Posted on01 December 2008.
Thunderbird Arena on UBC Campus will act as secondary hockey venue for 2010 Vancouver Olympics and primary for Paralympics Sledge hockey. I took in a UBC collegiate match to see the improvement to the venue. Note the eco-friendly Olympia “Olympic Edition” ice re-surfacing machine and though there is a re-sizeable ice surface, games will be played on the smaller NHL dimensions rather than International size.
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UBC hockey game scoreboard
uncleweed - who has written 47 posts on Vancouver Access 2010.
Poet, podcaster, public-policy pundit and chronic documentarian from his earliest days, world-rambling Dave Thorvald Olson spends his time writing, painting and listening to old vinyl albums on the back porch whilst gazing at North Vancouver’s mountains and trees.
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Are the dimensions of the Olympic hockey venue, in Vancouver, the same length and width as all venues in the NHL? If different, how so, they seem to be wider. Thank you!