Kettler Capitals Iceplex

The Kettler Capitals Iceplex is a joint venture between the Washington Capitals and Arlington County and is the practice facility, training center and corporate headquarters for the Washington Capitals - Washington's NHL franchise.

In addition, the facility serves as a community ice skating and recreation center offering a variety of learn-to-skate programs, open skating and practice and tournament space for community skating programs including high school club teams, men’s and women’s figure skating and hockey programs for the disabled.

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Partnering with the Disabled Community

Arlington has actively sought out organizations within the disabled community as user groups for the Kettler Capitals Iceplex, offering them free ice time for clinics and tournaments. By any measure, Arlington is a leader in this endeavor: No other ice rink in the Washington, D.C. region has actively sought out and offered free ice time, on a consistent basis, to these groups. In the first 6 months the Kettler Capitals Iceplex has been opened, Arlington will donate approximately 70 hours of ice time, and will host the International Special Hockey Festival.

Sled Hockey Clinic
March 2007
In March, USA Disabled Hockey, the National Rehabilitation Hospital, and the United Spinal Association hostd a sled hockey clinic. For more information about the event,
click here.

International Special Hockey Festival
April 19-21, 2007
Arlington and the Kettler Capitals Iceplex will welcome the Special Hockey International Tournament which will welcome 1500 people to Arlington for three days. The Arlington Convention & Visitors Service has worked with the organization to provide them blocks of hotel rooms in Arlington at reasonable rates, and Arlington has donated $15,000 worth of icetime for the event. More information

NOVA Cool Cats
NOVA Cool Cats is a hockey program for children with developmental disabilities. Since finding a home at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in November, NOVA Cool Cats has doubled the number of children involved in its program, many of whom are Arlington residents. Arlington has donated 70 hours of ice time for games and practices. More information

Project Information

• Construction for the facility began March 2005. The facility opened in November 2006.
• The 144,000 square foot facility is located atop the existing seven-story public parking garage adjacent to the Ballston Common Mall at the corner of North Glebe Road and North Randolph Street.
• Two indoor NHL regulation sized ice rinks will provide an estimated 11,500 hours of ice-time per year while providing space for meetings, parties and other events. The Capitals practice rink accommodates about 1,200 spectators. NHL rinks measure 200 feet by 85 feet. Olympic sized rinks measure 200 feet by 100 feet - 15 feet wider but the same length.
• The facility will also house office space; media facilities; and additional space for special events; a 20,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art training center for the Capitals with a large weight and fitness room, extensive athletic-training and medical facilities, spacious locker-room and lounge areas and a high-tech video room. The complex will also house the organization's entire front-office staff.
• The first indoor ice rinks inside the Capitol Beltway in Virginia will help alleviate the ever-increasing demand for ice-time by hockey and skating groups in the region. Estimates also forecast the project will provide many economic benefits to the County by attracting additional patrons to area restaurants, hotels, and retail stores and generating additional taxes on the facility and revenue from its operation.
• Approved by the County Board in 2004, the facility was funded by Arlington County through the sale of bonds and leased to the Capitals, who will operate the complex and manage all community programs. The parking garage will continue to be managed by Arlington.
• The general contractor is D.C.-based Sigal Construction and the architect is Architecture, Inc. of Reston, VA.
• Dedicated elevator from street level to the new 8th level is located next to the garage's exterior stairwell facing Glebe Road.
• Other amenities include:
  • Skate rental
  • Eight locker rooms with showers
  • Pro shop for hockey and figure skating
  • Snack bar
  • Warm viewing areas
  • Direct access to Ballston Common Mall via main bank of elevators and new internal mall stairwell
  • Year-round programming
  • Public skating sessions
  • Learn-to-skate programs
  • Capitals practices open to public
  • Additional parking for 192 vehicles on the new 8th level