The officials size of an NHL Rink is 200 by 85
Olympic ice is 200 x 100

http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26458

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From: "Troy Taylor" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: Rink Sizes


> Isn't rit's rink like 185 x 80
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> From: EPS <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:54:58
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> Subject: Re: Rink Sizes
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> 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
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> Subject: Rink Sizes
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>> 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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