Games in Europe

[hockeyinsider]

Does anyone know for sure if the rinks in Europe were made to NHL size (200 feet long and 85 feet wide) for the World Cup of Hockey? All the media outlets in Canada and the U.S. are saying they are playing on international sized surfaces, despite what the official World Cup of Hockey site says.

[Jazz]

It is NHL sized....you see the on the ice during the Finnish game how the ice has been painted over to make the dimensions fit...

[Gabri]

Yeah...shrinked to 60 m x 25 m

[Brimsek]

Does anyone know for sure if the rinks in Europe were made to NHL size (200 feet long and 85 feet wide) for the World Cup of Hockey? All the media outlets in Canada and the U.S. are saying they are playing on international sized surfaces, despite what the official World Cup of Hockey site says.

During US boadcast of Finland and the Czech Republic they discussed the rink size and how the ice was downsized to NHL size.