MIDDLETON, Wis. -- Inside a dark ice rink on a warm Saturday morning in August, Ryan Suter is on all fours ripping out sections of rubber glued to the concrete.
Since returning home in May after the Minnesota Wild ended their season with another playoff loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, Suter has had his eye on the rubber that wraps around the ice rink in this Madison suburb.
The rubber was too dirty, old and tattered, he thought, and that just won't do now that the rink carries the name of Ryan's late father, Bob.