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An ice hockey rink is an ice rink that is specifically designed for ice hockey, a competitive team sport. ... also known as IIHF or Olympic size. ...
The ice sheet was Olympic sized (200 by 100 feet or 61 by 30 metres) from 1993 to 2023, when construction began on reducing the rink floor size. The women's ice hockey team played at Mariucci from 1997 until 2002 when they moved to Ridder Arena, which is connected to Mariucci via a tunnel.
A portion of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the world's largest naturally frozen "ice rink" or skating trail. An example of an ice skating trail, or "rink", is the Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, estimated at 165,600 m 2 (1,782,000 sq ft) and 7.8 km (4.8 mi) long, which is equivalent to 90 Olympic-size skating rinks.
The Father David Bauer Olympic Arena is an ice hockey arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It seats about 1,750 for hockey with a standing room capacity of over 2,000. It is named after Father David Bauer. [1] Canada's defunct national touring team, the brainchild of Bauer, also staged tryouts there. The arena was built in 1963. [2]
Both the Wildcats men's ice hockey and Wildcats women's ice hockey team play their home games at the arena. The hockey rink originally had a full Olympic-sized sheet of ice, 60 by 30 metres (197 ft × 98 ft), but the rink was reduced slightly to "NHL size", 200 by 90 feet (61 by 27 m), during a 2022 renovation.
The hockey rink's dimensions are 60 metres (200 ft) × 30 metres (98 ft), in line with the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) specifications. This contrasts with the dimensions of the previous Olympics, which utilized National Hockey League (NHL) sized rinks that are 4 metres (13 ft) narrower in width. [13]
St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink in 1928 hosted the ice hockey events. Twenty years later, the venue hosted them again. Jordal Amfi hosted ice hockey events for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Gjøvik Olympiske Fjelhall hosted 16 ice hockey matches for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
For the first time, Olympic Games were played on a narrower NHL-sized ice rink, measuring 61 m × 26 m (200 ft × 85 ft), instead of the international size of 61 m × 30 m (200 ft × 98 ft). By permitting the use of existing venues without rink modifications, this was expected to save $10 million (CAD) in construction costs and allow more ...