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As of 2008 the Dunedin Ice Stadium will be becoming larger than the standard international size!
http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2007/12/04/iihf-shrinks-its-rinks/%5B/url:3fmae2gi%5D
That blog posting is actually quite misleading – the IIHF rules on rink sizes aren’t changing, and our rink will continue to be the correct size.
What the IIHF has decided, is to keep things exactly the same as the status quo. Currently Canadian and US rinks tend to be slightly narrower. The question was whether IIHF events held in those two countries should be required to be on full size rinks. This would require any rinks hosting those champs to restructure their ice and move seats etc.
They decided not to. However the ruling only applies to those two countries. IIHF events everywhere else will still be held on IIHF sized rinks.
They also decided to retain the smaller neutral zone that you see in North America.
Full story is at http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news … 714d2135a9
Thanks for the clarification Kyle. Looks like the IIHF has a shiny new website too, which is a good thing as their old one was pretty crappy.
Actually it got me wondering which rinks in NZ are made to IIHF standards. I know ours is. I presume Paradise in Auckland is, as the a couple of years ago we hosted IIHF mens when the Ice Blacks got pounded. Are there any others?
AFAIK rinks don’t need to meet IIHF regulations for some minor competitions – I think I read that somewhere or other, and I’m not sure what ‘minor’ is defined as. Alexandra is slightly bigger than IIHF, but it doesn’t have a full glass enclosure of course so that would count it out. Other than that, there are no other rinks of the correct size, let alone meeting the other random specifications like board heights, glass etc in New Zealand.
Interesting tidbit of info: In the Calgary Roller Hockey League (that I used to play in) the rules required three mens changing rooms, three womens changing rooms and separate womens and mens changing rooms. So that would count out every rink in New Zealand!
I presume a roof is required for IIHF standards. Cause a blizzard would make an ice hockey world champs real interesting.
"leftright":2bzm8q2o wrote:Tekapo is 60 X 30 with glass at both ends. does that count?.
[/quote:2bzm8q2o]Weird, I thought it was 50x25m or something like that. It even felt small when I was on it. But I guess being surrounded by trees/hills makes it feel smaller than it really is. AFAIK IIHF regulations require glass around the entire perimeter too, so it would probably fail on that count too.
Don’t know if this has been said and I’m sure it has, but I’ll say it anyways. If there is going to be any IIHF events in North America, then they will use North Maerican ice sizes, which are smaller. This is mainly due to the fact that it is cheaper to run. This was researched by the people doing the 2010 games for Vancouver and they saw the cost to convert GM Place to international sizes would cost up-words to around $10 Million. A little too pricey. So basically this is just a money saving thing rather then hockey quality. It also has to do with seating. Those seats at an NHL right along the ice go for about $200. To take those out would mean lost revenue for the league and what not. The NHL and the Olympics are money making businesses and any extra money they can take in looks good for them. So those are most likely the main reasons for the change in IIHF events in North America.
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