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Les Canadiennes de Montréal will be calling the Verdun Auditorium home as of 2019.

The news was announced at the historic auditorium on Monday afternoon, with a slew of politicians on hand, including Montreal mayor Denis Coderre, Verdun mayor Jean-François Parenteau and provincial MNA Isabelle Melançon.

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Meg Hewings, general manager of Les Canadiennes, said moving to Verdun is a great thing for one of Canada’s leading women’s hockey teams. Les Canadiennes used to be called the Montreal Stars and changed their name in September 2015, a few months after entering into a marketing partnership with the Montreal Canadiens.

“The Verdun Auditorium is an incredible facility, it has a history that goes way back in terms of hockey, on the men’s side but on the women’s side, too,” said Hewings. “It’s the right size for us. It’s a 3,000 to 4,000-seat arena, so we’re hoping to grow into that by the time we open in 2019. It’s also a great facility for our athletes in terms of being able to train and compete. So we’ll have our home locker room here and we’ll have a number of amenities. And it’s been difficult for us to find that in the past several years…it’s also close to the metro. It’s accessible.”