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Old 02-13-2010, 05:22 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14 View Post
Yup. The Saddledome was the first major North American arena designed to support Olympic sized ice surfaces.

They went with NA ice for these games because VANOC didn't want to eat the cost of renovating GM Place.
I think that was half of it, the other half was that they would be cutting out like 5 rows of seats, which are all going for a few hundred a pop, and close to 1000 for the gold medal game

I don't think its that big of a deal, 90% of the players are used to play on this size ice anyway
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