Utah Hockey Club’s practice facility is 1 of a kind | NHL.com
October 5, 2024
Utah Hockey Club’s practice facility is 1 of a kind | NHL.com
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Looks like they have a giant speed skating track.
You wonder what happens to old Olympic venues.
I played hockey here as a kid. The walk to the ice from the locker rooms was sooooo long. You had to go down a flight of stairs and up another to get to the middle of the oval.
I’d be interested to know if the wider/longer track helps with sprint training, being able to skate in a straight line longer.
That’s pretty cool. Using both the hockey rink and speed skating oval could give them a neat little training advantage.
That place was used for the roller hockey national championship tournament back in 2012.
10 comments
Looks like they have a giant speed skating track.
You wonder what happens to old Olympic venues.
I played hockey here as a kid. The walk to the ice from the locker rooms was sooooo long. You had to go down a flight of stairs and up another to get to the middle of the oval.
I’d be interested to know if the wider/longer track helps with sprint training, being able to skate in a straight line longer.
That’s pretty cool. Using both the hockey rink and speed skating oval could give them a neat little training advantage.
That place was used for the roller hockey national championship tournament back in 2012.
[Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns](https://youtu.be/2JJ_Vb8-Pl0?si=9wNZjKAkIuQ0o8-S)
There’s a lot of video on the groundbreaking of the new practice facility in Sandy but I found this showing a little bit about the current space.
The Olympic oval in Calgary has this same layout configuration as well
My son played a 10U game tournament championship game at the UOO last December. Not great for spectators, but a very cool experience for the kids.
There’s a rink in Enschede, Netherlands just like it.