How Many Rinks Have You Skated At?

[shoeshine boy 242]

That story about the effects rinks can have on your health is somewhat alarming when you think about how much time you spend in a rink, I play about 100/games a year and then go to my kids games/practices 40+/per year(but then you think about hockey and the thought passes)

yeah but you know, I spent 10 years working with photographic chemicals so whatever's going to happen is going to happen.

[badger_14 601]

Man, I thought I'd been to quite a few until I saw all the "100+" responses. :) But considering I've only been playing a few years, I've been to more than I thought I had - Hockeytown/Saugus, Babson College, Daly Rink, Reilly Rink (many years ago), Salem State, Peabody, Valley Sports Concord, St Laurent community center and Carleton University in Ottawa, Waltham, Watertown, West Roxbury, Revere, Cambridge, and New England Sports Center. 15 total. I feel like I've been on a tour of half the state-owned rinks in MA.

[sickwilly 37]

I got to 125 before I gave up. I think I counted most of them.

[Scoobersti 0]

I think I'm at around 25, I've played total of about 10 years of hockey but, I only played 5 years of youth hockey and other 5 in beer leagues so mostly same rinks in beer league. I would probably be in 30-35 range if I didn't miss couple of road trips with injuries when I played on a travel team in the last few years of my youth hockey days.

[lampliter87 8]

That's the reason mine is so high, I played youth hockey including spring tournament teams, high school, prep school, and 3 different junior leagues.

[txhockey 0]

7 (and thats inline and ice)

[McDougalfaschnitzer 32]

I played at so many rinks, it's hard to keep track. I'd say in the 50-100 range.

[Cams 7]

I am at over 20 arenas played in, but here are the ones I can think of for sure of the top of my head. Most are in the Windsor, Ontario / Essex County region:

Start with Windsor/Essex County:

Windsor Arena

WFCU Centre

Riverside (now closed)

Adie Knox

South Windsor

Adstoll (now closed)

Forest Glade

Tecumseh

St. Clair Beach (now closed - had chain link fence instead of glass on 1 of the ice surfaces!)

Belle River

Essex (old one)

Amherstburg

Kingsville

Leamington (old one)

Leamington (new)

Harrow

La Salle (old one)

Ice Park

still in Ontario:

Chatham Arena (Memorial Arena maybe?)

some old arena near Hunstville, ONT (can't think of the name or if it's still around) Did a CanAm tournament there a good 10 years ago or more. Great old, and I mean OLD small building, stayed at Deerhurst resort - anyone from this neck of the woods can help me out?

Southeast Michigan:

Oak Park Arena

long time ago - a rink in Southfield against Little Cesars team

Joe Louis Arena

a rink or 2 also - near U of Michigan (Ann Arbor) for a U of M business school tournament. I think the final was at Yost and we didn't make it there - I played for Cornell through some friends of mine. :)

[iceNsteel 0]

Somewhere in the low 100's. I've been playing for 23 years now, so I don't think I could actually come up with the exact number.

[lampliter87 8]

Sat down with my dad to actually count these up.

ON: 24.

QC: 1

NY: 35

VT: 2

PA: 8

IN: 1

NH: 8

ME: 3

NJ: 5

MA: 7

Total that I can remember: 94.

Doens't include outdoor rinks or complexes with multiple arenas.

[Slapshot9123 0]

Playing Travel for 10+ years, Juniors for 1 year going into my second with camps/tryouts included. I am capping out somewhere over 100. Really gotta thank my parents for driving me and my stinky gear all around in those youth days.

[DarkStar50 679]

Truly appreciate the responses from this ?. Over 100+ rinks is like a badge of honor, as far as I'm concerned. What's that old saying, "It's not about the destination, it's about the journey"? Remember the rides to and from those rinks, they say as much as does the game you played there.

[Clark12 0]

I've played at 6 rinks in 4 different countries...

