Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena

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Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena
Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena
Location888 Ridge Valley
Irvine, California 92618
Coordinates 33°40′39″N117°44′43″W / 33.67761°N 117.74524°W / 33.67761; -117.74524
Owner Anaheim Ducks
Operator Ice Management, LLC [1] [2]
Capacity 2,500 (main arena)
Surface280,000 sq. ft
Construction
Broke ground2017 [3]
Opened2019 [4]
Construction cost$110,000,000 USD
Architect LPA
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. [5] 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. [6] The complex is also surrounded by Orange County Great Park which has other sports facilities.

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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. [7] Despite later resuming operations, Anaheim Ice facilities agreed to comply with ongoing California state COVID-19 guidelines in August 2020. [8] 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. [9] [10]

Great Park Ice's Logo Logo-great-park.png
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. [11] As the name suggests, the Restaurant and bar are located between rinks. [12]

Notable events

Games
Date(s)Score(s)Team 1Team 2Event Name (promoted as)Notes
December 28–29, 2019(28) 4 – 1 Harvard Wins [13] Harvard ASU SoCal Clash [14] 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 [15]
Rink 4 (FivePoint Arena)'s Logo. Fivepointlogo-1-01.png
Rink 4 (FivePoint Arena)'s Logo.
Tournaments
DatesChampion(s)EventNotesRef.
November 17–20, 2022Tier 1 – Boston Bruins12th annual USA Hockey Sled Classic, presented by the NHL [16]
Tier 2 – Pittsburgh Penguins
Tier 3 – Boston Bruins
Tier 4 – Colorado Avalanche
Tier 5 – Chicago Blackhawks
September 7-8,10, 20192019 Rookie FaceoffSix of nine games played at FivePoint Arena, the remaining in Rink 3.
April 4-8, 201914U - Pittsburgh Penguins Elite (PA)2019 Chiptole-USA Hockey Nationals, Girls Tier 1 [17] [18]
16U - Chicago Mission (IL)
19U - Boston Jr. Eagles (MA)

List of other events

Source: [19]

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

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  5. ↑ Arritt, Dan. "Ducks owners, Irvine Ice Foundation open $110 million ice facility". NHL.com. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
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  7. ↑ COVID-19 UPDATE https://anaheimice.therinks.com, March 13, 2020, accessed September 27, 2020
  8. ↑ UPDATE TO FACILITY GUIDELINES https://anaheimice.therinks.com, August 19, 2020, accessed September 27, 2020
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  10. ↑ "San Diego Gulls to temporarily relocate to Irvine". San Diego Union Tribune . January 4, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Between The Rinks Bar & Grill Menu" (PDF). Retrieved May 8, 2021.
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  14. ↑ "Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena to Host". NHL.com. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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