Quote from: andyw2100 on November 16, 2025, 10:00:21 AMI'm wondering why there needs to be any vinyl that can cause problems if the ice winds up too thin. Why not just go old school and just use paint or dye or whatever it is that used to be used before the vinyl?1) Vinyl keeps its shape. Especially for sponsorship and league promos, paint would be much more difficult to have "correct" - you'd need someone to painstakingly take the time to paint each item 100% accurately. While it's already cold and icy. And if the ice melts, the paint under it might go as well. Vinyl is much less accident-prone and much more reusable. Now, for example, they might have to rip up the ice (because those black spots are gnarly too), but since it's all vinyl, they just need a few "grunts" to take the vinyl stuff off and put it back on when they fill the ice to an appropriate level. Vs if it was paint, where you'd need a painter to spend hours repainting the Cayuga Health logo.
The other thing I was wondering last night was if they thought there was a decent chance that redoing the ice (presumably without scraping) was going to help, when they realized it hadn't helped enough, why not just do that again, and again if necessary? For a long time it looked like they may just throw up their hands and not continue.
2) I think the refs really wanted to call it. It definitely felt like they were going to for a while there. But the players and the coaches did not agree to do so, and I assume the ECAC commissioner told the refs they can't call off the game if the players/coaches didn't agree. Interestingly, a bunch of guys went over that exact spot and none of 'em had any issues.
