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KATU said the Portland Winter Ice Rink was the city's first outdoor ice rink in more than 30 years, the previous one being at Pioneer Courthouse Square in 1989. [9] The opening ceremony was attended by Mayor Ted Wheeler and featured speakers and the mascots of the Portland Pickles , Portland Trail Blazers , and the Portland Winterhawks .
In Germany, the first ice skating rink opened in 1882 in Frankfurt during a patent exhibition. It covered 520 m 2 (5,600 sq ft) and operated for two months; the refrigeration system was designed by Jahre Linde, [7] and was probably the first skating rink where ammonia was used as a refrigerant. Ten years later, a larger rink was permanently ...
The Lake Placid Rink was an outdoor ice rink that was used for various winter sports including speed skating, figure skating and ice hockey.The venue was in use through the end of the 1932 Winter Olympics, after which it was replaced by the Jack Shea Arena and James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.
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John S. Glas Fieldhouse was a 2,399-seat hockey rink in Bemidji, Minnesota, United States. It was home to the Bemidji State University Beavers men's and women's ice hockey teams until October 2010. The building, a part of a larger fieldhouse which contains the BSU Gymnasium and other athletic facilities, is now an artificial turf training area.
During this time, the team's home rink was the UConn Ice Arena, an outdoor facility. The team was finally promoted to D-I in 1998 when the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum was completed. The Huskies used the Forum as their home for the next 18 years. In 2014, UConn joined Hockey East despite the Ice Forum not meeting the league's requirements. [2]
Samuel Noble Wible, owner of the Wible Ice and Cold Storage company, was granted a permit to build an ice hockey rink on his industrial park in January 1932. By year's end, the region's first artificial ice hockey rink opened. The Wible rink was smaller than a standard rink of the day, with most surfaces being 200' by 90' or thereabouts.
The build took a year and a half and by May 1981 the new facility was opened to the public. The rink has proven popular over the years, with public and community ice skating, ice hockey, curling and other ice sports being played at the arena by people of all ages. Throughout the history of the rink, it has remained a family business with Ross ...