Glacier Ice Rink

Glacier Ice Rink
Location 1101 South Ave West Missoula, Montana
 United States
Owner Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association
Operator Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association
Capacity 2,500
Surface Ice Rink
Construction
Broke ground 1996
Opened October 10, 1996 (1996-10-10)
Construction cost Unknown
Tenants
Missoula Bruins (NA3HL) (2016–present)
Missoula Maulers (NorPac/AWHL/WSHL) (2007–16)
Missoula Figure Skating Club
Missoula Curling Club
Missoula Referees Association
Women's Hockey Association of Missoula

The Glacier Ice Rink is a two-sheet ice arena located in Missoula, Montana. It is operated by the Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association (MAYHA), a non profit organization whose mission is to "provide recreational opportunities for learning and playing the game of hockey and other ice skating activities for children and adults in our community." The rink is open 10 months a year and offers youth and adult hockey leagues, hockey tournaments and public skating sessions. Glacier Ice Rink is also home to the Missoula Figure Skating Club, the Missoula Curling Club, the Missoula Referees Association, and the Women's Hockey Association of Missoula (WHAM).

From 2007 to 2016, it was also home to the Missoula Maulers junior hockey team before the team owner and the MAYHA had a contract dispute and the team was shut down.[1] The Maulers were quickly replaced with an expansion team in the North American 3 Hockey League named the Missoula Junior Bruins as an extension of the Bruins youth hockey organization.[2] The Maulers' owner, Michael Burks, had installed all the bleachers for the ice rink with his own funding, so after being denied a new contract he removed all the bleachers forcing the Bruins' organization to find funding for replacement seating.[3]

Tenants

Previous tenants

References

  1. ↑ "Maulers owner explains decision to disband local hockey team". The Missoulian. May 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ "New Missoula junior hockey team approved". The Montana Standard. May 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Bruins drop the puck". Missoula Independent. September 22, 2016.

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Coordinates: 46°50′55″N 114°00′53″W / 46.848708°N 114.014763°W / 46.848708; -114.014763

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