Amsterdam Aardvarks

At a glance

Amsterdam, Netherlands—plays at The Floating Canal, capacity 17,400. A Season 3 arrival, sorted into La Conférence du Givre.

A canal city got a rink. Nobody blinked. The Aardvarks are methodical, persistent, and mildly impossible. Their fans arrive by bicycle and heckle with great politeness.

Identity

• City: Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Arena: The Floating Canal
• Capacity: 17,400
• Colors: #E8612D / #1C2B4A
• Conference: La Conférence du Givre
• Joined: Season 3 expansion

Arena modifier—Tolerance

All penalty severity is reduced by one tier. A major becomes a minor. A minor becomes a warning. Amsterdam has seen worse.

See all arena modifiers for cross-comparison.

The arena—lore

The assessment team reports that a canal city was given a rink and that no one in the canal city appeared surprised. Under the Tolerance designation, every penalty at The Floating Canal is reduced by one tier—a major becomes a minor, a minor becomes a warning—on the operating principle, per the assessment team, that Amsterdam has seen worse. The ice is of the givre form, pale and layered. The Aardvarks are methodical, persistent, and mildly impossible to move. Their supporters arrive by bicycle and heckle with what the assessment team described, at some length, as aggressive courtesy. The Aardvarks are patient the way water is patient, and the city was built by people who lost that argument.

The arena—building

The building floats. It is moored, not founded—a broad steel pontoon carrying a brick-clad hall in the manner of the warehouses along the same water, gabled, hoist-beam and all, and it rises and falls with the canal by a margin the facilities office measures in centimeters and describes as within tolerance. The 17,400 seats are arranged in three shallow tiers with a standing terrace at the eastern end. The Almighty Ice surface is dead level at all times, which is not a property the hull around it shares, and Le Council has received the relevant engineering report and understood roughly a third of it. Bicycles are racked along the entire quay, four deep, and are not locked. The penalty box has a window onto the water. It is generally the most comfortable seat in the building.

Season 03

Sixth in the Givre. Beat third-seeded Atlantis 2-1, then lost the semifinal to Nairobi 2-1.

See the season cycle for the full bracket.

S.H.I.F.T. movements

Season 03 window · 12–17 October 2026

• Trade. Received Yuki Sato (C) from Tokyo Titans for the third line. Sent Eva Bos (C) the other way, round one.

See the S.H.I.F.T. for how a movement is filed, voted, and registered.

See also

• Teams overview—all 48 franchises.
• The conferences—how the Verglas and the Givre were sorted.
• Arena modifiers—the mechanic behind Tolerance.
• Glossary—every term, A–Z.