern led by Francesco Aquilini, has owned Canucks Sports since 2006.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending June, 2008:
Sales: $10.9M

Officers:
Chairman: Francesco Aquilini
President and CEO: Christopher (Chris) Zimmerman
COO: Victor P. de Bonis

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Canucks Sports & Entertainment
Type Private
Founded 1995 (as Orca Bay Sports & Entertainment)
2008 (present name)[1]
Key people Francesco Aquilini, Chairman
Mike Gillis, President
Victor de Bonis, CEO
Industry Sports, Property management
Products Professional sports teams, Arenas
Operating income $20.3 million [2]
Owner(s) Aquilini Investment Group
Subsidiaries Vancouver Canucks

Canucks Sports & Entertainment, previously known as Orca Bay Sports & Entertainment, is a sports and entertainment company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that owns and operates the Vancouver Canucks National Hockey League team and their home arena, General Motors Place.

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History

The company was created in August 1995 by then co-owners Arthur Griffiths and Seattle billionaire John McCaw, Jr. to operate the Vancouver Canucks and General Motors Place. McCaw later assumed full ownership of the company and its assets in 1996. [3] In November 2004, Vancouver-based investment company the Aquilini Investment Group purchased 50% of the company from McCaw and two years later bought the remaining 50%.

Indiana Pacers

It was reported on May 13, 2009 by local radio station the TEAM 1040 that Francesco Aquilini and Canucks Sports & Entertainment had expressed interest in purchasing the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association and moving the team to Vancouver. A possible deal would depend on if Pacers owners Herbert and Melvin Simon can secure a new lease agreement with the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board who own their home arena, the Conseco Fieldhouse. [4]

Assets

Present

Past

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Canucks Sports & Entertainment replaces Orca Bay Retrieved on 2009-05-13.
  2. ^ 2009 Forbes NHL Team Valuations Retrieved on 2009-12-17.
  3. ^ B.C. businessmen to buy NHL Canucks Retrieved on 2009-05-13.
  4. ^ Aquilini Interested in Indiana Pacers? Retrieved on 2009-05-13.
  5. ^ 2009 Forbes NHL Team Valuations Retrieved on 2009-12-17.
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