Know who’s the latest to take notice of Verizon Center’s poor ice quality? No less than the new Executive Director of the NHLPA, Paul Kelly. In particular, he mentioned the building temperature to The Hockey News:
“I think frankly that there’s been an unfortunate deterioration of the ice condition in certain arenas, because they load the arenas with multiple events.
“For example, having watched the Capitals/Rangers game (recently) in Washington, it was too warm in that building. It was simply too warm, and it had to affect the ice surface.”
