Interesting...but missing some information I want. This video seems to make the assumption a typical NHL rink is only made once throughout the year...

What I want to know is how crews can take apart the ice rink within 24 hours, and put the rink back up again within 24 hours. Not just the ice either, but the boards and all that jazz. This video demonstrated installing an NHL rink that seems to require at least 2 days, which is immensely slower then it is being done in multiple arenas.

For example, Rogers Arena (then GM Place) was the home to the Vancouver Grizzlies and the home of the Canucks. There would frequently be a Basketball game one night with a Canucks game less then 24 hours later and a concert less then 24 hours after that. How do they they put things together so quickly? How do they melt and drain the ice, and then install an NBA basketball court within 24 hours followed by reinstalling an NHL rink immediately after within 24 hours? 20 hours is more realistic, as they wouldn't be able to start till about 11pm that night and would have to be ready by 6pm the day after (as pregame skate is about 1 hour before faceoff which is 7pm). That's a video I want to see.

>> ^Tingles:

There would frequently be a Basketball game one night with a Canucks game less then 24 hours later and a concert less then 24 hours after that. How do they they put things together so quickly?


Maybe the ice is still laid once per year and then a sprung floor is fitted above it, in pre-made sections, when required for basketball or other events?

No idea if this is what they actually do, there would still be issues such as keeping the ice cool without affecting the basketball court - possibly an insulating air gap and/or rubber surface - but it's the easiest way I can think of doing it.

Is it me or was that only one person working?

>> ^heathen:

>> ^Tingles:
There would frequently be a Basketball game one night with a Canucks game less then 24 hours later and a concert less then 24 hours after that. How do they they put things together so quickly?

Maybe the ice is still laid once per year and then a sprung floor is fitted above it, in pre-made sections, when required for basketball or other events?
No idea if this is what they actually do, there would still be issues such as keeping the ice cool without affecting the basketball court - possibly an insulating air gap and/or rubber surface - but it's the easiest way I can think of doing it.


Here's how they do it in Raleigh:
http://www.rbccenter.com/default.asp?RBCcenter=186

>> ^ridesallyridenc:

>> ^heathen:
>> ^Tingles:
There would frequently be a Basketball game one night with a Canucks game less then 24 hours later and a concert less then 24 hours after that. How do they they put things together so quickly?

Maybe the ice is still laid once per year and then a sprung floor is fitted above it, in pre-made sections, when required for basketball or other events?
No idea if this is what they actually do, there would still be issues such as keeping the ice cool without affecting the basketball court - possibly an insulating air gap and/or rubber surface - but it's the easiest way I can think of doing it.

Here's how they do it in Raleigh:
http://www.rbccenter.com/default.asp?RBCcenter=186


Nice one, seems I was pretty close. Though I'd never have guessed they did a similar thing with tons of dirt for monster trucks - that's insane!

At the ACC in Toronto, they just put down panels over the ice, and then put the Basketball flooring over the panels. It mucks up the ice pretty bad, and you need to refreeze it before a hockey game. It takes about four hours from Rink to finished Basketball court at the ACC. I think Boston does the same thing for the Celtics.

I've done that many times on tours, assembling the flooring is a pain. A lot of crouching and the ice is cold and slippery.. Also some venues use the cheaper stuff which can freeze in to the ice and is doubly hard to pull them off. Specially when there been some idiot that has taken some of the amps and dimmers out of flightcases.. Brrhh, that involved a lot of swearing.

That's a siftworthy video imo.

On a side note, I didn't know that the Royal Bank of Canada was operating stadiums that far south of the border. >> ^ridesallyridenc:

>> ^heathen:
>> ^Tingles:
There would frequently be a Basketball game one night with a Canucks game less then 24 hours later and a concert less then 24 hours after that. How do they they put things together so quickly?

Maybe the ice is still laid once per year and then a sprung floor is fitted above it, in pre-made sections, when required for basketball or other events?
No idea if this is what they actually do, there would still be issues such as keeping the ice cool without affecting the basketball court - possibly an insulating air gap and/or rubber surface - but it's the easiest way I can think of doing it.

Here's how they do it in Raleigh:
http://www.rbccenter.com/default.asp?RBCcenter=186