The Perth Ice Arena (also known as Perth Ice Arena Centre.) is an

ice sports Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in cold area ...

and public skate centre, built in 2009 and located at the Malaga precinct of

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, in

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

. The arena serves as the home ice rink for the

Perth Thunder The Perth Thunder is an Australian semi-professional ice hockey team from Perth, Western Australia. Founded in 2010, the Thunder have been a member of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) since 2012. The Thunder are based at the Perth Ice Are ...

in the

Australian Ice Hockey League The Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) is Australia's top-level ice hockey league. Established in 2000, the AIHL is sanctioned by Ice Hockey Australia (a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation). The league is run by its own board of ...

and West Coast Ice Hockey Club who compete in WA state leagues.

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Perth Ice Arena regularly hosts

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

(including academy),

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

, functions (including birthday parties, social clubs, bucks and hens nights and youth groups), disco nights and general public sessions. Since 2012, the arena has annually hosted fourteen regular season

(AIHL) matches involving

between the months of April and August. The Perth Ice Arena in 2016 played host to one of the USA vs Canada

Ice Hockey Classic Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaqu ...

exhibition matches. Team Canada defeated Team USA 6-5 in a shootout in game two. The series has been running since 2015 and has brought a number of current and past

NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...

players and coaches along with a host of AHL and

ECHL The ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with teams scattered across the United States and Canada. It is a tier below the American Hockey League (AHL). The E ...

players to Australia and New Zealand during that time. Players and coaches donate their time to raise money for the STOPCONCUSSIONS Foundation and awareness of the sport of ice hockey to

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and

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Australian Ice Hockey League

West Coast Ice Hockey
{{Ice hockey in Australia Ice hockey venues in Australia Sports venues in Perth, Western Australia 2009 establishments in Australia Sports venues completed in 2009 Indoor arenas in Australia Figure skating venues in Australia Speed skating venues in Australia Malaga, Western Australia

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