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For city-wide information, see Current Rink Conditions in Latest News on the home page.
Broadlands Rink Profile
Rink change area: Inside the connected community centre. Very clean, rubber flooring throughout. Change rooms are separated by gender and have no windows. No benches in the hallway and no benches outside. Community centre has two rooms with many windows next to the rink, but both are used as staff offices.
Staff: Polite, often found in their office, focused on making sure the permits get proper service.
Maintenance: There are 14 ice maintenance shifts a week. There's an onsite zamboni but no plow -- when it snows, the zamboni has to take off ALL the snow, which can take many hours.
Free shinny-hockey and pleasure-skating hours:
2011-2012
Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 6 hours a week , during prime time.
Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 6:45 hours a week, during prime time.
Note: Broadlands also allows pleasure skating when there are no permits or program times, but they DO NOT allow shinny hockey outside of the 4 hours a week (two for little kids, 2 for adults). No drop-in shinny is allowed even if the ice is empty.
Cost to run this rink
*prime time means after 4pm weekdays and all day on weekends
Comments about this rink: e-mail us at rinkissues@cityrinks.ca.
Opening and closing dates:
Opens: Nov 24, 2012
Closes: Mar 10, 2013
Rink Diary 2012 - 2013
See also: Editor's and Rink Users' blog
See Diaries tab
Views of the rink
 Excellent ice maintenance but the rink is often empty |
 When the rink is opened for public skating, people will come |
From The City of Toronto Website 2012-13
For the skating schedule, go to Broadlands Rink page on the City website, then click on Skating.
For up to date listings of open rinks (not the same as scheduled openings), see Current Conditions on the cityrinks.ca Home Page
If you notice a different schedule at your rink, please let us know mail@cityrinks.ca
See also the City of Toronto Outdoor Rinks web pages.
Rink Diary 2012 - 2013
See also: Editor's and Rink Users' blog
Rink Diary 2011 - 2012
Thursday Nov.17 2011
There's ice on the rink and the mats are out. But no lights on -- that suggests that they're not planning night-time floods. The rink maintenance staff said that they started hose-flooding today -- four times in the daytime, and then some more in the evening around 6 pm.
Friday Nov.25 2011
11 a.m. The staff said that they are not yet ready to open. The ice has some thickness, and they have used the zamboni some. Today a two-foot strip of south-facing ice, right against the boards, appeared to be melted, showing the cement through about an inch of water.
The staff said that there were no overnight floods at Broadlands, to get the ice started, just evening floods.
11 a.m. ice holding despite the warmth
band of transparent ice or ice-water
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Content last modified on December 10, 2012, at 10:16 PM EST