Aren'Ice

Aren'Ice, also known under the working name Centre national du Hockey sur Glace (English: National Ice Hockey Center), is a multi-purpose arena primarily used as an ice rink, located in Cergy, Val-d'Oise, France. It is both the French Ice Hockey Federation's national training center, and the home ice for professional ice hockey team Jokers de Cergy-Pontoise.
==History==
Following the separation of French ice hockey from the French Ice Sports Federation in 2006, Luc Tardif, president of the new ice hockey federation, announced his plans for a federal training center based in the Paris Region.
Various sites came under consideration throughout the selection process: Cergy-Pontoise, La Courneuve (Parc de Marville), Deuil-la-Barre, Drancy, Évry, Pays de Limours (Fontenay-lès-Briis), Marne-la-Vallée, Meudon, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Torcy.
Of these, Cergy-Pontoise, Deuil-la-Barre, Meudon and Évry already had an ice rink and ice hockey club.
Marne-la-Vallée only had an outdoor recreational ice rink (which has since been closed) as part of Disneyland Paris, and no hockey club. One of the resort's top executives in the 1990s was former hockey player Pierre-Yves Gerbeau, but a longstanding grudge with the French hockey brass of the time had made him unreceptive to promotional partnerships.
At the tender submission deadline, the final candidates were: Cergy-Pontoise, La Courneuve, Drancy, Évry and Pays de Limours, with Cergy-Pontoise emerging as the victor.
The building opened to the public on 4 November 2016, with an official inauguration ceremony on 19 November 2016 in presence of Minister of Sports Patrick Kanner. Coincidentally, Cergy's old municipal ice rink, which dated back to 1974, was decommissioned.
Through its various activities and entertainment offerings, Aren'Ice generated more than 200,000 admissions in its first year of operations.
==References==
==External links==
*Official website 
*Résidence Palet at ARPEJ
Category:Indoor ice hockey venues in France