Played in a mall ? NHL size rink

[jason37 2]

yeah..i played at Palisades for years never great ice, even worse at 1015pm...now I'm skating in TX at some malls (Grapevine, Arlington even stonebriar a couple times..) outside of some dude dropping his half-caf decaf double doppio soy grande on the rink its been alright..still better than Addison

I am planning on going to a drop in Sunday morning in Arlington ... how is the ice out there?

[donkey87 0]

yeah..i played at Palisades for years never great ice, even worse at 1015pm...now I'm skating in TX at some malls (Grapevine, Arlington even stonebriar a couple times..) outside of some dude dropping his half-caf decaf double doppio soy grande on the rink its been alright..still better than Addison

I am planning on going to a drop in Sunday morning in Arlington ... how is the ice out there?

The ice is good for about 15 minutes, then it torn up pretty badly. If the weather stays cold the ice won't be as bad.

[U of M Goalie 0]

Palisades Center in West Nyack, NY.......I am from MI my girlfriend is from NY. She recently graduated from U of M and has gone back home. She tells me all the time about the rink at the mall. Every time I visit her I wanna bring my goalie stuff and play there, but after reading some of these reviews maybe it's better I dont. She lives right near the damn place and since I plan on moving out there to be closer to her I figured thats not bad, an ice rink in her mall like 15 mins from her house. I have now lowered my expecations lol

[whbd18 0]

The Hartford Wolf Pack play in a mall :)

Last time I was at the Civic Center, there was no stores as they are remodeling. But I guess technically they are in a mall.

A rink I played in New Rochelle, NY was in a small mall, but the rink was in its own building with access through the mall. There was also a bean shaped ice sheet in the middle of the mall though for public skating.

[GH_ID 0]

Galeries de la Capitale in Québec is pretty cool. There's a roller coaster just on top of the ice with kids screaming and the the roof is all glass so when you're playing at day time there's sun on like half of the ice. Pretty weird experience, but the ice is really to soft because of the temperature.

[hawks19 0]

Ya i played in that Quebec mall for the pee-wee tournament. The roller coaster was horrible, it was so annoying to hear that roar and screaming every couple of minutes. Also played at the west edmonton mall rink a few times, and the sun was really bad, we would all wear that black eye make up under our eyes to try and help the sun.

[Justin K. 0]

They've now closed the Chapel Hills mall ice rink in Colorado Springs. Never did anything but sticks n pucks there, but the ice was bad, in fact it sloped down at the edges so pucks would be attracted to the boards...

[forsberg91 0]

They've now closed the Chapel Hills mall ice rink in Colorado Springs. Never did anything but sticks n pucks there, but the ice was bad, in fact it sloped down at the edges so pucks would be attracted to the boards...

Thank god!!! That was the worst ice I think I've ever played on...And it doesnt help being able to smell the delicious Chinese food from the food court...

[penaltybox 0]

The hockey classes my local rink offers are in a mall. The ice is only 3/4 regulation size unfortunately (which makes 5-on-5 scrimmages really clogged up), but the worst part is the climate control.

See, in a mall, the management wants the climate to be comfortable for the shoppers, who probably aren't wearing hockey gear, nor skating up and down the ice working up a sweat. This means that if you are wearing hockey gear and skating, it feels like it's about 120 deg F, all the time. You start sweating the minute you step onto the ice, even standing still.

And yeah, the ice is pretty roughed up. The zamboni doesn't have brushes, so the ice is really terrible in the corners, pretty bad along the walls, and halfway decent in the middle (assuming they've run the zamboni since the last public skate, anyway). You can kill yourself going into the corner and hitting a dip or a bubble.

That said, it's better than not skating or playing. ;) And I figure if I can learn to skate on that stuff I ought to do fine on a decent sheet (which they have, at their actual rink location).

Sounds like the mall I practice at....(Northcross mall)

[moose77 0]

I used to play in one up in Portland.  It was in a shitty mall and it had no dressing rooms, so everyone in the food court could look down and see kids changing.  In fact, I think it was the rink Tonya Harding trained at.

Several years back, I drove 5 hours down to Oregon to take a Robby Glantz power skating clinic at that rink because it was the closest one offered to me that summer. Plus, it was a chance to get away from the family for a weekend and have a fun time in Portland.

