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    During the USA v Canada junior game, a comparison of US and Canada was displayed...population, #players, etc. The most amazing figure was number of outdoor rinks: US 250 and Canada 11,000.

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    Very interesting fact..though I would be shocked if there is only 250 outdoor rinks in the US..actually maybe that isn't that surprising..

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      I believe one of those is in Key West, FL
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        That is a load of crap. USA Hockey can't count or something. I'd guess Minnesota, without counting the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area has 250 outdoor rinks.
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          Originally posted by Dirty View Post
          That is a load of crap. USA Hockey can't count or something. I'd guess Minnesota, without counting the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area has 250 outdoor rinks.
          Agreed.
          While the US has nowhere near 11k outdoor rinks, they certainly have a lot more than 250. We were talking in the USA/Can game thread last night, and there are at least 25-35 outdoor rinks in Grand Forks/East Grand Forks alone.
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            Originally posted by brianvf View Post
            Agreed.
            While the US has nowhere near 11k outdoor rinks, they certainly have a lot more than 250. We were talking in the USA/Can game thread last night, and there are at least 25-35 outdoor rinks in Grand Forks/East Grand Forks alone.
            Who knows, maybe they were talking about municipal funded and controlled out-door rinks.

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              Originally posted by brianvf View Post
              Agreed.
              While the US has nowhere near 11k outdoor rinks, they certainly have a lot more than 250. We were talking in the USA/Can game thread last night, and there are at least 25-35 outdoor rinks in Grand Forks/East Grand Forks alone.
              I wonder if they got the figures from USA Hockey and those outdoor rinks are STAR partners. They would not count a rec shinny sheet.
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                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                I wonder if they got the figures from USA Hockey and those outdoor rinks are STAR partners. They would not count a rec shinny sheet.
                Who knows.

                If they counted rec sheets as well, then there's probably closer to 80 outdoor rinks in GF/EGF.
                (25-35 outdoor parks, all with warming houses, and usually 2-3 sheets at each park, with one dedicated "hockey" rink with boards/nets/lights).
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                  I would say that pretty much every town in Minnesota has at least 1 outdoor rink...a lot of them have 2-3, and the bigger towns have 5+ often times.

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                      Originally posted by Dirty View Post
                      That is a load of crap. USA Hockey can't count or something. I'd guess Minnesota, without counting the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area has 250 outdoor rinks.
                      You are correct. We have 12 in the area I live in alone. If I had to guess there is way more than 250 outdoor rinks in the twin cities metro.
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                        For what it's worth, there aren't many outdoor rinks at all in Massachusetts that I know of. There's obviously a lot of pond hockey and backyard rinks, but I've only heard of maybe 1 or 2 outdoor rinks that actually have any sort of organized hockey on them, which I assume is what this stat is referring to. From reading this thread and watching Mighty Ducks, I assume it's a different case in Minnesota, but being from Massachusetts, this stat didn't surprise me at all.
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                          Originally posted by Federal League View Post
                          For what it's worth, there aren't many outdoor rinks at all in Massachusetts that I know of. There's obviously a lot of pond hockey and backyard rinks, but I've only heard of maybe 1 or 2 outdoor rinks that actually have any sort of organized hockey on them, which I assume is what this stat is referring to. From reading this thread and watching Mighty Ducks, I assume it's a different case in Minnesota, but being from Massachusetts, this stat didn't surprise me at all.

                          1 or 2 in all of Massachusetts? There are 2 in St Joe county alone in Indiana, and that isn't the extent of the outdoor rinks in this state, and we aren't exactly a hotbed of ice hockey or ice skating. And I too would be shocked if Minnesota alone doesn't go way beyond that 250.

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                            There are also no more outdoor arenas in Maine, now that Hebron has built their rink. I don't think there are any fully outdoor arenas in New Hampshire either. I remember playing "outside" at a prep school on Lake Winnipesaukee (Brewster?) but they had more of a wind tunnel since they had 2 walls and a roof. I don't know of any in MA or VT either...

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                              Originally posted by brianvf View Post
                              Who knows.

                              If they counted rec sheets as well, then there's probably closer to 80 outdoor rinks in GF/EGF.
                              (25-35 outdoor parks, all with warming houses, and usually 2-3 sheets at each park, with one dedicated "hockey" rink with boards/nets/lights).
                              In the Crystal/New Hope area, there are at least a dozen (lights/boards/warming houses). Currently, I don't know how many warming houses are staffed (they've been waning over the last few years due to budget cuts for the cities), but AFAIK the lights etc still come on. And those two suburbs of Minneapolis are not even close to the biggest suburbs.
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