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Buccaneer Arena is a 3,461-seat, with standing room for an additional 700, multi-purpose arena in Urbandale, Iowa, that is home to the Des Moines Buccaneers ice hockey team in the United States Hockey League. Before the Bucs began playing in 1980, the International Hockey League's Des Moines Oak Leafs and Des Moines Capitols franchise played here.
That same year, the USHL returned to the capitol with the Des Moines Buccaneers. With four team spread across the state, the USHL was now primarily located in Iowa, a situation that became even more noticeable when a team in Wisconsin folded in 1981 and was replaced by the North Iowa Huskies in 1983. While there was a rapid expansion with ...
Des Moines and Urbandale say the planned Buccaneers arena will lose $26.5 million in state aid if a lease agreement can't be reached by year's end Des Moines, Urbandale officials give Merle Hay ...
A native of Antigo, Wisconsin, of Croatian ancestry, [2] Piskula played junior hockey with the Chicago Steel and Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League (USHL). [3] He was recruited to play with the Wisconsin Badgers hockey program, and was a member of the team for three seasons between 2004 and 2007. He appeared in 112 games ...
Despite the Des Moines Buccaneers hockey team exiting a project to build a 3,500-seat arena in the former Younkers department store at Merle Hay Mall, plans for the facility continue.
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In November 2020, the Des Moines Buccaneers hockey team announced they would build a new sports facility in the old Younkers and adjacent areas. The new project will see a 3,500-capacity arena for the Bucs, three additional sheets of ice for tournaments and community use, and a 150-room hotel, to be completed ahead of the 2022-23 hockey season.
The Des Moines Buccaneers host a 2022 groundbreaking for a new arena located in the former Younkers store at Merle Hay Mall. With a pending lease, work could finally get underway this fall, the ...