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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.
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.
“What it does, if you look at a facility that’s as busy as this one is, any time you plop an NHL team in, there’s always schedule interruptions that happen that maybe you don’t get to see,” Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff said Monday. “Certainly when you add two hockey teams, there’s even more.
“It will allow a rink that serves a community as well as this one does, to go back to operating like it can at full capacity, to house more of the community initiatives, be it regular recreational hockey or the Jets Hockey Academy.”
The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Academy, which will grow to nearly 700 students this season, is a big benefactor of the expansion.
The academy will get its own offices and storage space in the addition, allowing the program to expand even further in the future.
While the expansion is almost entirely good news for the long term, the coming season is going to have it challenges.
One of the biggest is going to be for the MJHL’s Winnipeg Blues, who play their home games at the Iceplex. They have lost their permanent dressing room, which is being taken over by the AHL’s Manitoba 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
— Kevin Cheveldayoff
The Blues will be required to use temporary space for their operation this year — a certain inconvenience — and won’t have a permanent dressing room in the Iceplex for the 2015-16 season, but it could work out well in the long-term.
When the Moose move with the Jets into the new space being created, it should free up this year’s Moose quarters, which are being upgraded for a pro team, for the Blues to return to.
— Tim Campbell
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