No room for error. Or the players, apparently.
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, the new 16,000-seater venue built for the ice hockey at Milano Cortina 2026. The first issue was that officials claimed that there’d be no backup stadium if the arena wasn’t completed with no exact date of completion despite confidence that it would be ready for the Games (there will be a test run in January, just weeks before the Games commence)
Now, it looks like the playing area is smaller than NHL rink specifications:
“The ice surface, it looks like it’s going to be smaller than NHL rink standard by probably 3 or 4 feet,” Peter DeBoer, an assistant on Canada’s men’s team, told Sportsnet’s “Real Kyper and Bourne” show. “I don’t understand how that happened.”
via The Score
I wonder if they got the builders from Springfield for this stadium as it doesn’t bode well.