Dundonald Ice Bowl, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Dundalk Ice Dome, Dundalk, Ireland

Charlestown Ice Rink, Dublin, Ireland

Planet Ice, Cardiff, Wales

Queens Road Ice Rink, Sheffield, England

Pretty lame considering some of you guys in the states will have 6 rinks in your town!

[lukejameslarson 5]

All of these are in the Metro Detroit area.

Mount Clemens Ice Arena (Mount Clemens)

Great Lakes Sports City (Fraser)

Viking Ice Arena (Hazel Park)

Suburban Ice Macomb (Macomb Township)

John Lindell Ice Arena (Royal Oak)

Onyx Ice Arena (Rochester)

Troy Sports Center (Troy)

[kr580 2]

Only one. Snoopy's Ice Arena. Take that all you 100+'ers! (I'm just learning hockey and my car won't make it to Oakland/San Jose.)

[DevilsFan38 0]

Not too many for me, but I've been playing for less than 2 years.

NJ

Floyd Hall

Amerihealth Pavilion

Bridgewater Sports Arena

ProSkate/Princeton Sports Center

Bayonne (Rich Korpi rink)

Beacon Hill Club (outside, definitely the nicest!)

NY

Westchester Skating Arena

Ice Hutch

World Ice Arena

Port Washington Skating Center

The Rink (Ithaca)

[PJaeggi97 0]

MI - 4

OH - 1

TN - 1

CO - 3

AL - 1

ME - 1

NH - 1

MA - 2

NY - 20

PA - 3

CT - 3

NJ - 4

MD - 2

VA - 2

NC - 8

SC - 3

GA - 2

FL - 5

CAN - 3

SUI - 12

[RadioGaGa 162]

Pretty small list, compared to some:

Hamilton:

Copps Coliseum

Hamilton Mountain 4-pad

JL Grightmire (Market St.) Arena (Dundas)

Olympic Arena (Dundas)

Chedoke Twin Pad

Dave Andreychuk Mountain Arena

Morgan Firestone Arena (Ancaster)

Coronation Arena

Wentworth Arena

Spring Valley (Ancaster)

Eastwood Arena

Beverly Arena (Flamborough)

Other Ontario Rinks:

MasterCard Centre - Toronto

Wainfleet Arena

Port Colborne (East Side) Arena

US:

Novi Ice Arena

Dombrowski Fieldhouse, Orchard Lake St. Mary's

I think that's all of them.

[EDIT]: Thanks to JR (I assume) who added the names of the Michigan rinks!

[DarkStar50 679]

Not too many for me, but I've been playing for less than 2 years.

NJ

Floyd Hall

Amerihealth Pavilion

Bridgewater Sports Arena

ProSkate/Princeton Sports Center

Bayonne (Rich Korpi rink)

Beacon Hill Club (outside, definitely the nicest!)

NY

Westchester Skating Arena

Ice Hutch

World Ice Arena

Port Washington Skating Center

The Rink (Ithaca)

No Ice House? :(

[sabby47 2]

KS- Wichita Ice Center (home sweet home)

KS Coliseum

Pepsi Ice Midwest

MO- Independence Events Center

Line Creek

NJ- Sovereign Bank Arena

PA- A rink in Cannonsburg where the Pens practice

[Netminder32 32]

Pretty sure I've got them all now. Good memories... :)

In no particular order:

Maple Leaf Gardens

Windsor Arena

South Windsor Arena

Adstoll Arena

W.F.C.U. Centre

Forest Glade Arena

Adie Knox Arena

Riverside Arena

Lanspeary Park

Windsor Ice Park

Tecumseh Arena

Amherstburg Arena

Harrow Arena

Belle River Arena

Century Gardens Arena

Powerade Centre

South Fletchers Arena

Gretzky Sports Complex

Mastercard Centre of Excellence

Mowhawk 4 Ice Centre

LaSalle Centennial Arena

Leamington Kinsmen Rec Complex

Argle Arena

Icelands

Hershey Centre

Canlan Ice Sports - York

Canlan Ice Sports - Victoria Park

Ricoh Colliseum

Novi Ice Arena

Onyx Ice Arena

St. Mary's Orchard Lake

In going through the list of arenas I played at. I was considering my "Bucket List" of arenas that I would still like to play at and discovered I may have missed my chance on one of them. I was reading that the old Niagara Falls Memorial Arena may have been demolished on OHL Arena Guide It no longer appears on the City of Niagara Falls Arenas page for ice rentals. Anyone know if it's really gone?

