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by Paul on 11/28/07 at 07:58 PM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
Here’s a suggestion for the governors to chew over before the Pittsburgh Penguins get too far along in their plans for a new building or before the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames complete their construction plans.
Why not allow clubs with new buildings on the horizon to adopt a slightly larger ice surface than the current 200-by-85-foot sheet that is standard in the NHL? The idea of expanding the width by as little as five feet makes sense in an era when players are bigger, stronger and faster. Almost every time someone mentions making the game better, that’s a talking point, that you need to go not necessarily to the international width (100 feet, too wide by some standards), but to 90 feet, just so it isn’t so crowded out there.
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This topic was brought up on the NHL Hour yesteday, and there was no mention of altering the ice surface for new buildings. Bettman did say changing the ice surface in current rinks would also change the site lines for the fans in the seats, so no to changing the ice dimensions in current rinks.
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Bigger ice at the new rinks would give the home teams an advantage. I would definitely do it if I were Pittsburgh, Calgary or Edmonton.
Posted by w2j2 on 11/29/07 at 08:06 AM ET
Again, the parameters should be that the rink can be no smaller than the NHL decreed ice surface and no larger than the Olympic ice surface and leave it up to the teams to decide, just like soccer’s got field parameters and baseball as well.
Posted by phillyd from New Jersey on 11/29/07 at 09:58 AM ET
Thanks Gary for protecting the inegrity of sight lines and not the four rows of $100 seats.
Posted by Dale Stewart from Moosejaw on 11/29/07 at 10:31 AM ET
The best thing they could possibly do for hockey would be plan ahead for larger ice in the future. I fully expect them to fail to take this obviously wise measure.
Posted by false_cause from DC on 11/29/07 at 11:48 AM ET
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As I recall, there were both guys who played in the Finnish Elite League and NHL’ers who toured Europe during the lockout had lots of good things to say about the Finnish rinks, which were something like 92-93” wide. They said the extra seven-to-eight feet was just perfect.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 11/28/07 at 09:57 PM ET