Arrowhead Pond

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Template:Infobox Stadium The Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim is an indoor arena in Anaheim, California. The arena is home to the NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks and was home of the former NLL's Anaheim Storm, which folded in 2005. It was completed in 1993 at a cost of $123 million. Arrowhead paid $15 million for the naming rights over 10 years a few months after the arena opened.

It opened on June 19, 1993, its first event a Barry Manilow concert. Since then, it has been host to a number of high profile events, such as the Stanley Cup Finals (2003), WrestleMania XII & WrestleMania 2000 (XVI), the Royal Rumble in 1999, and from 1994-1998 served as a second home for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers. Also served as the home floor for the Anaheim Bullfrogs of Roller Hockey International from 1993 to 1999. The arena has also hosted the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament three times as the West Regional site - 1998, 2001, and 2003. It even hosted the Frozen Four in 1999, underscoring the popularity of hockey even in the desert southwest.

The arena seats up 17,174 for its primary tenant, the Mighty Ducks. There are 84 luxury suites in the building, which has hosted 17.5 million people as of 2003.

Broadcom chairman and billionaire Henry Samueli owns the company which operates the Pond, and on February 25, 2005, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would sell the Ducks to Samueli, giving him control of the Pond's lease.

Trivia

• The Arrowhead Pond was used as the site of the Junior Goodwill Games in D2: The Mighty Ducks; not so ironically, the uniforms unveiled by the team in the movie were the jerseys used by professional team of the same name which began play that season in the arena.
• The Arrowhead Pond was the site of the fictional 2005 Democratic National Convention in the TV series The West Wing.
• It takes only five hours to convert the Arrowhead Pond from an arena to an 8,400-seat amphitheater (The Theater at the Arrowhead Pond).

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