Ice hockey arena

An ice hockey arena (or ice hockey venue, or ice hockey stadium) is a sport venue in which an ice hockey competition is held. Alternatively it is used for other sports such as broomball, ringette and rink bandy.

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Multi-purpose arenas

A number of ice hockey arenas were also designed for use by multiple types of sport, such as basketball. In many of these multi-purpose arenas, such as the United Center in Chicago and the Staples Center in Los Angeles, an insulated plywood floor is placed, piece-by-piece, on top of the ice surface, and then the basketball court boards are placed over that.^[1]^[2]

Notable examples

This list is incomplete. See the link above for a more complete list.

Arena names with an asterisk (*) after their city name means that it has either been demolished or is no longer used by any ice hockey teams.

Canada

The Montreal Forum in Montreal* was the home of 24 Stanley Cup Champions
The Bell Centre in Montreal is the largest hockey arena of the National Hockey League.^[3]
Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary was expandable to IIHF rink dimensions
Rogers Arena in Vancouver hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics Men's Hockey Gold Medal match (originally General Motors Place)
Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto* is now partially occupied by the Ryerson Rams' athletic centre, with the remainder housing a Loblaws supermarket
Scotiabank Arena in Toronto (formerly known as Air Canada Centre)
Rogers Place in Edmonton
Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa (originally The Palladium; later known as Corel Centre and Scotiabank Place)
Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg
Videotron Centre in Quebec City

United States

Madison Square Garden in New York City is "The World's Most Famous Arena"
Chicago Stadium in Chicago* was "The Madhouse on Madison"
United Center in Chicago, the replacement for Chicago Stadium
Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles
PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh
Matthews Arena, in Boston, the world's oldest indoor ice hockey venue still in use (opened 1910), hosts the Northeastern Huskies collegiate hockey teams
Boston Garden in Boston* (1928–1995) had an undersized rink because it was built when the NHL had no regulation rink specifications
Appleton Arena in Canton, New York has been home of the St. Lawrence University Skating Saints since opening in 1950
TD Garden in Boston, capacity of 17,565 for Bruins games
Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul
Ball Arena in Denver
American Airlines Center in Dallas
FLA Live Arena in the Miami suburb of Sunrise, Florida
Bridgestone Arena in Nashville
Honda Center in Anaheim
KeyBank Center in Buffalo
Gila River Arena in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Arizona
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale
Nationwide Arena in Columbus
Prudential Center in Newark, known as "The Rock"
SAP Center at San Jose in San Jose
Enterprise Center in St. Louis
Amalie Arena in Tampa
Capital One Arena in Washington
Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia
T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip
Little Caesars Arena in Detroit
PNC Arena in Raleigh
Ingalls Rink at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut

Gallery

Centre Bell in Montreal
Night view of Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary
Joe Louis Arena in Detroit
Nokia Arena in Tampere
National Ice Centre in Nottingham
Helsinki Halli in Helsinki
Veltins-Arena during the opening game of the 2010 IIHF World Championship, which was attended by 77,803 people.

References

^ "Game Changers: How the United Center is converted from ice to hardwood". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
^ Mitchell, Houston (2012-04-16). "Staples Center changes from basketball to hockey in time-lapse video". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
^ January 27th, 2010 Montreal, QP @ Centre Bell

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ice hockey venues.

Ice Hockey Arena
Hockeyarenas.net Information about ice hockey arenas from around the world
rinktime.com A directory of Ice Hockey Arenas Throughout North America established 1997