Other "Bucket List" Arenas I'd like to play (in order):

1) The oldest operating arena in Ontario Galt Arena Gardens

2) Niagara Falls Memorial Arena

3) Cambridge Ice Centre (It's located in the middle of a shopping mall)

4) Mellon Arena

5) The Spectrum

[DevilsFan38 0]

No Ice House? :(

Nope not yet, but a friend of mine is trying to get a pick up game together there in September so maybe I'll add it to the list soon. Oddly enough I haven't played at Ice Vault either, and that's pretty close too.

[Cams 7]

Pretty sure I've got them all now. Good memories... :)

In no particular order:

Maple Leaf Gardens

Windsor Arena

South Windsor Arena

Adstoll Arena

W.F.C.U. Centre

Forest Glade Arena

Adie Knox Arena

Riverside Arena

Lanspeary Park

Windsor Ice Park

Tecumseh Arena

Amherstburg Arena

Harrow Arena

Belle River Arena

Century Gardens Arena

Powerade Centre

South Fletchers Arena

Gretzky Sports Complex

Mastercard Centre of Excellence

Mowhawk 4 Ice Centre

LaSalle Centennial Arena

Leamington Kinsmen Rec Complex

Argle Arena

Icelands

Hershey Centre

Canlan Ice Sports - York

Canlan Ice Sports - Victoria Park

Ricoh Colliseum

Novi Ice Arena

Onyx Ice Arena

St. Mary's Orchard Lake

In going through the list of arenas I played at. I was considering my "Bucket List" of arenas that I would still like to play at and discovered I may have missed my chance on one of them. I was reading that the old Niagara Falls Memorial Arena may have been demolished on OHL Arena Guide It no longer appears on the City of Niagara Falls Arenas page for ice rentals. Anyone know if it's really gone?

Other "Bucket List" Arenas I'd like to play (in order):

1) The oldest operating arena in Ontario Galt Arena Gardens

2) Niagara Falls Memorial Arena

3) Cambridge Ice Centre (It's located in the middle of a shopping mall)

4) Mellon Arena

5) The Spectrum

Galt Arena may be the "oldest" in terms of year built, but Windsor Arena is the oldest continually used arena in N. America! I believe the Galt arena was, for a while, "shut down" and not in use at some point in it's history.

[Fire0nIce228 1]

PA- A rink in Cannonsburg where the Pens practice

Southpointe. I've played there, very cool that the people upstairs exercising can look down and watch the games. Such a nice rink IMO.

Netminder, good luck with Mellon Arena :(

One of the weirdest experiences for me, and I think I left this rink off my list. Travel team played at the Wheeling Nailers arena several times. Very cool experience as weird as it was playing in a big (mostly very empty) arena. One of the fewer rinks I've played at where the penalty box was opposite side of the ice from the benches, as most are on same side.

The weirdness was because the day we played there, the Nailers had a game that night so the locker rooms were used up. I guess they must not have had any other locker rooms because we didnt have one! They had some carpet and rubber mats laid down in the hallway and we had to use a meeting room type of space as our locker room. Individual metal folding chairs, no hooks or shelves and most of the floor was unprotected to skate blades. Just a little bit of carpeting and rubber that was put down for us to walk on infront of the chairs. I always thought it would be cool to have that as a travel teams home rink, playing in a nice facility like that for half of the season.

[CardinalHcky19 0]

I would guess I've skated in 75+ rinks over the years. Canada, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Texas.