On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Joel Mack wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Charles E Bell wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity, what percentage of NHL rinks are olympic size?  I had
> > heard that most were smaller.
> Not absolutely certain, but I'm thinking it's 0%.  As far as I know
> (which, admittedly, is only around the corner and down the street aways)
> all of the NHL rinks are "North American" dimensions...
 
As far as I know. Calgary's rink can be converted to Olympic size (when
the Olympics were there it was, oddly enough, Olympic size), but they
choose not to. After all, a rink that's 15 feet wide would mean fewer
seats. The NHL had its opportunity to go to Olympic size about 10 years
ago, before the building boom started. Now that it appears to have
subsided, I would think that there is no way they will go in that
direction.
 
FWIW, AFAIK about 2% of Major Junior rinks are Olympic-sized. (That's 1
out of about 45).
 
> Pssst....I heard RPI is moving to Hockey East!  True?
 
You know, I was talking to a friend in Arnprior, and he said that he was
talking to someone who knows Dan Fridgen's mother and she is absolutely
certain that RPI is moving to Hockey East.
 
Can we start up the WCCHA rumour while we're here?
 
See you later,
John
 
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