vikash1987
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My question: what are some examples, from hockey history, of games being affected by weather-related arena conditions?
The inspiration for this thread was my look back at Game 7 of the 1971 Stanley Cup Finals between the Canadiens and Black Hawks. Chicago was undergoing a massive, unseasonable heat wave at the time: temperatures were in the upper 80s outside, and even higher---in the 90s---inside Chicago Stadium. The ice was soft during the game, and a fog haze developed multiple times which affected the players' rhythm in the 1st period. One of the sports editors even referred to the arena that evening as a "steaming cauldron." (It wasn't all bad: in attendance among the 20,000 were lots of beautiful young women donning hot pants because of the weather, who ended up being showcased nationally in the U.S. on the evening news the next day!)
I'm sure there are other, even better examples of severe heat waves, cold fronts, etc. having an influence on ice-level conditions of certain games---be they crucial playoff games or not. But I'm struggling to think of them.
The inspiration for this thread was my look back at Game 7 of the 1971 Stanley Cup Finals between the Canadiens and Black Hawks. Chicago was undergoing a massive, unseasonable heat wave at the time: temperatures were in the upper 80s outside, and even higher---in the 90s---inside Chicago Stadium. The ice was soft during the game, and a fog haze developed multiple times which affected the players' rhythm in the 1st period. One of the sports editors even referred to the arena that evening as a "steaming cauldron." (It wasn't all bad: in attendance among the 20,000 were lots of beautiful young women donning hot pants because of the weather, who ended up being showcased nationally in the U.S. on the evening news the next day!)
I'm sure there are other, even better examples of severe heat waves, cold fronts, etc. having an influence on ice-level conditions of certain games---be they crucial playoff games or not. But I'm struggling to think of them.