Walter Brown Arena is a 3,806-seat multi-purpose arena

Arena

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 in Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

 Terriers women's

Boston Terriers women's ice hockey

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 ice hockey

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Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team

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 and hosted the men's team before they moved to Agganis Arena

Agganis Arena

Agganis Arena is a 7,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on the campus of Boston University. It is named after Harry Agganis, an outstanding football and baseball athlete for BU and the Boston Red Sox. He died at the age of 26, from a massive pulmonary embolism...

. It hosted the first rounds of the 2003 and 2004 America East Conference

America East Conference

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 men's basketball tournaments. It is named in honor of Walter A. Brown

Walter A. Brown

Walter A. Brown was the original owner of the Boston Celtics as well as an important figure in the development of ice hockey in the United States.-Life:...

, the original owner of the Boston Celtics

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, former president of the Boston Bruins

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 and second manager of the Boston Garden

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 (after his father). The arena is part of the Harold Case Physical Education Center, which includes Case Gym

Case Gym

Case Gym is a 1,800-seat multi-purpose arena at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. It opened in 1972 as part of the Harold Case Physical Education Center, and is referred to as "The Roof" because it is located on the top level of the building, above Walter Brown Arena...

 directly above the arena, as well as the former home of student recreation before the opening of the John Hancock Student Village

John Hancock Student Village

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. The building lies in the general area of the left field pavilion seats at the former Braves Field

Braves Field

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, whose right field pavilion and a portion of the field have been converted to neighboring Nickerson Field

Nickerson Field

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.

While it is known as the home of the four men's hockey NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 championships, one of its most famous (and tragic) events was in October 1995, when Travis Roy

Travis Roy

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, a 20-year old freshman hockey player, lost his balance attempting to make a check eleven seconds into his first collegiate hockey shift versus North Dakota

University of North Dakota

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, breaking his neck at the fourth vertebra and paralyzing him from the neck down. His jersey number, 24, is now retired by the hockey team.