Location

370 The West Mall. West of the 427, just south of Burnamthorpe Road. See Satellite map

Schedule

See Schedule tab

City Councillor

The City Councillor for this rink is Councillor Holyday

West Mall (Double Pad) Rink Profile

Compressors 200 hp. 50 hp Recirculation pump plus a 15 hp slow duty recirculation pump

Rink change area: Plenty of space to change your skates. Most people change in the large oval foyer but there are more changerooms available. The rinkhouse is clean and the floor is covered with rubber mats that go into the washrooms.

Staff: A rink operator is on duty Monday - Friday 3-11pm and all day Saturday and Sunday. There are rink guards during supervised skating times.

Maintenance: The rink is cleaned at the discretion of the rink operator. Generally very good ice maintenance. 9 - 14 shifts a week.

Free shinny-hockey and pleasure-skating hours:

2011-2012

Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 32:30 hours a week (supervised) and 18:15 (unsupervised), during prime time.

Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 9:15 hours a week (supervised), 6 (unsupervised), during prime time

*prime time means after 4pm weekdays and all day on weekends

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Opening and closing dates:

Opened (hockey side only): Nov 26, 2012
Closes: Mar 10, 2013

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

Sunday November 25 2012, entry by Jutta

there's ice, but still a bit thin in places

blame the weather

logos on the boards gone, just this one left

The rink wasn't open, but the gate was ajar, and two boys were standing by the boards talking to the rink operator. He said that they were still trying to build ice, but were hoping they might be able to open this evening or tomorrow. It was still pretty easy to see the cement. The operator said they had not done overnight floods but that yesterday they put down nine floods from late afternoon until 11 pm. He said they hadn't started until Wednesday, "but we can't come in earlier than they schedule us to come in."

I wish I could show them our 6-minute video. How good the ice is depends on the amount of water you put down during the dark hours....

Later on a foreperson told me that there's no heat at West Mall because the external connections were vandalized -- and no hot water for the zamboni either.

Nov.24 & 25 2012

In fact, Westmall didn't get to open on opening day. Nor the day after . By comparison, Dufferin Rink (which had over night flooding) was open on Nov 24th for the morning, and then again, in the evening.

Nov.26 2012

The rink was posted on the city website as opened on the hockey side only. Read More >>

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Views of the rink

Posted rink schedule
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The posted sign has very few public shinny hockey hours a week. However, the sign appears to be wrong. The city rink schedule has more hours -- it says that unsupervised shinny hockey is available from 9 am to 4 pm every weekday, and a bit longer on Tuesday and Thursday. Weekends are permit only for the hockey side, no public time at all.

From The City of Toronto Website 2012-13

For the skating schedule, go to West Mall 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

Sunday November 25 2012, entry by Jutta

there's ice, but still a bit thin in places

blame the weather

logos on the boards gone, just this one left

The rink wasn't open, but the gate was ajar, and two boys were standing by the boards talking to the rink operator. He said that they were still trying to build ice, but were hoping they might be able to open this evening or tomorrow. It was still pretty easy to see the cement. The operator said they had not done overnight floods but that yesterday they put down nine floods from late afternoon until 11 pm. He said they hadn't started until Wednesday, "but we can't come in earlier than they schedule us to come in."

I wish I could show them our 6-minute video. How good the ice is depends on the amount of water you put down during the dark hours....

Later on a foreperson told me that there's no heat at West Mall because the external connections were vandalized -- and no hot water for the zamboni either.

Nov.24 & 25 2012

In fact, Westmall didn't get to open on opening day. Nor the day after . By comparison, Dufferin Rink (which had over night flooding) was open on Nov 24th for the morning, and then again, in the evening.

Nov.26 2012

The rink was posted on the city website as opened on the hockey side only. Read More >>

Rink Diary 2011 - 2012

Nov.18 2011

No sign of any flooding, not even mats out. Supposed to open tomorrow but obviously decided not to.

Nov.22, 3.30 pm:

ice building up

Compressors were on and have been since Sunday according to a staff guy who arrived as I was leaving. They've got half an inch of ice down and it looks good. They want another quarter inch/10 more floods (he says) on top before they open -- hopefully tomorrow. Mats are out already, but the rink area is fenced off and the change rooms are closed.

Nov.24 2011

There seems to have been some back-sliding here. There's definitely no night flooding. Lots of frost on the hockey pad, but some of the rink looks pretty close to concrete -- so they'll probably lose it tomorrow when the weather gets warmer and the sun comes out. No lights and no ice on the pleasure-skating pad. Some mats were out.

Staff said there will likely be no ice till next week. For comparison: Dufferin Rink

Saturday Dec.3 2011

pleasure-skating side now finally open too

front doors locked, and out-of-date signs

Morning: Pleasure-skating pad and hockey pad both open, ice looks very good, but the only skaters were 3 staff going round the pleasure pad! The change rooms were open if you went around the back but the front doors are locked and still have old signs on them saying the rink will not be open on 19 and 20 November.

A woman was leaving with her daughter and said that her kid had been playing on the hockey side earlier.

From rink user Eric HM, 7 pm: Ice was in very good shape, other than being a bit rough in one corner right against the boards (needs some edge work). One of the permits cancelled for tonight at around 7pm so we got to skate for a bit, but I think the hockey pad is almost 100% reserved on weekends. There were 5 teenagers and one younger kid.

December 14, 2011

From rink user David Purcell: The ice is in great shape with the exception of slight unevenness along the south east half boards. The attendant seems to be cleaning the ice more often than last year.

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