Arthur Griffiths has been telling ... looking for a second tenant for GM Place, Griffiths and his management team had their eyes on an Arena Football League franchise. The group met with Phoenix ...

If he did it again, Arthur Griffiths still wouldn’t ask for government funding to build his own hockey arena. When Rogers Arena, then GM Place, opened in 1995, long-ago Canucks owner Griffiths ...

and Arthur Griffiths later took control of the team and built their new home, the GM Place arena. In 1995, Arthur Griffiths brought the NBA to town with the Vancouver Grizzlies, which also ...

until Arthur Griffiths sold his remaining shares in 1997. Griffiths was instrumental in the construction of the team’s current downtown arena, General Motors Place (now Rogers Arena).

Arthur Griffiths (left ... Hockey Hall of Fame inductee this fall. Griffiths opened General Motors Place, Canada’s first privately financed arena since Maple Leaf Gardens, in 1995.