TD Banknorth Garden is a sports arena in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after its sponsor, TD Banknorth, and is often called simply The Garden, or the traditional Boston Garden and formerly known as the FleetCenter and the Shawmut Center. It is the home arena for the Boston Bruins, an NHL team, and the Boston Celtics, an NBA team. It was formerly home to the Boston Blazers of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL, later the National Lacrosse League) but in 2009 will be home to the NLL's new Boston Blazers.  It is the site of the annual Beanpot, and hosts the annual Hockey East Championships. The arena has also hosted many major national sporting events including the 1999 and 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball First and Second Rounds and the 2006 Women's Final Four. In addition, the facility has hosted the 2001 US Figure Skating Championships, the 1996 and 2000 US Gymnastics Trials, the 1998 and 2004 NCAA Men's Frozen Four, the 1996 NHL All-Star Game, and World Wrestling Entertainment's WrestleMania XIV in 1998. It has also hosted the King of the Ring 2000, Royal Rumble 2003,SummerSlam 2006, and will be hosting WWE Survivor Series 2008.. Like most sports arenas, it also hosts other events, such as concerts, shows, conventions, graduations, seminars, ice shows, circuses, and most notably the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

 

TD Banknorth Garden is one of three NBA arenas (Target Center in Minneapolis (home of the Minnesota Timberwolves) and Amway Arena in Orlando (home of the Orlando Magic) with parquet floors. The Celtics are best known for the tradition of the parquet floor, originally built after World War II because of cost and the scarcity of lumber in that time. However, a traditional floor was used in the 2006 NCAA Women's Final Four. (Izod Center, known as the Continental Airlines Arena until October 2007, also uses a parquet floor, but has not used it for anything other than college basketball since 1997.)