Benchmarking: How’s Your Arena Doing?
Use this ratio to easily benchmark your ice arena to compare it to itself. The Quinton Equation can even help get buy-in for future upgrades.
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Category: Management
The Value of Tracking Data – Even Your Drill Tests
How a head ice technician turned to data to improve the ice, and his ice making skills.
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Webinarring: A Positive Side Effect of the Shutdown
A round-up of upcoming webinars that operators and management of ice rinks will be interested in attending.
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In the Mechanical Room: A Picture Tells A Thousand Words…
This Calgary arena manager uses framed pictures in his mechanical room so his operators have an easy reference to what’s what.
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Where Does Drinking Water Come From?
Most — but not all — indoor ice arenas use drinking water to make artificial ice. If you’ve ever wondered where that water comes from, read on…
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Facilities and Public-Private Joint Ventures
Many municipalities, schools and colleges offering sports programs are finding themselves in a...
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Turning an empty department store into an indoor ice arena
Are you thinking about converting that empty retail space into an indoor ice rink? Randy Uens of Rhino Sports did just that, converting an old Zellers Department Store in Belleville, ON into an entertainment centre complete with a 3-on-3 rink…
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Tracking More Than Just Run Time Hours
Tracking is an important way to see how improvements you’ve made are making a difference at your indoor ice arena. Tracking run time hours on your compressors is just part of the story…
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Four Hours of Ice Maintenance — a Month???
To be honest with you, I was shocked when Les Quinton, the Parks & Recreation Manager at the...
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Removing “That’s the way we’ve always done it” from your vocabulary and other Les Quinton-isms for making your arena energy efficient
‘That’s the way we’ve always done it’ – If you want to turn your barn into an energy efficient arena, Les Quinton says you need to toss that phrase from your vocabulary — and four other arena-changing tips…
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Keeping Hockey Stink Out of Locker Rooms
I don’t have a particularly sensitive nose, but even I am not immune to that foul of foul...
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