The ImOn Ice Arena is a 3,850-seat multipurpose

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, located adjacent to Veterans Memorial Stadium. The arena opened on January 8, 2000, and is owned by the city of Cedar Rapids. It is home to the

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of the

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as well as several local youth hockey teams. The University of Iowa Hawkeyes club hockey team plays some of their home games at the facility. The arena contains separate sheets of ice for

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games and for public and figure

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. ImOn Communications purchased naming rights to the arena from the city through 2024. The arena serves as the home ice for the Eastern Iowa Figure Skating Club, a

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club. For the 2012 and 2013 seasons, it was the temporary home to the

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indoor football team as the U.S. Cellular Center, where they started playing in 2014 and beyond, was being renovated. The arena contains two sheets of ice. One sheet is Olympic regulation (), and the other is NHL regulation (). Public skating, youth hockey, and figure skating events take place on both sheets of ice, whereas larger events, such as RoughRider games, are held on the NHL sheet of ice. The arena was severely damaged by a derecho storm which hit Cedar Rapids on August 10, 2020. The RoughRiders hockey team announced on September 18, 2020 that they would not participate in the 2020-2021 USHL season, because of the damage to the arena. Repair costs, initially estimated at $4 million, were reported in January 2021 to have risen to "the $6-million range."

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RinkAtlas listing for ImOnIce Arena

Eastern Iowa Figure Skating Club

Corridor Hockey Association
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