Ice hockey arena

{{Short description|Sport venue in which an ice hockey competition is held}}

File:Climate Pledge Arena in Kraken configuration - view from SE upper tier.jpg in Seattle, pictured in October 2021, home of the Seattle Kraken, the newest arena in the NHL]]

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.

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.{{cite web | title=Game Changers: How the United Center is converted from ice to hardwood | url=http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/gamechangers/ | publisher=Chicago Tribune | accessdate=2017-02-20}}{{cite web | title=Staples Center changes from basketball to hockey in time-lapse video | url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2012-apr-16-la-sp-sn-video-staples-center-changes-basketball-hockey-20120416-story.html | first=Houston | last=Mitchell | work=Los Angeles Times | date=2012-04-16 | access-date=2017-02-20}}

Notable examples

{{see also|List of ice hockey arenas by capacity}}

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.

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Gallery

File:Intérieur du Centre Bell Center Inside.JPG|Centre Bell in Montreal

File:PengrowthSaddledomeNight.jpg|{{center|Night view of Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary}}

File:Joe-Louis-Arena.jpg|{{center|Joe Louis Arena in Detroit}}

File:Nokia Arena and Hotel March 2022.jpg|Nokia Arena in Tampere

File:Nottingham Panthers vs Cardiff Devils April 2011.jpg|{{center|National Ice Centre in Nottingham}}

File:Jokerit vs. Dinamo.jpeg|Helsinki Halli in Helsinki

File:Eroeffnungsspiel eishockey wm 2010.jpg|Veltins-Arena during the opening game of the 2010 IIHF World Championship, which was attended by 77,803 people.

See also

References

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