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The Lakeshore Lions Arena (Lakeshore Lions Memorial Centre) was a hockey facility run in Toronto's Long Branch neighbourhood in Etobicoke by the Lakeshore Lions Club. It is the former practice facility for the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL hockey team, and the Toronto Marlies AHL "farm" team. The old arena was a two storey rink built in 1951 at 300 Birmingham Street. In 2010, it was repurposed as the Humber College Arts and Media Studio. The Lions opened a new facility, called the MasterCard Centre for Hockey Excellence, to replace the old arena in fall 2009, located northeast of the original rink, at 400 Kipling Avenue. The club spent three years on negotiations, and $250,000 on planning.〔Olga Eremeeva, "Lakeshore to play host to Leafs and Marlies", ''Humber EtCetera'', Toronto: Humber College Journalism program, 26 January 2006.〕 Brian Hoskins, vice-chairman of the arena board told the ''Humber EtCetera'', "This is a sports facility operated by a not-for-profit service club. All the profits go back to the community. We have to have professional tenants to make it work. Our primary time is occupied here by youth hockey. The Leafs are here from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. when we don't have a lot of use of it. That is why it is such a good marriage for us."〔 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lakeshore Lions Arena」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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