Pick up Ice Hockey in Ottawa

[Rumcajs]

Howdy folks. Anyone know of any arenas that have drop in pick up hockey games? In North Carolina I had better luck of finding places to play hockey than in Ottawa!

Downtown preferably.

Thanks!

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[LuckyPierre]

Jim Durrell has noon puck on Mondays, and morning puck Tuesdays and Fridays I believe. In any event, check ottawa.ca, it has a list of drop in ice times.

 

[Big Papi]

yeah, I use to work the drop ins for the city, they are random times, usually at lunch or early morning. the Walkley arena usually had atleast one goalie

 

[Bob Kudelski]

Try www.ottawarechockey.com although the website seems to be down. They organize all sorts of informal pick-up games at various rinks and you can be on a mailing list for any openings you can sign up for. If the websites's not working, email the guy that runs it - [email protected]

 

[Back in Black]

Try www.ottawarechockey.com although the website seems to be down. They organize all sorts of informal pick-up games at various rinks and you can be on a mailing list for any openings you can sign up for. If the websites's not working, email the guy that runs it - [email protected]

Yes, this one is quite good, with different skill levels!

Also check www.kijiji.ca/ottawa or www.usedottawa.com for Hockey spares.

Example: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-activities-g...al/1004695763?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-activities-g...ded/599142481?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

 

[Rumcajs]

Great thanks folks! Now time to figure out how to bike with my hockey bag, or walk it like a champ.

 

[utah]

http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/parks-and-recreation/drop-activities/public-skating-schedules

Use the drop down menus to select the rinks you want, days you want, and activity you want ( in this case pick-up hockey 18+ ). There is also pickup hockey for 35+.

 

[Fusbolito]

Try www.ottawarechockey.com although the website seems to be down. They organize all sorts of informal pick-up games at various rinks and you can be on a mailing list for any openings you can sign up for. If the websites's not working, email the guy that runs it - [email protected]

Just a small warning about contacting Rob. He's a good guy, but he tends to exaggerate the skill level of many of his games. I used to run one of them on Saturday nights, and we had a pretty good group with skill levels ranging from current Junior B players to pluggers. It was marketed as a very high skill game, which, to some extent, it was, but we ended up disappointing quite a few players because of Rob's enthusiastic recommendation of the game.

I would contact the game managers directly as opposed to talking to Rob, they'll have a better idea of the overall skill of a particular game. Other than that, it's a little scattershot, but the people involved are good folks.