WINDSOR, Ontario — People are still playing hockey at the hulking old building on the corner of Wyandotte and McDougall Streets in downtown Windsor, but not for much longer. Within a few days, the Windsor Arena will most likely host the last of the tens of thousands of hockey games played over the past 87 years beneath the arched steel girders that hold up its wooden roof.

On Saturday, the University of Windsor men’s hockey team played the last regular-season game of its Ontario University Athletics season, the players’ shots echoing off the same cinder-block walls that once deflected the sounds of Hall of Famers like Duke Keats, Howie Morenz and Bill Cook.

“I remember walking in here for the first time when I was 8,” said Kevin Hamlin, the 50-year-old University of Windsor coach who also played in the arena as a Windsor Spitfire and as an opponent for other Ontario Hockey League teams. “Frankly, even now when I walk in I feel like it’s a special place. I can’t quite believe it’s closing.”

Windsor Arena is among the oldest hockey rinks with spectator seating. (Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena, which opened in 1910, is believed to be the oldest.) When Windsor Arena opened as the Border Cities Arena in November 1925, the Montreal Forum was a year old. The old Madison Square Garden on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets was a month away from opening. Maple Leaf Gardens would not be built until six years later.