bellagiobob
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Bill Hunter was notoriously cheap, If there was any avoidable expense he wasn't paying it. I still remember greyish looking ice at Edmonton Gardens. Thanks to the other posts we know the NHL introduced in 1950-52. I wonder how long it took for all indoor rinks to be using the ice paint. Makes it look a lot better.
Probably my recollection is wrong. I remember the ice looking pretty shitty at the Old Edmonton Gardens most of the time. but heh, come playoff time there were clouds of cigarette smoke in the place too. Sometimes so bad they had to tell the fans to stop smoking so much because the players were hacking. As a kid I found it pretty hard, I was allergic to smoke.
This got me down history aisle again.
Edmonton Gardens - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
The ice definitely wasn't white the one night back in the WHA days when The San Diego Mariners were in town. The rodeo had been to town the week before, and the plywood or whatever barrier they used back then failed, and there was dirt/shit embedded in and sitting on top of the ice at one end of the rink. Disgusting mess. Think it was about at around 8:30 that they finally sent everybody home and postponed the game.