Just after a Saturday night basketball game, Carrier Dome Managing Director Pete Sala leads student workers as they install the plywood subfloor covering the football turf.

The Ice Rink Events team: (L to R) Donna Mosher, Charles Mosher, Don “Scooter” Mosher, Mike Clayton and Rick Mosher. Also on the team were Doug Estelle, Tony Cuchiarale and Al Korrigan.

Syracuse Crunch COO Jim Sarosy (right) and Jim Hartnett meet to review the final installation prior to game-day.

The hockey set-up squeezes into the Carrier Dome’s basketball configuration. The AHL Syracuse Crunch get a chance to practice on the new ice arena, created on a blank football field in just three days.

The 28 miles of ½” diameter cooling tubes are rolled out, each with integral 6” PVC headers with snap-together clamps. Not a single hand tool is needed in the eight- hour assembly of the entire ice rink floor.

The Syracuse Crunch and Utica Comets line up for the national anthem.

A new attendance record for an indoor professional hockey game in the United States is set as

30,715 fill the massive Carrier Dome.

The 200’x85’ hockey rink takes shape, with glass going up and player-penalty boxes installed.

Once the game is over, an army of Syracuse University students moves in to hammer out and cart away the ice sheet. The dashers are dismounted and the cooling mats rolled up.

Project Manager Jim Hartnett and Ice Rink Events’ Scooter Mosher oversee the first resurfacer drive over the freshly

painted and lined rink. ISI EDGE SPRING 2015

The university’s football field begins to reveal itself once again as the rink and subfloor are removed. The entire removal process is complete in a record-setting 17 hours.

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