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 Crypto.com Arena 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.
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
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, replacement for Chicago Stadium, and the second largest arena by capacity in the National Hockey League
- 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* (1928âÂÂ1995) 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
- Amerant Bank Arena in the Miami suburb of Sunrise, Florida
- Bridgestone Arena in Nashville
- Honda Center in Anaheim
- KeyBank Center in Buffalo
- Desert Diamond 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
- Benchmark International Arena in Tampa
- Capital One Arena in Washington
- Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia
- T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip
- Little Caesars Arena in Detroit
- Lenovo Center in Raleigh
- Ingalls Rink at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
- Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle
Finland
Germany
Czech Republic
Russia
Sweden
Switzerland
Italy
United Kingdom
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