John Lindell Ice Arena

I enjoy skating at this rink, the employees are friendly and the facility looks good. I just wish they had more open skates at night during the week in the winter season.

The locker rooms and ice here get three stars, but the facility employees bump it up a notch. Everyone I have dealt with is friendly, pleasant and helpful. They remember those who are at the rink frequently, as well. The ice itself is soft and since I grew up skating on natural ice, I prefer harder ice and have some issues playing games here (which is sad, because it’s my home ice). They had some problems in the summer with humidity and condensation which make the ice uneven at times. The locker rooms are well-​sized and wiped down frequently, so I have no complaints there although others have voiced some opinions about the conditions of the locker rooms overall (older, a little smelly). It’s a hockey locker room, though, so if it didn’t smell horrible I’d wonder if I were in the right place. All in all, a nice rink with a great staff, where I have enjoyed playing many hockey games.

All hockey rinks should have sliding doors so you can easily enter and exit the rink with your hockey bag. That gives JLA a 4 instead of 3 star rating for me. JLA has two sheets of ice that are in good shape. There is television in the lobby area. The lobby area has good bathrooms also. There are raised bleachers if you want to come watch cheer on your family or friends as they play hockey. I saw most of the other reviewers were concerned with rentals. I have never rented skates at any rink or eaten at any rink, so I can’t speak to any of that. The rink is conveniently located near a few watering holes so if you want to go out with your team after your game, there are lots of choices.
Would I shower here? I haven’t yet.

1^st time to skate here and the rental area was super slow with only one person doing everything, and the skate rentals were old and falling apart. these were my only complaints
other than that the rink area was pretty much like any other i’ve been to, they had a pretty normal looking food stand area too but didn’t order anything.
cost of skate rental $ 2
cost of admission $ 4

I will echo Janelle’s sentiments about the children.
Extra star for the close proximity to my house, and okay, I get it kids, you can all skate better then me, good job! But there wasn’t a hockey game in progress, so stop skating around like there is. Although I did very much enjoy the children, all decked out in their hockey gear, probably about 6 or 7 years old, starting to pummel each other on the ice, until someone in charge came to break it up.
The ice was in rough shape, but I guess when you are paying $ 4 (plus $ 2 for skate rental) for open skate, they don’t care enough about you to run the Zamboni across the ice, but they did when it was time for the pee-​wee hockey game to start after we were finished.
Now, where can I get some of those PVC walker/​skate practice type things the little ones were using? I’m sure I could kick some butt attached to one of those.

Oh, the humanity! What a terrifying place. Compared to the handful of other ice-​rinks in the metro area, this might be the worst one. There is an open skate from 9 – 10’ish on Saturday night. For $ 6 you get access to the ice, along with a skate rental. There are both figure and hockey skates. Being Ferndale’s own Mario Lemieux, I opted for hockey skates. Woe! I mean, they were woeful. As was the condition of the ice. I guess you can’t expect smooth ice at the end of the night, but it was pretty awful. As you are navigating this obstacle course, you can guarantee being nearly cross checked by idiots large and small. In sum, theoretically a great way to spend an hour on Saturday, but never again!