Hockey At The Winter Olympics Is Shaping Up To Be A Disaster After Another Baffling Rink Issue Draws Scrutiny

What's Going On With The Olympic Hockey Arena?

It is 64 days until the first hockey game of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and the main hockey arena is still under construction. A test event, to determine whether the ice is good enough to play on, has already been pushed back. While providing plentiful entertainment for the region's Umarell, the construction delay is proving stressful for everyone else, given that, as a top organizer said last week, "there is…

Hockey At The Winter Olympics Is Shaping Up To Be A Disaster After Another Baffling Rink Issue Draws Scrutiny

USA vs Canada hockey at Winter Olympics in 2010 We’re around two months away from the first hockey game at the Winter Olympics in Italy, and there are some serious concerns that the arena that will host those contests won’t be ready in time. However, it appears there will be an inexplicable issue with the size of the rink regardless of whether or not the venue is ready to go. Italy learned that Milan and Cortina would serve as the host for the 2…

Bill Daly: ‘If rink not completed, no NHLers going to the Olympics’ - Daily Faceoff

There’s also a concern that the ice-surface of the Olympic rink will be smaller than expected.

‘Time is of the essence’: Seravalli on latest Olympic hockey arena concerns

NHL insider Frank Seravalli joins SN Central to discuss the latest in the hockey arena concerns in Italy, with the Olympics just 71 days away, wondering what the NHL is thinking with these arena size issues, and very tight construction timelines.