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2026 Winter Olympics: Thread Title Under Construction

Ended up in the front row for tonight's game
Spartanforlife4 said:
Somehow I missed the actual layout of the arena amid all the construction news. Is there a reason the seats are so far from the ice? Converting to international width after the Olympics? Better layout for conventions and non-hockey events? I think Beijing had a similar setup, though that didn't really matter with the crowd restrictions in place.
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It's a concert venue built by a concert promoter that's hosting hockey for two weeks.

The other venue is s convention center hosting hockey for two weeks.

There certainly have been issues at both rinks for fans. No toilet paper in a big section of toilets after the 2nd yesterday but fixed for today.

Ran out of beer a few days ago. Shitty signage at Santagiulia about where cash is accepted.

Otherwise, the hockey did hockey well
 
cF[Authentic] said:
Ended up in the front row for tonight's game

It's a concert venue built by a concert promoter that's hosting hockey for two weeks.

The other venue is s convention center hosting hockey for two weeks.
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And ironically, despite being temporary, it's probably the best ice of all skating sports, except maybe long track speed skating. 😭

I didn't know until I saw a video from Apollo Anton Ohno showing them trying to flash freeze the ice during short track speed skating because the venue is shared between short track and figure skating. Two sports who couldn't have wilder different ice temperature requirements. The figure skaters have bitched about the ice being too hard, speed skaters that the ice is too soft and slushy.

What a dissapointment.
 
cF[Authentic] said:
To be fair, I haven't been anywhere near the Canadian events so my interactions have been with people either at bars or at US games.
I've attended enough World Jrs and World Championships to know there are a lot of "passionate" Canadian fans
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Sure, Canadians are great to hang out with in general. I have a bunch of friends just across the border who I visit often. But start talking about hockey ... you better stand back. LOL
 
state of hockey said:
I miss twitter the most immediately after the Wild have beaten a Canadian team. Just absolute white-hot delusional rage. Especially the Leafs. Good times.
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Reddit and r/hockey is always an entertaining read.

Edit: For example the pretty consistent assertion by Canadians that the US men are trash because they aren't scoring like Canada (against a pretty mediocre Czechia, a down Swiss and France) and the US women are overrated and will fold to Canada in the GMG.
 
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Of note, because of back to back games, plenty of the mid-tier teams kind of “threw” their games against the US and Canada by starting their backups against them. Germany didn’t start Grubauer against the US, the Swiss didn’t start Genoni against Canada, and the Danes didn’t start Freddy Anderson against the US. Even the French rotated goalies.
 
US women kept puck in zone for at least 3 minutes 5 on 5, actually changed a couple players during it and finally scored. think there was an icing in there but either way unreal
 
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