Arenas and Skating

The time frames in the tables below will be compulsory when forwarding ice allocation requests to the Facility Booking Office. All dates in the tables below are prior to the beginning of each season.

Arena Division Ice Allocation Policy

2025-2026 Allocation Time Frames

All ice and floor bookings must be made by the dates in the tables below.

Note: General Public Availability is the date that all remaining ice and floor time can be booked. All user groups and organizations will have their facility booking contracts complete.

Floor booking allocation time frames

HST and capital contributions are included in below fees.

Check the availability of our ice and floor pads online. To book ice or floor time, complete the Sport Facility Booking Request Form.

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Please note, rental requests received outside of our regular office hours or during holidays will be processed in sequence of requests received upon the office reopening. A completed Request Form is not considered a booking.

Additional cruiser charges may apply to all ice rentals depending on the number of skaters. 

Floor pad rental rates effective April 1, 2025

Special events on arena floor pad

Rate per pad at Healthy Planet and Kinsmen Civic Centre only: $3,700.75 per day.

General:

• Respect and cooperate with staff. They are there for everyone's safety.
• Children 10 years and under must be accompanied and supervised by a guardian 14 years or older.
• CSA Approved helmets are strongly recommended and mandatory for Pay-as-you-play Hockey Shinny.
• All participants are required to wear skates - no footwear other than skates on the ice.
• No participants are to enter the ice surface area until the resurfacer is off the ice and the resurfacer door is closed.
• No food or drink on ice surface.
• No horseplay/games/tag in any area of the facility.
• No erratic/excessive speed skating or figure skating.
• No balls/pucks/chairs/pylons/strollers/sticks or any other item which might interfere with the safety of any skater while on the ice surface
• No headsets, cell phones or handheld electronic devices to be used while skating.
• Carrying of children is not permitted on the ice surface.
• No sitting on the boards.
• Skate in constant flow and in the direction of all skaters.
• Skaters are required to conduct themselves appropriately at all times - this includes no cursing or swearing.
• Alcohol, tobacco and drugs are prohibited.
• Approved skating aids will be permitted on the ice.

Wheelchairs, strollers and skating aids

• Wheelchairs are permitted on the ice once the wheels have been cleaned.
• Persons accompanying those in wheelchairs or ice sledges must wear skates and be skilled skaters.
• A sledge is defined as a sled with two skate blades under the seat and a glider extending to the front. The skater uses two sticks with a prick on the end to propel themselves forward.
• Those who choose not to follow the Skaters Code of Conduct will be given a warning and then repeated offence, will be asked to leave the facility. 

Family Stick and Puck

• A CSA-approved helmet with an attached face mask or cage is required for children
• Hockey nets and pucks are provided.
• Children must bring their own stick.

Shinny

• CSA-approved helmets are mandatory and full equipment is required for all players and goalies.
• Goalies play for free.
• Equipment rentals are not available.
• Shinny is not intended for organized teams. Referees are not provided.
• No body-checking is allowed.
• Please keep the spirit of the game enjoyable, and remember it is only for fun.
• This activity is not directly supervised (only youth), report any concerns to staff.