Played many games there in the 90's. Sad!

They can use the space to distribute meals to hungry kids.

_________________
Hawaii (fuck) You

I'm sure the smell will live on. One of the stinkiest and coldest rinks in our area. Still a little sad though.

Yeah, the exhaust from the Zamboni was legendary lol

or house unhoused, unhinged refugees

Lovely eulogy. Very poetic.

_________________

You ever been in it? Picture a tin shed and roof lined with torn mylar sheets on the ceiling. I don't think it's heated. The rink stink and zamboni as blackhawksfan said could knock you over. Still it's where my son learned to skate and had few games there. The ice was pretty bad.

I hadn't really been to a rink in awhile. We went to Center Ice over Christmas break and whoo that's another one. So stinky. I miss it a little. Time goes by quick.

Most of the WI rinks I have been to don't smell terrible unless they all smell terrible and I just am used to it. I've only been to a few IL rinks and they were all decent. We had a tournament at Top Shelf in Gurnee Mills this weekend and that was fine.

_________________
That's my purse! I don't know you!

In my playing, albeit before the French and Indian War, it was the atrocious locker room smell or right on the bench. The rink itself was smelly?

_________________

The locker rooms only smell on Monday after the beer league destroys them and every trash in the building the night before. The kids are also still young enough that they bring all the gear home after every game or practice so the locker rooms are just benches and empty walls. The high school ones might smell like shit were they leave everything there.

_________________
That's my purse! I don't know you!

I remember playing in my twenties at Southwest or Spectrum Ice Arenas and the locker rooms smelled equipment or not. Probably soaked into the padded flooring.

_________________

Centennial in Wilmette is close to 50 years old now. I can't imagine what it is like inside these days.

_________________
"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Maybe that is where Hossa caught his fungus or whatever it was that forced his retirement?

_________________
"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

I've never been in a rink. Now I want to go smell one.

just ask julie de cairo on a date

_________________
the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

If she promises to fall down some stairs

What smells worse DG Ice Arena? Or IkeSouth's twat?

what about Homewood-Flossmoor Ice Arena? also like 50 years old and I'm kind of surprised it's even open anymore given that like 5 white people under the age of 60 live in a 10 mile radius these days

I'm in that area all the time. Mostly hard working middle class Americans. Maybe they're playing hockey. I'll ask around.