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[ledname]

Anyone play at Raleigh Street Hockey League or have any info?

[Emitchell]

Originally Posted by TheBigKahunaNC

Did you take a tape measure to it or something? We talking inches, or feet here? They advertise it as olympic sized. "Did you know that the Raleigh IcePlex is North Carolina's ONLY Olympic size sheet of ice?"

No, I have not measured it myself. However my old hockey league teammates remember it as about four feet longer than Olympic ice, maybe a little more.

If memory serves, there was a little more room between the goal line and the end boards. But I also remember when the Hurricanes practiced there, the lines and the zones were set up a little differently to make the offensive zones closer to NHL size.

[TheBigKahunaNC]

That's because olympic ice is larger than NHL ice. They made adjustments for the Canes, but the ice surface is 98.4x197 unless thay made it on odd size for some reason. NHL teams play on 85x 200. Olympic ice is wider by 13.4ft.

[brandon719]

Originally Posted by TheBigKahunaNC

That's because olympic ice is larger than NHL ice. They made adjustments for the Canes, but the ice surface is 98.4x197 unless thay made it on odd size for some reason. NHL teams play on 85x 200. Olympic ice is wider by 13.4ft.

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[Emitchell]

Originally Posted by TheBigKahunaNC

That's because olympic ice is larger than NHL ice. They made adjustments for the Canes, but the ice surface is 98.4x197 unless thay made it on odd size for some reason. NHL teams play on 85x 200. Olympic ice is wider by 13.4ft.

Of course they made adjustments for the Canes, It was the only sheet of ice in Raleigh at that time other than the arena.