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Homework has Already Begun for Rink-Builder Craig
by Tony on 12/20/10 at 04:52 PM ET
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From NHL.com’s Dan Rosen:
Dan Craig watched from his couch as CBS’s cameras caught fantastic images of the snow swirling around Heinz Field on Sunday afternoon during the Steelers’ game against the Jets. Through his own television screen he could tell where snow was piling up, which end zone got worse, and in which direction the snow was blowing heaviest. This wasn’t just another Sunday on the couch for Craig. This was homework for a man who, starting around midnight Friday, will take over that very same field in Pittsburgh to begin its transformation into a hockey rink so the Penguins and Capitals have somewhere to play the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic.
“I did watch it as a fan, but it’s one of those things where there are patches on the ground that I was watching within the field and I was watching the way the snow was swirling,” Craig, the NHL’s Facilities Operations Manager, said during a conference call Monday. “You take record of it. You say, ‘OK, that’s what is happening at this end zone and that end zone,’ but until you stand there and really are able to work with it you (don’t) get a true appreciation.”
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