Herb Brooks Arena

1980 Rink - Herb Brooks Arena
Earlier names
Olympic Center (until 2005)
Data
place	2634 Main Street Lake Placid , New York 12946
Coordinates	44 ° 16 '59.9 "  N , 73 ° 59' 8.3"  W Coordinates: 44 ° 16 '59.9 "  N , 73 ° 59' 8.3"  W.
owner	NYS Olympic Regional Development Authority
operator	NYS Olympic Regional Development Authority
surface	Ice surface concrete
architect	Distin & Wilson
capacity	7,700 seats
Events
Games of the 1932 Olympic ice hockey tournament Figure skating competitions at the 1932 Olympic Games Games of the 1980 Olympic ice hockey tournament Figure skating competitions at the 1980 Olympic Games NCAA Men's Frozen Four 1970, 1984, 1988 2007 NCAA Women's Frozen Four Men's ECAC Championship Game 1993–2002, since 2014

The Herb Brooks Arena is an ice rink in the US city ​​of Lake Placid in New York State . It offers 7,700 seats.

history

Exterior view of the Herb Brooks Arena

The hall was used at the 1932 Winter Olympics . Ice hockey games and figure skating competitions were held in the Olympic Center. 48 years later the Winter Olympics took place again in Lake Placid. Again the Olympic Center was used for figure skating and ice hockey. The graduation ceremony was also held here.

The best-known ice hockey game played in the Herb Brooks Arena is the so-called " Miracle on Ice " , a game during the 1980 Winter Olympics when the US national ice hockey team , which was represented by amateur players , defeated the Soviet national team , which was considered unbeatable at the time , with a score of 4: 3 and thus laid the foundation for later winning the gold medal in this tournament. For the 25th anniversary of this event, the former Olympic Center was renamed the Herb Brooks Arena. Herb Brooks was the national coach of the US team at the 1980 Olympic gold medal.

In addition to the events of the Olympic Games in 1932 and 1980, numerous NCAA games were also held in the ice rink . In 1970, 1984 and 1988 the finals for the championship were played here. In 2007, the NCAA women's final took place in the arena. Moreover, this is going to ECAC championship game of the men held from 1993 to 2002 and since, 2014. The game is slated to stay in Lake Placid until 2019.

Web links

Commons : Herb Brooks Arena  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• whiteface.com: Lake Placid Olympic Center (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dailygazette.com: ECACH tournament championship round staying in Lake Placid ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article from March 19, 2016