The initial process takes about three days before each season. But the real work for the crew is maintaining it throughout 40-plus NHL games.
John Lawton, of South Philadelphia, Stenton Painting, works on painting the hockey lines on the ice at the Wells Fargo Center earlier this month.As Eddie Vedder finished belting out “Yellow Ledbetter,” and the last chord was struck, time began ticking at the Wells Fargo Center.
“When it comes to building ice, you don’t want to put water on top of water that hasn’t frozen yet,” Chris Jennings, the ice crew manager at the Wells Fargo Center told The Inquirer. “So we go spray it. It takes about 10 minutes, 15 minutes to freeze entirely, and then we’re ready to go again. “We have points that we put in ahead of time, so that when the time comes and we come out here, it’s just everything seems to flow,” Stephen Ryan, a carpenter who has been helping to create the ice for four years, told The Inquirer. “We snap the lines, they paint, we have the templates all made, so it seems to run smoothly right here.”
This final stage ended Thursday with the final pass by the Zamboni and the FastIce Zamboni system, which is an electric system that facilitates a more efficient process to avoid any issues with the ice. It allows for more control and automates a specific percentage of water to make sure each layer is perfectly replicated.
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