Transcript – Dan Craig, NHL’s Facilities Operation Manager Q: How does this work from the truck to the ice? “What it is… is it’s similar to your freezer. This is similar to the little compressor in the back of a [refrigerator] and the coils on the back of the fridge are the piping that goes into the floor. What we do is we take the truck and we park it out on the street and then we put the pipes down to the floor and we have a portable floor that we put together. And all the solution from the truck flows down into the floor, turns around and comes back and we make sure that the floor is nice and cold.” Q: So the truck essentially makes the ice? “Well, it keeps the floor cold so that we can put water on it to freeze it.

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