That rink would be the rink in the Clackamas Town Center. I remember that place didn't have glass around the ends, but rather some netting they'd pull into place to catch pucks that left the ice. As mentioned, no dressing rooms existed. I did some changing in the men's room and finished up outside in the back of the rink on a bench. It was freakin' HOT! One of my biggest fears actually happened, as some yo-yo's up in the food court were throwing pennies onto the ice. Luckily, no one skated over one and had an accident while we were doing drills.

This was in fact the rink Tonya Harding trained at before the Olympics. This fact wasn't lost on those I told where I was going for the weekend. One of the most common questions I was asked was "you're going to be wearing knee protection, right?". Luckily no large men appeared at any time with collapsable batons.

Apparently, this rink is no longer in operation at this mall and has been turned into a play area for kids. However last I heard the God-awful rink at Lloyd Center is still in operation in Portland, complete with the one squared-off corner so you can't play hockey on it.

[kosydar 0]

Yeah as far as I know, the Lloyd Center rink is still open. Its way too small to play hockey on though. Plus that mall is ghetto as hell, I don't know why anyone would want to hang out there.

[cracker_jack 0]

The hockey classes my local rink offers are in a mall. The ice is only 3/4 regulation size unfortunately (which makes 5-on-5 scrimmages really clogged up), but the worst part is the climate control.

See, in a mall, the management wants the climate to be comfortable for the shoppers, who probably aren't wearing hockey gear, nor skating up and down the ice working up a sweat. This means that if you are wearing hockey gear and skating, it feels like it's about 120 deg F, all the time. You start sweating the minute you step onto the ice, even standing still.

And yeah, the ice is pretty roughed up. The zamboni doesn't have brushes, so the ice is really terrible in the corners, pretty bad along the walls, and halfway decent in the middle (assuming they've run the zamboni since the last public skate, anyway). You can kill yourself going into the corner and hitting a dip or a bubble.

That said, it's better than not skating or playing. ;) And I figure if I can learn to skate on that stuff I ought to do fine on a decent sheet (which they have, at their actual rink location).

Sounds like the mall I practice at....(Northcross mall)

sounds like Eastland Mall in Charlotte NC

[Langenbrunner15 0]

I play in the Palisades Center Mall in West Nyack, NY. Crappiest rink ever, as there are chips on the ice all over, a little slushy and also the poles are in the middle of the benches and also the benches to view the fgame is horrible.

[Langenbrunner15 0]

The hockey classes my local rink offers are in a mall. The ice is only 3/4 regulation size unfortunately (which makes 5-on-5 scrimmages really clogged up), but the worst part is the climate control.

See, in a mall, the management wants the climate to be comfortable for the shoppers, who probably aren't wearing hockey gear, nor skating up and down the ice working up a sweat. This means that if you are wearing hockey gear and skating, it feels like it's about 120 deg F, all the time. You start sweating the minute you step onto the ice, even standing still.

And yeah, the ice is pretty roughed up. The zamboni doesn't have brushes, so the ice is really terrible in the corners, pretty bad along the walls, and halfway decent in the middle (assuming they've run the zamboni since the last public skate, anyway). You can kill yourself going into the corner and hitting a dip or a bubble.

That said, it's better than not skating or playing. ;) And I figure if I can learn to skate on that stuff I ought to do fine on a decent sheet (which they have, at their actual rink location).

Sounds like the mall I practice at....(Northcross mall)

Also sounds like the Pallisades Mall Ice Rink...

[hockeyblood 11]

I just thought I share these pictures I took while on vacation.

"Mall of Asia" Manila Philippines, some parts of the Ice are pretty soft because the other side have a glass roof.

[t1tan 19]

My senior year in highschool we added a new rink to our league to play at in some mall, forgot which one in Houston, TX. The ice was decent compared to other rinks there, but it was sooooo hot, I swear I'd sweat just as much sitting on the bench as I would actually playing. Our coach tried to make us wear neckguards too, so that didn't help, that's when I got the team to revolt and stop wearing them. It was a nice mall though, locker rooms were decent size, bigger than most of the rinks in the area.