Tahiti Tsunami

At a glance

Papeete, French Polynesia—plays at The Lagoon Circuit, capacity 6,700. A Season 3 arrival, sorted into La Conférence du Verglas.

The most remote arena in active league play. The Almighty Ice has always found the places you would least expect. The Tsunami play beautiful Hockay in a paradise that should not have any. The Lagoon Circuit seats 6,700 and every seat is sacred.

Identity

• City: Papeete, French Polynesia
• Arena: The Lagoon Circuit
• Capacity: 6,700
• Colors: #009B9E / #E87040
• Conference: La Conférence du Verglas
• Joined: Season 3 expansion

Arena modifier—Swell

The tide comes in. Play at The Lagoon Circuit accelerates with every period. The assessment team’s explanations all begin with “something about the water.”

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The arena—lore

The Lagoon Circuit is the most remote arena in active league play, and Le Council notes—as it has learned to note—that The Almighty Ice has always been drawn to the places one would least expect to find it. The ice is of the verglas form. Under the Swell designation, play accelerates with every period: the tide comes in, and by the third the game is running faster than either roster planned to skate it. The assessment team’s explanations all begin with something about the water. The arena seats six thousand seven hundred. The assessment team reports that every seat is treated as sacred, and that after a week on site they had come to agree. The Tsunami play beautiful Hockay in a paradise that should not contain any. It contains this.

The arena—building

Built out over the lagoon on a platform of pale timber, ringed by water on every side and reached by a single causeway that is submerged at the highest tides and used anyway. The roof is a shallow inverted curve of woven panels on a laminated frame, open at the eaves, and the light that comes in off the lagoon is thrown up into it and back down onto The Almighty Ice in a moving pattern the assessment team described as the reason its instruments were late. The 6,700 seats are timber benches, unnumbered, and are occupied by arrangement rather than by ticket. Through the ice, in good light, the lagoon floor is visible. Le Council has confirmed that the ice is of regulation thickness and has not attempted to reconcile the two observations.

S.H.I.F.T. movements

Season 03 window · 12–17 October 2026

• Trade. Sent Moea Tapare (RW) to Atlantis Amonites. Received Triton Yssale (RW) in return, for the third line, round two.
• Trade. Sent Manutea Flores (RW) to Kyiv Kestrels. Received Serhiy Marchenko (RW) in return, for the third line, round one.
• Trade. Sent Rautea Maraetaata (D) to McMurdo Monoliths. Received Amira Hassan (D) in return, for the second defence pair, round two.
• Trade. Sent Teva Tehei (LW) to Reykjavik Ravens. Received Ragnar Stefánsson (LW) in return, for the third line, round one.
• Signing. Signed Ifeoma Chukwu (D) from the unattached pool for the second defence pair. Released Vaimiti Tetuanui (D) to the pool, round one.
• Signing. Signed Rasmus Holt (D) from the unattached pool for the second defence pair. Released Tuatini Marama (D) to the pool, round one.
• Trade. Received Nikolai Popov (RW) from Moscow Mules for the third line. Sent Heimana Wong (RW) the other way, round one.
• Signing. Signed Esperanza Quiroga (G) from the unattached pool in goal. Released Raiarii Amaru (G) to the pool, round two.
• Trade. Sent Tama Bruneau (LW) to Wellington Whales. Received Liam Tomoana (LW) in return, for the third line, 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 Swell.
• Glossary—every term, A–Z.