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What is the best and the worst arenas that you have played at in the metro area?

carlton is the worst place to go I played for Duluth last year and used that hole for practice and games what a DUMP.............

oscar johnson and all those other arenas towards downtown

Biff Adams as well as Northfield are terrible

I liked playing in Mariucci and IGH has a good facility

i believe we just had a topic similar to this.

wait that was in the high school forum

Blaine Superrink is by far the best there is...Plymouth Ice Center is very nice also, id say those are the 2 best. Maybe eagan, fogarty, idk

White Bear Sports Center = Good
White Bear County = fast ice, poopy visitor locker rooms

Other than that Plymoth is very nice, Minnetonka (high school), MARS in Duluth, Aldrich, most any place with good lighting and locker rooms.

Plymouth is amazing only if you play on either the A or C rinks though... A is the olympic size which is fun to play on more open ice and faster games

burnsville rink 1 is also nice, big locker rooms and the ice and tall glass is nice

Minnesota made arena has the worst ice ever and it is freezing cold in the locker rooms and on the ice

The best rink by far is Osseo West. The ice is soooo hard and nice.

The absoute worst rink is VMIA......Shady

Best ice:
MARS Lakeview-Duluth
New Warroad Ice (Name slipped my mind)
BIG #?-Bloomington (The big sheet-I think its BIG 3)
St. Cloud MAC (I bit warm sometimes though)


Worst Ice:
Elk River-One of the sheets there was always a pool because the heat was always turned all the way up
Old Warroad Ice- Plywood boards, no glass, bad lighting.
Carlton-Lighting makes it look like the froze urine instead of water-murder lights everywhere.

by far the worst arena is proctors. hands down.

In my opinion Proctor's arena isn't great, but the ice isn't too bad

iceprofet07 wrote:In my opinion Proctor's arena isn't great, but the ice isn't too bad

hmm yah the ice is good except for the fact its not even flat....on the far end if you pay attention you can feel it go up and then down

I'm not saying the ice is the greatest, but I've played on on far worse is all. Guess I've never noticed the variations in the ice though.


edit: typo

The IGH arena is the top of the line. the ice is perfect and has decent locker rooms.

The worst ive played in was a rink in stillwater. i had a game there and im pretty sure that it was in a barn. it was terrible

chuck-a-puck wrote:The IGH arena is the top of the line. the ice is perfect and has decent locker rooms.

The worst ive played in was a rink in stillwater. i had a game there and im pretty sure that it was in a barn. it was terrible

what are you talking about? stillwaters two rinks are the farthest thing from barns and the varsity one is actually pretty nice

DAbears25 wrote:

chuck-a-puck wrote:The IGH arena is the top of the line. the ice is perfect and has decent locker rooms.

The worst ive played in was a rink in stillwater. i had a game there and im pretty sure that it was in a barn. it was terrible

what are you talking about? stillwaters two rinks are the farthest thing from barns and the varsity one is actually pretty nice

what is the rink connected to the one where the mighty ducks was filmed. that was by far the worst one i ever played at. but even that rink too, i wasnt too impressed by it.

i think your thinking about columbia in fridley....

well it must be a different area then cause it wasnt nice at all. i could be thinking of the wrong city too

ur talkin about parade south
north is the nice one i think

Your my man, iceprofet07. Carlton is by far the worst rink. We used that rink last for Duluth JGA practice and it was nothing to write home too. And if you want to meet some of the most homegrown hicks stop by and grab a seat and watch. I will say the outdoor rink isnt too bad, maybe the should sell that ice instead of so-called ice they have in that tin shed. Watch out for the bathrooms if you call them bathrooms...

any rink that doesnt have a shower is bad... end of story