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Even with the heat, it's game on for hockey at Dodger Stadium
A ballpark at rest is a pleasant place to be … except this one isn't slumbering. It has an NHL-size hockey rink set in the infield, a beach volleyball court in left field, a small pond in right field, an in-line/street hockey area, and two performance stages waiting to be completed.
All of this activity is for the Stadium Series game to be played between the Kings and Ducks on Saturday, the first NHL regular-season outdoor game in the U.S. west of the Rocky Mountains. Puck drop is scheduled for about 7:15 p.m., and Craig has been working the graveyard shift at Dodger Stadium every night the past week to make and maintain the ice for an event that, on first consideration, seems impossible.
Outdoor hockey in Southern California?
It's not a stunt. From a technical standpoint, it's possible because of advances in refrigeration techniques.
Before the game was scheduled, Craig studied 15 years' worth of local weather patterns for this time of year, as he did for such previous cold-weather sites as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. He found the average daytime temperature was 62 to 66 degrees. It has been about 20 degrees warmer than that this week and is expected to reach 80 during the day on Saturday.
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.latimes.com/sports/baseb...ott-20140123-9,0,2914304.column#ixzz2rGVqj0YB
A ballpark at rest is a pleasant place to be … except this one isn't slumbering. It has an NHL-size hockey rink set in the infield, a beach volleyball court in left field, a small pond in right field, an in-line/street hockey area, and two performance stages waiting to be completed.
All of this activity is for the Stadium Series game to be played between the Kings and Ducks on Saturday, the first NHL regular-season outdoor game in the U.S. west of the Rocky Mountains. Puck drop is scheduled for about 7:15 p.m., and Craig has been working the graveyard shift at Dodger Stadium every night the past week to make and maintain the ice for an event that, on first consideration, seems impossible.
Outdoor hockey in Southern California?
It's not a stunt. From a technical standpoint, it's possible because of advances in refrigeration techniques.
Before the game was scheduled, Craig studied 15 years' worth of local weather patterns for this time of year, as he did for such previous cold-weather sites as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. He found the average daytime temperature was 62 to 66 degrees. It has been about 20 degrees warmer than that this week and is expected to reach 80 during the day on Saturday.
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.latimes.com/sports/baseb...ott-20140123-9,0,2914304.column#ixzz2rGVqj0YB
