Northford Ice Pavilion is home to Yale Youth Hockey. The NIP is located in the town of Northford, CT. Our central location near New Haven and a short distance from NYC allows for easy access to our programs.  Northford also afford easy access to area colleges and prep schools for exposure and facilities. Northford is a fully equipped three sheet facility with snack bar, Hamden Sport Center , CT Crease, MB Sports Training

If there’s one thing that you find in traveling around college hockey it is that no two rinks are alike. Each arena, whether old or new, large or small, urban or rural, has its own distinctive attributes. But there may be no rink in all of college hockey as distinctive as Yale’s own David S. Ingalls Rink. In fact, the New York Times named it the rink with the "Best Design" across all of America.   Read More

THE NAME, ARCHITECTNamed after former Yale men's ice hockey captains David S. Ingalls '20 and David S. Ingalls Jr. '56, the rink was designed by famed architect Eero Saarinen '34 and dedicated in 1959. Gifts from the Ingalls family provided the bulk of the funding for its construction. Since hosting its first intercollegiate game on December 3, 1958, when the Bulldogs faced Northeastern, the rink has been an architectural marvel. The arena gets its distinctive exterior look from a humpbacked roof, supported by a 300-foot backbone. As a result, the building has been compared to a Norse helmet and a brontosaurus, but neither of those names stuck like the Yale Whale, the arena’s most common colloquialism.