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All About NHL Ice
by Alanah McGinley on 11/26/07 at 01:46 PM ET
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From Carter Gaddis at The Tampa Tribune,
It’s alive. The ice, that is. Not in the biological, breathing-in-and-out sense that defines much of the life on this planet.
But to Tim Friedenberger, it often seems as if the massive sheet of frozen water at the St. Pete Times Forum has a mind of its own. And if it can think…
“It is alive,” said Friedenberger, the Forum’s vice president of facility operations. “It’s a living thing. I’d say every facility, the ice has a personality.”
Like any living thing, a sheet of ice has its good days and bad. A unique facet of the NHL is how vulnerable the aesthetics of the game itself can be to the vagaries of the playing surface.
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There’s a reason I check the weather reports at stations along the Detroit River during Wings games if I think the ice is a little “choppy”—we’ve got a rink that’s built about 1,000 feet inland of the Detroit River, which pumps about 120 billion gallons per day (true!) from stem to stern each day—and each and every rink’s ice is indeed responsive to the weather, the geographic location of the rink, the water used and the chemicals and minerals in that water, crowd size, how long the doors are open, a whole bunch of factors. It’s really fascinating to think about all the factors that go into generating good ice, and how little control the NHL really has over its playing surface!
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 11/27/07 at 02:57 AM ET