Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena
Location888 Ridge Valley
Irvine, California 92618
Coordinates33°40′39″N 117°44′43″W / 33.67761°N 117.74524°W / 33.67761; -117.74524
OwnerAnaheim Ducks
OperatorIce Management, LLC[1][2]
Capacity2,500 (main arena)
Surface280,000 sq. ft
Construction
Opened2019[3]
Construction cost$110,000,000 USD
ArchitectLPA
Tenants
Anaheim Ducks (2019–present)
Anaheim Jr. Ducks (2019–present)
Anaheim Lady Ducks (2019–present)
ADHSHL (Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League) (2019–present)
San Diego Gulls (2021)
Website
www.greatparkice.com

Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena is a 2,500 seat (FivePoint Arena) 4 rink (3 NHL and 1 Olympic) ice hockey facility in Irvine, California. It serves as the practice facility of the Anaheim Ducks, after leaving Anaheim Ice.[4] The facility includes a team store, restaurant (Between the Rinks), pro shop, arcade, and other amenities. As one of The Rinks facilities, Great Park Ice offers youth and adult hockey, curling, ice skating lessons, figure skating, and public skating hours.[5] The complex is also surrounded by Orange County Great Park which has other sports facilities.

On March 14, 2020, all Ice Management LLC. facilities, including the Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena,[2] suspended all operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] Despite later resuming operations, Anaheim Ice facilities agreed to comply with ongoing California state COVID-19 guidelines in August 2020.[7] As part of the COVID response, the facility has been designated as the temporary home facility for the Ducks' AHL affiliate, San Diego Gulls, for the 2020–21 season instead of their normal home area Pechanga Arena.[8][9]

Great Park Ice's Logo

Between The Rinks

Great Park Ice features Between The Rink Family Restaurant. Also, on floor 1 is the Between The Rinks Café, which fans can get food before, after, or during a game. The Bar and Restaurant features many Flatscreen TVs showing different games. On one of the walls, there are many different hockey pucks with different logos on them. The restaurant serves varieties of pizza, burgers and sandwiches, beer, wine, tacos, and more.[10] As the name suggests, the Restaurant and bar are located between rinks.[11]

Notable events

Games
Date(s) Score(s) Team 1 Team 2 Event Name (promoted as) Notes
December 28–29, 2019 (28) 4 – 1 Harvard Wins [12] Harvard ASU SoCal Clash[13] This was the first time since the 1999 Frozen Four (held at Honda Center) an NCAA Division I contest was held in Southern California.
(29) 5 – 4 (OT2) Harvard Wins[14]
Rink 4 (FivePoint Arena)'s Logo.
Tournaments
Dates Champion(s) Event Notes Ref.
November 17–20, 2022 Tier 1 – Boston Bruins 12th annual USA Hockey Sled Classic, presented by the NHL [15]
Tier 2 – Pittsburgh Penguins
Tier 3 – Boston Bruins
Tier 4 – Colorado Avalanche
Tier 5 – Chicago Blackhawks

FivePoint Arena, its locker rooms, the lobby, and the exterior of Great Park Ice were featured in the season finale of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, a television show based on The Mighty Ducks trilogy. The arena served as the site for a summer showcase, between the fictional Elite Ice Performance Center (EPIC) team, who's under the Ducks banner and an unnamed team from Canada. Anaheim Ducks alternate captain Cam Fowler makes an appearance in the episode, giving the Ducks team customized versions of their 2022 reverse retro jerseys. The names of the arena and entire facility isn't mentioned and is referred to just as the "Anaheim Ducks practice arena," however logos of both the facility and arena are shown in the episode.

Great Park Ice is the site of the Anaheim Ducks' media day, where videos are recorded for the scoreboard at the Honda Center

References

  1. ↑ https://anaheimice.therinks.com/
  2. 1 2 https://irvineinline.therinks.com/general-info/news/facility-update-819 temporarily
  3. ↑ "Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena". Architect Magazine. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  4. ↑ Arritt, Dan. "Ducks owners, Irvine Ice Foundation open $110 million ice facility". NHL.com. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "greatparkice.com". greatparkice.com. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  6. ↑ COVID-19 UPDATE https://anaheimice.therinks.com, March 13, 2020, accessed September 27, 2020
  7. ↑ UPDATE TO FACILITY GUIDELINES https://anaheimice.therinks.com, August 19, 2020, accessed September 27, 2020
  8. ↑ "San Diego Gulls 2020–2021 Season Information | San Diego Gulls". Archived from the original on 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  9. ↑ "San Diego Gulls to temporarily relocate to Irvine". San Diego Union Tribune. January 4, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Between The Rinks Bar & Grill Menu" (PDF). Retrieved May 8, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Between the Rinks – Restaurant & Bar – Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena". www.greatparkice.com. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  12. ↑ "Recap: Men's Ice Hockey vs. Arizona State (SoCal Clash Game 1)". YouTube. December 28, 2019. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena to Host". NHL.com. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  14. ↑ Cameron, Greg (2019-12-29). "Here's the Dornbach goal in 2OT for @HarvardMHockeypic.twitter.com/l7U7GDUvK2". @gregdcam. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  15. ↑ Hockey, U. S. A. (2022-11-10). "2022 USA Hockey Sled Classic, Presented by the NHL, Kicks Off on Nov. 17". USA Hockey. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
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