Pagel Ice Arena — Local services in Minnetonka

Attended a youth hockey game in Pagel at Rink 2 last night. The experience was standard for a Minnesota hockey rink in the suburbs right until the warmups started. The music was so ridiculously, unnecessarily loud. Do you want the best rock hits of the 80s and 90s pumped at you reaching 97 decibels (measured by my watch) while you are trying to have a conversation with the person next to you? Then this is the youth hockey experience for you. I don't know if the person running the board thinks this is the X, but they had music queued up to pump out at every whistle and break, making the actual playtime a relief on the ears. It was so loud that my two kids under age 10 were covering their ears whenever the music was playing.

I get wanting to make an exciting atmosphere, but tone it down. No one needs to hear White Snake at volume 11 while trying to watch their nephew score a goal on a quiet...

Wear your winter jacket in the summer to this place. It's cold (rink 1 is colder than rink 2) and you can only be in the warm area if you make a reservation. Limited seating in Rink 2. Ice rinks are nice, there are heating elements above the standing area, but they didn't turn then on, concessions have a wide variety of options, bathrooms are pretty clean and the staff was friendly about ejecting us from the only warm area to watch a game. When you have an elderly grandparent or a baby come watch the game have lots of blankets for them. If your a hot bodied person this...

Pagel 1 is a great place to watch a game.

Pagel 2 is great for practices, but almost everyone watches from the balcony that's over the locker rooms, and you wind up standing there the whole game on a hard cement floor while it's kind of cold. If you have a bad back, that can be really rough. I'm not sure why they don't add a single row of chairs up there. With two rows, it would easily be enough for any game I've been to there . 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, it's great that they have two sheets of ice for Minnetonka youth and high...