For the first time, the League will use two Mobile Refrigeration Units instead of one to pump glycol through the pans and pull heat from the surface. Starting Dec. 23 or 24, the NHL will crank up the air conditioning inside the stadium, and workers will start spraying layers of mist on top of the pans to make a thick, dense ice sheet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think things are going to really smooth,\u201d King said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be able to close in the building, keep everything conditioned, and that\u2019s going to allow us to build it like we would in any other venue.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ice is about 1\u00bc to 1\u00bd inches thick at Amerant Bank Arena, the Panthers\u2019 usual home. Here, it will be 2 to 2\u00bd inches thick, so the NHL can remove water rather than add it, if necessary.<\/p>\n
King said the plan is to open the roof for the game Jan. 2. The game will be at night, when the sun is down and the air is cooler.<\/p>\n
How good will the ice be?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the quality is going to be great,\u201d King said. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s a different venue than it is at Amerant Bank or any other facility, so we\u2019ll do our best to control what we can control. We\u2019re not really going to worry too much about the outside conditions. We can make adjustments on the truck and really pay attention to that.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike we\u2019ve said before, practice day for the players is practice day for us. We\u2019ll be able to fine tune the truck, flow down to the rink, and really our goal is to provide the players the best possible sheet we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
The players can\u2019t wait. Panthers general manager Bill Zito called the Winter Classic a \u201cspectacular event\u201d and a \u201cbucket-list type of occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time, the League will use two Mobile Refrigeration Units instead of one to pump glycol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-355098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}