NHC Arena, formerly NHK Arena, E.ON Arena, Sydkraft Arena and Timrå Isstadion, is an indoor sporting arena located in

Timrå Timrå () is a locality and the seat of Timrå Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 10,443 inhabitants in 2010. It is located about 13 km north of Sundsvall (a town with a metropolitan area of some 100,000 inhabitants), and c ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

. Construction began in 1964 and was inaugurated on 4 September 1966. Since then the venue has undergone several renovations and expansions. It is home arena of the SHL ice hockey team

Timrå IK Timrå IK is a professional Swedish ice hockey team based in Timrå, north of Sundsvall. It competes in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), which is the top-tier league in Sweden, since being promoted by winning 2021 SHL qualifiers. Previous seaso ...

. Current capacity is 6 000.

History

The current building was constructed in 2003 on the grounds of, and re-using the roof from the old Timrå Isstadion. This predecessor dates back to 1966 and was inaugurated September 4, the same year, as the eighth ice hockey venue in

. The old arena underwent a heavy refresh for the 1994/1995 season, resulting in a capacity of 5,500. When

was promoted to the

Swedish Hockey League The Swedish Hockey League (officially SHL; sv, Svenska Hockeyligan) is a professional ice hockey league, and the highest division in the Swedish ice hockey system. The league currently consists of 14 teams. The league was founded in 1975, an ...

in year

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, the old Timrå Isstadion was timeworn and didn't met the requirement for a modern ice hockey venue so a second major reconstruction was made prior to season 2003/2004, resulting in today's capacity of 6 000, still far from the all-time high arena audience record from 20 January 1972 of 11 695 paying spectators when

played against Brynäs IF.

Video cube

In Oktober 2018 a new video cube was installed in NHC Arena with a screen size of 170 square meters, among Europe's largest. It replaced the earlier one which was installed in 2005. The venture was jointly financed by

and Northern Hall and Cover (NHC). The new video cube was inaugurated 18 Oktober 2018 in a SHL game against Rögle BK.

Lill-Strimma hallen

In the early 1990s, the need for a new ice hockeyrink grew. The youth teams often had late training sessions in NHC Arena or had to play on the field. With the help of

Timrå Municipality Timrå Municipality (''Timrå kommun'') is a municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden. The town of Timrå is the municipal seat. The rural municipality ''Timrå'' was made a market town (''köping'') in 1947. The present municipality was ...

and many non-profit forces, construction started of Lill-Strimmahallen, adjacent to NHC Arena. The hall was ready for the 1991/1992 season and was then Sweden's 251st ice rink. The inauguration had to wait until Lill-Strimma's 50th birthday (if he lived on) on 16 Dec. 1994. The name became the logical "Lill-Strimmahallen". In total, the hall cost SEK 16 million. Lill-Strimmahallen has a capacity of 300 spectators.

Overview

References

Books

Web pages

* * * * * *

External links

Timrå IK homepagePictures and facts (unofficial)
{{DEFAULTSORT:NHC Arena Indoor ice hockey venues in Sweden Ice hockey venues in Sweden Sport in Timrå Sports venues completed in 1966 1966 establishments in Sweden