The Strathcona Bruins Junior Hockey Club is pleased to announce the Strathcona Olympiette Centre (SOC) as their home arena. The Bruins moved to SOC from the Ardrossan Recreation Complex where they have played under the Strathcona Sabres since their inception into the Capital Junior Hockey League (CJHL) in 1978.
With a capacity of approximately 400 spectator seats and additional standing room around the arena, SOC is one of the largest and brightest facilities in the CJHL. The arena features a fully functional Air Horn and rotating lights above the scoreboard used every time the Bruins score a goal. The facility features a full sized ice surface and miniature ice surface roughly a 1/3 the size of a regular hockey rink. Adjoining the arena, a five-sheet curling rink complete with its own lobby and lounge. Along with a fully functional kitchen located upstairs, SOC is one of the premier multi-purpose facilities located within Strathcona County.
The main ice surface features a full sized centre ice Strathcona Bruins logo, one of the few arenas within the Edmonton area to have that privilege (Rexall Place is the only other arena displaying a logo to that magnitude). In the future the Bruins are looking to add their own private dressing room to accommodate the players, along with a fully functional fitness facility to be located within the arena to be used by the Bruins Junior Hockey Club, and the players and parents who frequently use the facility.
Without the support of Strathcona County, and the staff who take care of SOC Arena, the Bruins would not exist at SOC. The Bruins appreciate and thank those people who make playing and frequenting SOC a pleasant experience.
In 2021, the Bruins were taken over by the Strathcona Minor Hockey Association, their local minor hockey association for the area.
