SoCal connection to Wrigley Game.
From Sporting News Today:
If you're anywhere near Battleship Park in Mobile, Alabama today at noon, check out the 53-foot trailer truck that will be leaving -- with a fair amount of fanfare, no doubt -- for Chicago's Wrigley Field. Inside this truck is the NHL's first traveling refrigeration system, and its deparure signals the beginning of what is billed by the Blackhawks as the "Road to Wrigley" tour. According to NHL.com, the truck houses the compressors, condensing tower, chillers, pumps -- everything you would find in an engine room at an NHL rink, and everything the league will need to produce ice for the third new Year's Day Winter Classic, which will pit the Blackhawks and defending champion Red Wings in this year's version at Wrigley Field. The truck's machinery, built by Cimco Refrigeration in Mobile, is scheduled to arrive in Chicago on Dec. 15. The 240 panels of aluminum flooring needed to build the main rink is being manufactured just outside Anaheim and will be delivered to Chicago by Dec. 12.
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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