# 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.

## 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.

## 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.
* 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 Toronto Metropolitan University and the TMU Bold ice hockey, basketball, and volleyball teams, 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, 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* (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
* 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
* 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
* Lenovo Center in Raleigh
* Ingalls Rink at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
* Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle

### Finland

* Helsinki Halli in Helsinki
* Nokia Arena in Tampere

### Germany

* Lanxess Arena in Cologne

### Czech Republic

* O2 Arena in Prague

### Russia

* Megasport Arena in Moscow

### Sweden

* Avicii Arena in Stockholm
* Scandinavium in Gothenburg

### Switzerland

* PostFinance Arena in Bern

### Italy

* The Stadio olimpico del ghiaccio in Cortina d'Ampezzo was the main venue of the 1956 Winter Olympics.
* The Palasport Olimpico in Turin was the main venue of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

### United Kingdom

* Odyssey Arena in Belfast
* Braehead Arena in Glasgow
* National Ice Centre in Nottingham
* iceSheffield in Sheffield
* Sheffield Arena in Sheffield
* Fife Ice Arena in Kirkcaldy
* Coventry Skydome in Coventry
* Dundee Ice Arena in Dundee
* Murrayfield Ice Rink in Edinburgh
* Planet Ice in Altrincham
* Blackburn Arena in Blackburn
* Manchester Arena in Manchester* was home to Manchester Storm (1995–2002 – Relaunched in 2015 playing at Altrincham Ice Dome)
* Ice Arena Wales in Cardiff

## 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.