Location: 100 N. Seven Peaks Boulevard, Provo, Utah 
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Events: ice hockey - men's and women's tournaments; Complete schedule
Name game: Built beside Seven Peaks Water Park by park owners, the arena sometimes was called Seven Peaks Ice Arena.
Previous Olympic-type events: 2000 Four Nations women's hockey tournament; 1999 and 2000 World Cup short-track speedskating events.
Briefly: The Peaks is viewed by the Olympic hockey community as an adequate and functional facility, but hardly a shrine to the sport. In essence, it is what it is, a public ice skating arena with room for temporary seating to stage a once-in-a-lifetime event. There are no luxury boxes, no suites, nothing fancy. Original plans called for all of the women's games—except the gold-medal contest—to be played at The Peaks. Now, seven of the 18 women's games will be held at the E Center, and no women's hockey officials are complaining about that.
Because of the travel distance from the Olympic Village to the Provo venue, The Peaks will be used for competition only, with Acord Ice Arena in West Valley City and the Murray Ice Arena picking up the practice-time slack for men's and women's teams.
For more information visit the Peak's Web site at www.peaksarena.com/.
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