Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton begins Heritage Classic transformation

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With less than two weeks left until puck drop, crews are hard at work preparing Commonwealth Stadium for the Heritage Classic.

Mike Craig, the NHL’s senior manager of facility operations, is part of the team in charge of the ice and also helped in 2003. He says it’s a much more streamlined process than it was for the first Heritage Classic, but it’s still a lot of work.Dozens of staff are currently putting down a base layer of mats. They’ll then put up ice pans, the bottom of the ice sheet. When that’s done, 18 ice crew members will then begin on the ice surface.

“We’ll put some sensors in the ice, and we can monitor our ice temperatures there,” explained Derek King, the NHL’s senior director of facility operations and hockey operations. “So we know exactly the temperatures coming up to the truck, how long it gets to the floor and then we’ll talk to the guys running the truck back, so we can really dial in what we want for game time.”Despite the tech, weather is always a challenge – but the crew is prepared for that, too.

 

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