{"id":646,"date":"2011-02-17T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=646"},"modified":"2023-08-10T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:26:22","slug":"from-slapshots-to-three-point-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2011\/02\/17\/from-slapshots-to-three-point-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"From Slapshots to Three Point Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington <em>Post<\/em>&#8216;s always entertaining <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080901234225\/http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/capitalsinsider\/\">Capitals Insider<\/a>, now ably helmed by Katie Carrera in place of the former longtime Caps beat reporter Tarik El-Bashir, features a nifty timelapse video of the ice-to-hardwood transition that the Verizon Center undergoes when switching from ice hockey mode to basketball mode (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210917071310\/http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/capitalsinsider\/video-watch-verizon-centers-ic.html\">Video: Watch Verizon Center&#8217;s ice-to-court changeover<\/a>,&#8221; February 16, 2011):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210917071310\/http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/capitalsinsider\/video-watch-verizon-centers-ic.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/verizonchange.jpg?resize=453%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Screengrab of Ice to Hardwood change at Verizon Center\" title=\"Screengrab of Ice to Hardwood change at Verizon Center\" border=\"0\" width=\"453\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People are always amazed that the ice is still down there during basketball games and concerts. About the only time they physically pull the ice up in a multi-purpose arena is for events like horse shows and monster truck rallies (do such inanities still exist?). Gotta make money, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if they keep the ice down during the hockey off-season or not, especially since the Caps have a dedicated practice facility elsewhere, but I&#8217;d imagine they re-lay the surface shortly before pre-season starts.<\/p>\n<p>Ice quality is, without question, affected by the change to hardwood or other coverings, and the Verizon Center ice has come in for <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130220055856\/http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dcsportsbog\/2010\/05\/leonsis_on_verizon_center_sche.html\">many grumblings over the years<\/a>, but at least, according to the NHL players themselves, it&#8217;s not <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110201170551\/http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/hockey\/allstar\/poll\/arenas-and-teams\/which-rink-has-the-worst-ice\/\">the worst ice in the league<\/a> this season. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110201170551\/http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/hockey\/allstar\/poll\">CBC\/NHLPA poll results<\/a> released over the All-Star weekend, that dubious honor goes to the Panthers&#8217; home rink, the BankAtlantic Center, in Sunrise, Florida. Bad ice in Florida? Who&#8217;d a thunk? Though I wager the ice quality is more directly impacted by the amount of time the ice spends covered for other events than by latitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8216;s always entertaining Capitals Insider, now ably helmed by Katie Carrera in place of the former longtime Caps beat reporter Tarik El-Bashir, features a nifty timelapse video of the ice-to-hardwood transition that the Verizon Center undergoes when switching from ice hockey mode to basketball mode (&#8220;Video: Watch Verizon Center&#8217;s ice-to-court changeover,&#8221; February 16, &#8230; <a title=\"From Slapshots to Three Point Shots\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2011\/02\/17\/from-slapshots-to-three-point-shots\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about From Slapshots to Three Point Shots\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[95,40,43,46],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-dc","tag-ice-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-washington-capitals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6176,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}