Wow....thanks for putting that together! My husband and I were just 
discussing this earlier this week, and I was going to look up these stats 
myself. Now I don't have to! :-) I didn't realize how many schools have 
"off" sized rinks. I figured there was some kind of standardization--either 
choose Olympic or NHL sized, but I did know there was at least one school 
with a sheet shorter than 200 (though I thought it was a school out east, 
not a WCHA school). Nice food for thought.

Erin

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From: "Joe Makowiec" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:50 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Rink Sizes

> The ESPN-U announcers for the Vermont-Wisconsin game were talking about 
> rink size, particulary as it related to how the two teams played.  That 
> led me to wonder about the distribution of rink sizes in college hockey. 
> Based on what I found, it seems that WCHA teams are indeed more used to 
> playing on international-sized sheets.  (An international sheet is defined 
> as 30 meters wide, so it's actually just a hair less than 100 feet. 
> Wisconsin's sheet is the closest to this in size.)
>
> Here they are, extracted from USCHO and a couple of other sources:
>
> 200x85  40
> 200x100 8
> 200x90  5
>
> And the outliers:
> 190x85  1  (Minnesota-Duluth (WCHA)) (Wasn't the old Boston Garden rink 
> somewhere in this range?)
> 200x87  1  (Boston College (Hockey East))
> 200x95  1  (Massachusetts (Hockey East))
> 200x97  1  (Wisconsin (WCHA))
> 204x87  1  (Harvard (ECAC))
>
> By conference, they break out like this:
>
> Atlantic Hockey: 200x85 (9), 200x90
> CCHA: 200x85 (10), 200x100 (2)
> CHA: 200x85 (4)
> ECAC: 200x85(10), 200x90, 204x87
> Hockey East: 200x85 (4), 200x87, 200x90(3), 200x95, 200x100
> WCHA: 190x85, 200x85 (3), 200x97, 200x100 (5)
>
> And the full list, by size and school:
>
> 200x85  40
> Air Force (Atlantic Hockey), American International (Atlantic Hockey), 
> Bentley (Atlantic Hockey), Canisius (Atlantic Hockey), Connecticut 
> (Atlantic Hockey), Holy Cross (Atlantic Hockey), Mercyhurst (Atlantic 
> Hockey), RIT (Atlantic Hockey), Sacred Heart (Atlantic Hockey), Bowling 
> Green (CCHA), Ferris State (CCHA), Lake Superior (CCHA), Miami (CCHA), 
> Michigan (CCHA), Michigan State (CCHA), Nebraska-Omaha (CCHA), Notre Dame 
> (CCHA), Ohio State (CCHA), Western Michigan (CCHA), Alabama-Huntsville 
> (CHA), Bemidji State (CHA), Niagara (CHA), Robert Morris (CHA), Brown 
> (ECAC), Clarkson (ECAC), Colgate (ECAC), Cornell (ECAC), Princeton (ECAC), 
> Quinnipiac (ECAC), Rensselaer (ECAC), Saint Lawrence (ECAC), Union (ECAC), 
> Yale (ECAC), Maine (Hockey East), Mass-Lowell (Hockey East), Merrimack 
> (Hockey East), Providence (Hockey East), Denver (WCHA), Michigan Tech 
> (WCHA), North Dakota (WCHA)
>
> 200x100 8
> Alaska (CCHA), Northern Michigan (CCHA), New Hampshire (Hockey East), 
> Alaska-Anchorage (WCHA), Colorado College (WCHA), Minnesota (WCHA), 
> Minnesota State (WCHA), Saint Cloud State (WCHA)
>
> 200x90  5
> Army (Atlantic Hockey), Dartmouth (ECAC), Boston University (Hockey East), 
> Northeastern (Hockey East), Vermont (Hockey East)
>
> 190x85  1
> Minnesota-Duluth (WCHA)
>
> 200x87  1
> Boston College (Hockey East)
>
> 200x95  1
> Massachusetts (Hockey East)
>
> 200x97  1
> Wisconsin (WCHA)
>
> 204x87  1
> Harvard (ECAC)
>
> Joe
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