{"id":1042,"date":"2008-01-29T08:24:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/winnipeg-has-the-longest-rink\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:24:22","slug":"winnipeg-has-the-longest-rink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/winnipeg-has-the-longest-rink\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg has the longest rink?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I saw the cover of Sunday’s Ottawa Sun I knew I had to write something about it.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, we just finished trashing Mexico’s longest skating conga line<\/a> here and now we have Winnipeg’s claim that they have the longest skating rink in the world<\/a> to contend with.<\/p>\n

Well it’s not even a real problem, since it turns out Winnipeg’s longest skating rink amounts to basically an icy path, and not really a rink at all.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s embarrassing for them, really.\u00c2\u00a0 We can relax since I sincerely doubt that many people will flock there to shuffle along Winnipeg’s\u00c2\u00a0“longest rink”. It is longer I suppose, but it’s only 10 feet wide, which if you have actually been on the Canal is laughable at best.\u00c2\u00a0 You would be constantly dodging people and getting tied up in traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 How many simultaneous\u00c2\u00a0hockey games can they play on it?\u00c2\u00a0 Not even one, while we could probably realistically manage 50 or more, with room to spare for beer gardens (which in hindsight is probably a bad idea, serving alcohol on an ice surface).\u00c2\u00a0 I would liken their “skating trail” to connecting to the Internet via dialup.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure you are technically skating, but it’s slow and definitely isn’t any fun.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg may have a longer rink, but as we all know more bandwidth is always\u00c2\u00a0better.\u00c2\u00a0 Anybody else agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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