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    Hockey To Change Ice Colors?

    Hockey To Change Ice Colors?

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    Icy hot? Light shade of blue impressive
    Associated Press


    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- If the ice is colored a soft shade of blue, what does that make hockey's blue lines? Orange of course.

    Don't adjust your TV sets -- the Buffalo Sabres are using Rochester, their AHL farm club, to try out a new colored ice surface that could become the standard once the NHL resumes playing.

    The first test comes Sunday, when Rochester plays Cleveland at Buffalo.

    "It's an experiment, let's leave it at that," Sabres managing partner Larry Quinn said Tuesday while watching Rochester practice.

    Quinn said the test came after NHL officials discussed whether changing the ice color from white would enhance how the game is viewed by fans in arenas and on television.

    The Sabres offered to try it and, after some experimentation, settled on painting the sheet in what they call "electric powder blue." To offset the new colored surface, arena officials decided to make the blue lines fluorescent orange, which is also the color used for the faceoff circles.

    The center line, normally red, is now dark blue.

    NHL officials will attend the game to study the changes and how the new colors might affect the play or change the viewing experience. The Sabres will also produce a game video that will be sent to the league offices for review.

    "We'll monitor it for sure," NHL spokesman Frank Brown said.

    At first glance, the new color schemes are distinctive. The blue provides a softer tone than the glare that generally reflects off the white surface.

    "It gives a very good first impression," Rochester Americans president Steve Donner said. "When you first walk into the building, it's like, 'Wow.'"

    Americans' players liked it.

    "It's kind of cool, actually," forward Thomas Vanek said. "It doesn't affect my game."

    Goaltender Ryan Miller said he initially had difficulty picking up the puck, but is in favor of changing colors if it helps market the game.

    "Any kind of change would help," Miller said. "If they feel like people aren't able to watch or follow on TV, we should make it more television-friendly."

    There's only one question left if the new colors ever came into effect: what would you call a defenseman?

    "Guess, I'd become an orange-liner," Jeff Jillson said.
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    "Any kind of change would help," Miller said. "If they feel like people aren't able to watch or follow on TV, we should make it more television-friendly."
    Yeah, like that glowing puck crap a few years back? Why is it some Americans always complain they cant see the puck, what are they blind?

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    Originally posted by Full Bug
    "Any kind of change would help," Miller said. "If they feel like people aren't able to watch or follow on TV, we should make it more television-friendly."
    Yeah, like that glowing puck crap a few years back? Why is it some Americans always complain they cant see the puck, what are they blind?
    Saw that on the local news this morning, it looks pretty funky!

    I don't miss the orange puck or the glow effect Fox did a few a couple of years ago, but I loved that chip inside the puck thing that could give a speed rating on slap shots.

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    This is no knock against americans cuz i love my neighbours to the south and they are great people and a great nation.

    What i could never understand is how americans have a hard time picking up the puck on tv but they are able to 1) see a little white golf ball being smacked across the course in the air by lets say Tiger woods

    2) able to pick up a baseball in the sky on a bright sunny day on tv but can not catch a black puck on white ice?????????

    Can we say to many BUDWEISERS boys and girls LOL!!!!!!

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    I guess I'm going colorblind...

    That does not look like "electric powder blue", nor do the old blue lines look "fluorescent orange"....

    But hey, I guess I'll have to see it on TV or in person really to make an opinion....
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    I never had a problem watching the game on TV ... following the puck was never any trouble.

    Hated the glowing puck thing they did with the tail that changed color depending on the strength of the shot or pass.

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    Will NHL return is the question..the rink dont need help for me either.
    I think were all capable of seeing the lines & puck..lmao
    kinda dumb if ya ask me.
    How bout making a truce & giving a group hug to each other, eh?
    It is weird theres no NHL for this long. rediculous.

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    Looking at that picture and knowing how greedy the hockey owners are, it's obvious that the ads on the wall stand out better because the walls don't blend in with the ice.
    Call me crazy, but I don't think that the shade of the ice should be the owners biggest concern right now.

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    What's this "Hockey" you all keep talking about?
    Eddie, you fucking moron!

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    One of the Rochester Amerks (the Buffalo Sabres farm club) defensemen said he must be an orange-liner.

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