02-06-2010, 02:44 PM
|
 |
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: fairfax station Virginia us
|
|
|
ATTN: NOVA Goalies
Prince William Ice Center collapsed today, due to the heavy snowfall. It was my High School's home rink, and this sucks. Hopefully some fundraisers will be created to help rebuild it or build a new rink altogether
Prince William Ice Center collapses | InsideNova.com |
02-06-2010, 02:54 PM
|
|
Be Somebody
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Norfolk, VA/Buffalo, NY
|
|
|
daaamn, that sucks. I'm down here in norfolk, I usually play at Chilled Ponds (Pat Cavanaugh's rink, usually a few ex-nhl'ers at drop-in) or iceland up in yorktown
|
02-06-2010, 03:00 PM
|
 |
Don't sign your posts
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Reston, VA
|
|
|
Wow!
I've never played there before, was it a particularly old facility?
Last edited by gort : 02-06-2010 at 03:01 PM.
Reason: derp didnt see link
|
02-06-2010, 09:26 PM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: fairfax station Virginia us
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by gort
Wow!
I've never played there before, was it a particularly old facility?
|
It wasn't that old, and I thought it was in fairly good shape. I was shocked when I heard about this. It even made it to Fox News! |
02-06-2010, 11:21 PM
|
 |
www.shortskates.com
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Coldaccord
daaamn, that sucks. I'm down here in norfolk, I usually play at Chilled Ponds (Pat Cavanaugh's rink, usually a few ex-nhl'ers at drop-in) or iceland up in yorktown
|
Oh cool, I used to work/play there |
02-07-2010, 12:40 AM
|
 |
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Thunder Bay
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by gort
Wow!
I've never played there before, was it a particularly old facility?
|
Quote:
|
We had some speed skaters on the ice this morning, then a beam on ceiling started to twist and ... we got everybody out,“ said Hutzler, who bought the rink in March 2008. The rink was built in 1996
|
Here's your answer in the article... |
02-07-2010, 06:38 AM
|
|
Don't sign your posts
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Reston, VA
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Azarius
Here's your answer in the article...
|
Yeah I replied before I saw the link for the article. 
That's too bad. Here's to hoping the teams that used the facility as a home rink can find adequate ice time elsewhere until it's repaired. |
02-07-2010, 07:45 AM
|
 |
MILK-A-WHAT???
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: US
|
|
I used to play out of there before I moved. Loved that place.  I saw my friends' status updates on FB, and the entire PW Ice community is pretty devastated. No good. |
02-07-2010, 08:22 AM
|
 |
Curmudgeon du Jour
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Too close to D.C.
|
|
|
That was my rink, too. We just started a new season that was supposed to run through June, then they planned to shut down for major re-hab thorughout July.
It sounds as though they will rebuild. Hopefully this time they will put drains in on the floor of the bathrooms (there was no place for shower overspray to go -- go figure.)
Unfortunately, not alot of rinks around, and ice time everywhere was already scarce. Not sure I would be willing (nor would my team) to play in the wee hours of the morning...
|
02-07-2010, 10:19 AM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: fairfax station Virginia us
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Botts
That was my rink, too. We just started a new season that was supposed to run through June, then they planned to shut down for major re-hab thorughout July.
It sounds as though they will rebuild. Hopefully this time they will put drains in on the floor of the bathrooms (there was no place for shower overspray to go -- go figure.)
Unfortunately, not alot of rinks around, and ice time everywhere was already scarce. Not sure I would be willing (nor would my team) to play in the wee hours of the morning...
|
Yeah, I'm not sure what my school team is going to do. We still have a couple games left in our season, all of which were supposed to be played there. My guess is we'll play over at Reston, but I'm not a fan of that rink and it's crowded enough as it is. |
02-09-2010, 04:35 PM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: fairfax station Virginia us
|
|
Prince William Ice Center - a set on Flickr
Here is an album of the damage. Hurts to look at for me personally. I loved that place
|
02-10-2010, 04:39 AM
|
 |
Ok, One for the road...
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Midwest USA
|
|
|
NOVA? Is that like Northern Virginia?
I grew up (****, this was 23 years ago) on the Maryland side. Played for what I thought was NVA, out of MtVernon Ice rink and even had ice time at Tucker Road over in the PGC...
Ahhh memories
|
02-10-2010, 05:24 AM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: fairfax station Virginia us
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by jpower79
NOVA? Is that like Northern Virginia?
I grew up (****, this was 23 years ago) on the Maryland side. Played for what I thought was NVA, out of MtVernon Ice rink and even had ice time at Tucker Road over in the PGC...
Ahhh memories
|
Yeah thats Northern Virginia. Those two rinks are still doing very well! |
02-10-2010, 05:53 AM
|
 |
-save on-
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Columbia, Maryland
|
|
|
wow...reminds me of when the patterson park rink did the same thing (almost 20 years ago). Only that rink was just like a tennis bubble. We played "roofless" until it was fixed. As far as the PW rink goes, I think its only 10-15 years old. That really sucks, hopefully the other rinks int he area will help house some of the displaced teams.
|
02-10-2010, 11:28 AM
|
|
MILK-A-WHAT???
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: US
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbssgoalie011
|
I know the guy who snapped those pics. Kills me to see them too, and I'm not even there. |
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -8. The time now is 02:29 PM.
|
