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Boards at the Joe More “Lively” for Good Reason
by Alanah McGinley on 05/31/09 at 05:24 PM ET
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From Mike G. Morreale at NHL.com:
Game 1 mystery solved. When Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood said Saturday night that something about the boards at Joe Louis Arena changed two years to make them more lively, the assembled media wondered just what happened. Dan Craig, the Facilities Operations Manager for the NHL, said Sunday that he and his crew installed a new plastic kick plate along the boards at the Joe Louis Arena two years ago. But he added he didn’t see anything different or unusual than he would at any other rink in the League.
“If you go back and watch some of the games earlier this year (at Bell Centre) in Montreal, where we also did a brand new set of boards with a new kick plate, those boards were lively as well,” Craig told NHL.com. “What we did at Joe Louis Arena is similar to what we do in any other building—the front facing gets a little worn down so we took a look at what was behind it (plywood) and replaced the half-inch of plastic that we would have done at any other rink.”
Craig noted the kick plate at The Joe is tightened down well, providing a very solid and “lively” bottom—perhaps the reason the end boards provided so much spring in Game 1.
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