NO extra ice is being added in the upcoming $7.5-million expansion of the four-sheet MTS Iceplex, but some of the benefits of the project will extend beyond the NHL's Jets and the AHL's Moose.
'It will allow a rink that serves a community as well as this one does here, to go back to operating like it can at full capacity, to house more of the community initiatives
By moving into their own dressing, training and treatment areas to be housed in the 21,000-square-foot expansion, dressing rooms and team space in the existing part of the Iceplex will be freed up so the facility can run at closer to capacity.