84 Lumber Arena (formerly The RMU Island Sports Center Ice Arena) is a 1,200-seat hockey rink located at the RMU Island Sports Center, accessible via exit 65 of Interstate 79 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Neville Island in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The RMU Island Sports Center was built in 1998, and houses several ice and inline skating rinks, a golf range, a miniature golf course, athletic fields, a strength and fitness center, and a pro shop.
It is home to the Robert Morris Colonials men's and women's NCAA Division I ice hockey teams competing in Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America respectively, as well as RMU's club hockey team competing at the ACHA Division I level in the Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League. The 84 Lumber Arena is also the home to the Duquesne Dukes men's ice hockey team at the ACHA Division I level in College Hockey Mid-America and Chatham College's women's hockey team competing at the NCAA Division III level in the ECAC West, and various local youth hockey programs. In addition, it is home to the Pittsburgh Curling Club.
The arena served as the former home of the Pittsburgh Forge Junior-A NAHL team, which folded in 2003.
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indelibly all over the atlas, who now in a far country
remembers the first river, the first
field, bricks and lumber dumped in it ready for building,
that new smell, and remembers
the walls of the garden, the first light.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“O the joy of the strong-brawn’d fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)