Panama Pangolins
The world’s most important passageway got a rink. The Almighty Ice has always understood transit. The Pangolins roll up and wait. Then they unfurl at the worst possible moment. The Lock opens when they choose.
Identity
Section titled “Identity”- City: Panama City, Panama
- Arena: The Lock
- Capacity: 18,600
- Colors:
#1A5C3A/#C87D28 - Conference: La Conférence du Verglas
- Joined: Season 3 expansion
Arena modifier—Transit
Section titled “Arena modifier—Transit”Visiting player modifiers are applied at 150% strength—positive and negative alike. Everything passing through Panama is amplified. The Lock is not subtle.
See all arena modifiers for cross-comparison.
The arena—lore
Section titled “The arena—lore”The world’s most important passage was given a rink, and Le Council notes that The Almighty Ice has always understood transit. The ice at The Lock is of the verglas form—clear, hard, fast. Under the Transit designation, every modifier a visiting player carries is amplified to one and a half times its strength, for good and for ill alike: everything passing through Panama is made larger. The Pangolins roll up and wait. Then, at the least convenient moment available to them, they unfurl. The Lock opens when the Pangolins choose. Visitors are welcome to time their arrival. Visitors are not, per the assessment team, permitted to time their departure.
The arena—building
Section titled “The arena—building”A working chamber. The building is a concrete lock, full-scale and structurally genuine, with the gates at either end intact and operable and The Almighty Ice laid across the floor of it where the water would be. The 18,600 seats are cut into the chamber walls in steep banks, so that the whole crowd looks down at the ice from above the old waterline, and the acoustics are those of a concrete box, which is to say total. The gates are opened for the teams and closed behind them. Le Council’s facilities office has confirmed that they are opened again afterward. The mechanism is original, is maintained, and is loud enough that the horn at The Lock is largely ceremonial. Nothing in the building is decorated. Everything in the building works.
S.H.I.F.T. movements
Section titled “S.H.I.F.T. movements”Season 03 window · 12–17 October 2026
Section titled “Season 03 window · 12–17 October 2026”- Trade. Received Nora Dahl (RW) from Oslo Owls for the third line. Sent Rubén Castillero (RW) the other way, round one.
See the S.H.I.F.T. for how a movement is filed, voted, and registered.
See also
Section titled “See also”- Teams overview—all 48 franchises.
- The conferences—how the Verglas and the Givre were sorted.
- Arena modifiers—the mechanic behind Transit.
- Glossary—every term, A–Z.