Ford Performance Centre

Toronto, ON · Public skating times & prices

Four NHL-sized pads in Etobicoke, opened 2009; practice home of the Maple Leafs and Marlies.

Public skating at Ford Performance Centre: the next 7 days

No public skating is posted for the next 7 days. New sessions show here as soon as the rink posts them.

Address
400 Kipling Ave., Toronto, ON M8V 3L1
Phone
(416) 251-5219
Website
lakeshorearena.ca
The long blue and glass facade on Kipling Avenue in winter, still carrying its earlier MasterCard Centre signage and Maple Leafs logos. — Ford Performance Centre
The long blue and glass facade on Kipling Avenue in winter, still carrying its earlier MasterCard Centre signage and Maple Leafs logos. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
The main rink from the red seats, with the Ford Performance Centre scoreboard hanging over centre ice. — Ford Performance Centre
The main rink from the red seats, with the Ford Performance Centre scoreboard hanging over centre ice. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source

Practice rink of the Maple Leafs and Marlies

The Ford Performance Centre opened in September 2009 at 400 Kipling Avenue in Etobicoke’s New Toronto neighbourhood, as the Mastercard Centre for Hockey Excellence. The Lakeshore Lions Club, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the City of Toronto built it together to replace the nearby Lakeshore Lions Arena, and since September 2011 the City’s arms-length Lakeshore Arena Corporation has run it. Ford took the naming rights in 2019.

It has four NHL-sized rinks, one of which can be expanded to Olympic dimensions with 1,000 seats. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment added training and medical facilities to make it the practice rink of the Maple Leafs and the AHL’s Toronto Marlies, and visiting NHL teams and Hockey Canada’s national teams skate here too. Hockey Canada and the Hockey Hall of Fame keep offices in the building, and the Faustina Hockey Club runs house league and select hockey on its ice.

The centre hosted seasons three and four of CBC’s Battle of the Blades, in 2011 and 2013, and its first international short track competition in November 2015.

Before you head out.

Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.

Admission

Public skating at the Ford Performance Centre is free: the October 2026 program calendar says "Public Skating - No Charge Courtesy of Ford Motor Company".

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Skating with children

CSA-approved helmets are required for hockey programs (stick and puck, shinny).

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A source check records what the rink published on that date. Session-specific booking details take precedence.