Ice for ice-hockey games – real or artificial?
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ICE IS ICE. FROZEN WATER. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FAKE ICE
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its used to smooth and ice surface for sports and entertainment, mainly hockey and figure skating.
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As opposed to artificial?
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My opinion is that the ice is cold. What is yours?
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Both...hockey is one of the best spectator sports and really have to be at the game to get the full effect and the awesome atmosphere
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i remember my first time buying a composite sticks and right from we got on the ice i received a pass and my stick broke right away then i went back to my wooden stick which is much better and cheaper then the composite sticks. I'm sick of seeing it in the NHL your team is on the power play or the game is in the dieing moments and your defenceman shoots the puck but it goes nowhere cause his stick broke then the other team gets a breakaway or the game is over i hate  the composite sticks.\n\nChief>>>>my composite stick was worth $160.00 not cheap, and they suck, players in the NHL don't really like them cause they break way to easy but they love them cause they are super light.
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No the ice is the base surface of entertainment.  They have 2 platforms to put on top the basketball court and a platform for concerts, wrestling, ect...  It takes just a few hours for a good experienced to change it over.  They do not melt the ice just place the surface on top.  In rare occurrences it will leak.  I used to see it happen once every couple of years at the Boston Garden for a Celtics game.
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Ice hockey in every way.  Playing or watching.  Street and ring hockey is just not fast enough, or tough enough.  Grass hockey is just too boring due to the large surface and again, lack of speed.
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both are fun.  i can't skate but i like watching pro ice hockey.  as far as inline, it is fun to play becuz it can be done indoor and outdoor.
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In Saratoga Springs, NY where it can get very cold (and Olmpic Speed Skaters have competed on an oval rink) the ground is sprayed with water and allowed to freeze in a natural shallow basin that was bulldozed into an oval track with land in the middle.  Water can then be sprayed on top of the original ice layer to thicken it without melting through.  When the ice layer is thick enough, the entire area can be slowly flooded.  The water used is at groundwater temperature from a hydrant using a fire hose.  I believe that groundwater is about 46F here but will vary from city to city as it is basically the average temperature of all the water that seeps into the ground during a typical year.  The lowest temperature of drain water is of course 32F.  Thus the water is only 14F warmer than the ice being layed down and it must be well below freezing to prepare the rink.  A hockey rink could be built the same way by omitting the land in the middle; but it would require more water.\n\nOf course, ice rinks can be located on a lake or pond if it freezes thick enough.  The NY State Park here has a special rectangular rink that merely requires flooding for figure skating and recreation.
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Hockey is more exciting because there's more non-stop action.  Football is great to watch too, but there are too many strutting, posturing idiots like Terrell Owens out there, who think the whole game revolves around them.  Hockey has no one like that, thank God.  It's a true team sport.
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No, but it was once a ball. Ice hockey started by using the ball from field hockey (naturally), but it was too bouncy, so they cut it into a disc.
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Soccer is the ultimate physical chess match. To move the ball around and in a way to be able to score is much harder than even hockey. that is why the low score. Also the point that there is not scoring of multiple points as basketball or football and such. Plus the defense is ever present. Not like other sports. And the ball, being much larger than a puck, is harder to sneak pass the goal tender.
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I've seen a pretty decent replica made of rolled poster board (for the bottom) with an aluminum bowl taped to the top.  Wrap the whole thing with aluminum foil, and ta da, a replica Stanley Cup.
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here is my opinion on it.  with hockey, the longer you play the harder and harder it is to maintain a level of excellence.  very few people can play hockey really well.  while the same is true for soccer, i think it is to a lesser degree.  i would chose soccer.
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Ice Hockey. One of the fastest moving exciting sports.....
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