The Vancouver Canucks won’t be in the Stanley Cup Final. But a little bit of Vancouver ice will be.
In an attempt to rally support from across Canada for the Edmonton Oilers as they head into the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers, Rogers aimed to make Rogers Place not just the Oilers’ home ice, but Canada’s home ice.
They went to six hometown rinks of Oilers players, where they honed their skills long before making it to the NHL, to gather ice from those rinks to take to Edmonton to incorporate into the ice at Rogers Place, calling the initiative “This is our ice.”
Three of the Oilers’ skaters are from Metro Vancouver. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins played his youth hockey at the Burnaby Winter Club,…