The final phase of the City of Ottawa’s $8.7 million multi-year expansion and renovation of the Goulbourn Recreation Complex was completed last month as Arena B – an NHL-sized ice surface built specifically to accommodate sledge hockey – officially opened.
“I visited the facility and was very impressed,” Sledge Hockey of Eastern Ontario president Serge Lavoie said in an e-mail to the Ottawa Sportspage. “It is awesome. It has windows into the boards in the corners of the rink to permit people in wheelchairs to view the ice surface; the change rooms are roomy and accessible.”
A few other features include widened team benches to accommodate sledges and synthetic ice that can be installed to link the ice surface with dressing rooms.
The expansion project also included six new change rooms, an expanded referee room, and a tournament reception lobby.