How many hockey and basketball teams share arenas? (2023)

How many hockey and basketball teams share arenas?

Though not a universal arrangement in markets with teams in both leagues, shared NHL-NBA arenas are still somewhat common. For the 2018-19 seasons in both leagues, there are 11 total shared arenas— but that number is likely to go down in coming years.

North American indoor arenas commonly feature basketball and ice hockey teams sharing the facility during their common fall-to-spring season; a layer of insulation and a basketball floor can easily be laid over or removed from the hockey rink, and dasherboards disassembled or reconfigured, in a matter of hours.

Staples Center is the only NBA arena shared by two teams (the Lakers and Clippers). The Golden State Warriors are the only team whose name does not include a city or a state. The Toronto Raptors are the only team in the NBA that does not reside within the United States.

Learn a bit about all 32 arenas in the NHL and how each building's capacity compares to the rest of the league.

After various periods of expansion and reorganization, the NHL now consists of 32 teams in two conferences and four divisions.

So when the basketball players are out there slam dunking the basketball through the hoop, the court they're running on still has the ice hockey rink beneath it.

How stadiums switch from a basketball court to an ice hockey rink

NBA teams that share arenas with NHL teams

Ball Arena: Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche. Capital One Arena: Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals. Crypto.com Arena: Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Kings. Little Caesars Arena: Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red Wings.

Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, Pyongyang

It has been designed to host multiple sports, including athletics. The Rungrado is the largest stadium in the world.

Which NHL team has the biggest arena?

Bell Centre, Montreal Canadiens

The Bell Centre is also the biggest arena in the NHL, with a capacity of over 21,000 for hockey games. It's located in downtown Montreal, which means there are plenty of nearby restaurants to enjoy before the games and hotels to stay at.

The oldest arena in the NHL belongs to the Madison Square Gardens, the home of the New York Rangers.

Home to more than a third of the 1.76 million registered players of all ages globally, Canada is also host to around half of the roughly 17,500 ice hockey rinks on the planet.

In the 2020/21 season, there were a total of 2,041 ice hockey rinks in the United States according to the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The name hockey—as the organized game came to be known—has been attributed to the French word hoquet (shepherd's stick). The term rink, referring to the designated area of play, was originally used in the game of curling in 18th-century Scotland.

The development of the modern version of organized ice hockey played as a team sport is often credited to James Creighton. In 1872, he moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Montreal, bringing skates, hockey sticks, and a game with a basic set of rules with him.

2. Which states have the most number of NHL teams? A: California and New York, each with three NHL teams.

NBA teams that share arenas with NHL teams

Ball Arena: Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche. Capital One Arena: Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals. Crypto.com Arena: Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Kings. Little Caesars Arena: Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red Wings.

Do NHL teams have their own arenas?

Primarily privately funded buildings. Teams built their own buildings primarily out of their own pockets in every Canadian market (except for Calgary and Edmonton) as well as the major American markets (plus Vegas and Columbus).

There are a total of 152 Major League sports franchises (MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA & MLS) in North America, that are spread across 52 cities in the United States and Canada.