Inside the Olympic Hockey Arena Chaos: Secrets and Scandals You Won’t Believe
More recent photos, like the one atop this post, show a building that from the outside looks mostly but not quite done; it’s unclear how far along the barn’s guts are. But the ice itself has become the story. Team Canada assistant coach Pete DeBoer revealed this week that the rink “looks like it’s going to be smaller than NHL rink standards, by probably three or four feet.” DeBoer continued: “I don’t understand how that happened.”
NHL rinks are a uniform 200 feet by 85 feet. IIHF rinks are allowed some leeway in width, but past Olympics have used significantly wider ice surfaces of 60 meters by 30 meters (196.9 feet by 98.4 feet). The Athletic reports that at Santagiulia Arena, the ice will be 60 meters by 26 meters—essentially the same width as an NHL rink, and three-plus feet shorter.
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