Blogs Nov 8, 2011 at 12:57 pm

Ice Rink Coming to Capitol Hill's Cal Anderson Park

Cienna Madrid
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Will ice hockey be banned? Something tells me alot of people who give this a try, only to sit and wait for a pickup game to end. If ice hockey were actually popular in Seattle, our minor league team (Thunder Birds) would have never left.
Kinison on November 8, 2011 at 1:07 PM Report this
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Hunters Capital! Everyone's favorite GOP-donating, Stranger Genius Awards-sponsoring, Sorrento-owning, Broadway Apartments-building, lumpy tiny Jimi Hendrix sculpture-commissioning, Elliott Bay Books and Poquitos-landlording, Coho Building live/work artists-evicting holding company! Well, bless Mr. Malone and all who sail in her.
gloomy gus on November 8, 2011 at 1:12 PM Report this
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you spelled Capitol wrong in 'capital hill blog'
sonder on November 8, 2011 at 1:13 PM Report this
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Ice Polo!!
merry on November 8, 2011 at 1:15 PM Report this
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What an unexpected developement. I hope it works out. What about curling?
Vince on November 8, 2011 at 1:17 PM Report this
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Isn't that already happening for free? http://bit.ly/ic3rink
piojin on November 8, 2011 at 1:17 PM Report this
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What a coincidence. I happen to have a weekend free in December. I guess I know how I'm spending it: standing in line to go around in circles with strangers.
MacCrocodile on November 8, 2011 at 1:21 PM Report this
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As Jill Cronauer is on the board of the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce and Hunter's Capital has spoken to the surrounding business owners - I think that they'll be just fine with it... In fact, they're pretty happy...
M. Wells on November 8, 2011 at 1:21 PM Report this
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How can I organize a pick up game? Damn, wonder if I could even get out there for stick and puck? Does anyone know yet?
orange&black on November 8, 2011 at 1:27 PM Report this
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@1 The T-Birds moved to Kent Station because they had a new rink built there. They're still the Seattle Thunderbirds. We also have a team in Everett (the Silvertips) that regularly plays to packed houses at the Comcast Arena.

Other ice rinks in the area do not allow hockey games to take place during public skating time. I can't imagine this will be any different.

I know you have this weird bias against the game because you went to see the T-Birds once and some stupid kid yelled "faggot", but that is some weak-ass trolling, Kinison.
Hernandez on November 8, 2011 at 1:28 PM Report this
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@2: He's also really, really hot. Clooney-hot.
karion on November 8, 2011 at 1:31 PM Report this
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Dodgeball on Ice!

Seriously though, curling would be great. The Alberta-raised bf would love it!
Subdued Excitement on November 8, 2011 at 1:34 PM Report this
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Michael-Douglas-hot, maybe, @11.
rob! on November 8, 2011 at 1:37 PM Report this
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Hockey? Curling? Not happening. It's for public skating.
bigyaz on November 8, 2011 at 1:42 PM Report this
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@11 ha! (You need to update the prescription for your spectacles, dear.)

Malone's still got a rental listing up for one of his spare mansions, this one next to St. Marks - just $15,000 a month:
http://www.ewingandclark.com/properties/…
gloomy gus on November 8, 2011 at 1:44 PM Report this
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@13 - I may have overstated. I just find him startlingly sexy.
karion on November 8, 2011 at 1:46 PM Report this
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Hockey could probably happen if you make it happen. Not by barging on and taking out some little kid with a slapshot, but by lobbying the organizers of this rink now to set aside a night or afternoon here and there for hockey, like say Tuesday night 5pm til closing for pickup games.
SPG on November 8, 2011 at 1:48 PM Report this
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An average of 40 adults each hour is needed to break even...does that seem like it might be a bit optimistic...and maybe a bit crowded? (10ft x10ft per skater?) Hopefully not.
G g on November 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM Report this
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@ I sure hope so. It would suck to have something so groovy in the neighborhood taken over by hockey. Or curling (although curling is very cool). or, as someone mentioned, ice dodgeball.
genevieve on November 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM Report this
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@11, 13, 15, 16 - You're probably thinking of Michael Oaksmith rather than Michael Malone.
MacCrocodile on November 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM Report this
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and seriously? How can someone work at the Stranger and not know how to spell CapitOl Hill?
genevieve on November 8, 2011 at 1:52 PM Report this
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They should serve beer. Otherwise it's gonna lose money.
DOUG. on November 8, 2011 at 1:52 PM Report this
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@ 1, playing in Kent is not "leaving."
Matt from Denver on November 8, 2011 at 1:54 PM Report this
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@20 - you're just going to have to trust me on this. You can't see it in pictures, but the man is sexy as all get out. He just is. I can't explain it, but he has that elusive somethingsomething that makes a person hot.
karion on November 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM Report this
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@24 - Money?
MacCrocodile on November 8, 2011 at 1:58 PM Report this
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@20, I was sure you were right - I'd never heard of Oaksmith but he has those Hollywood-bright teeth. Now @24 says no, she meant Malone, the one who looks like Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the one who likes giving money to the Reicherts and Bush-Cheneys and Cathy McMorris Rodgers-es. Ah well.
gloomy gus on November 8, 2011 at 2:04 PM Report this
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@18, they're also getting support from Sound Transit and SKANSKA and a few local businesses including Elliott Bay and Blick.
http://capitolhillseattle.com/2011/11/08…

And you can rent the rink for your private use -- 2 hours runs $2k :)

But you can't play basketball -- rink will take over the Cal Anderson court for a couple weeks.
jseattle on November 8, 2011 at 2:10 PM Report this
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Hockey on a 50' x 80' rink? Fergit it. That's < 1/4 of an NHL sized rink.
mollman on November 8, 2011 at 2:15 PM Report this
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next let's put in a ferris wheel!!! wheeee!!!!!!!!!
kylembelltown on November 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM Report this
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Cool!
Gurldoggie on November 8, 2011 at 3:33 PM Report this
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@29, yeah, way too small, but it's ice in my neighborhood! Maybe just stick and puck for an hour or so...?
orange&black on November 8, 2011 at 3:44 PM Report this
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it's not real ice btw
taint on November 8, 2011 at 4:34 PM Report this
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@32 if it's that fakey plastic surface, then pffffttttttt. I ain't skatin on it.
SPG on November 8, 2011 at 5:26 PM Report this
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Capitol Hill Ice Rink will be offering FREE skating today from 11am to 3pm for anyone who wants to come down and give it a whirl! For more information about the rink visit http://www.capitolhillicerink.com/.
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