Team Canada has taken home the gold in ice hockey at three of the last six Winter Olympics, and one of its coaches is raising alarm in the leadup to the 2026 games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Canada assistant coach Pete DeBoer said during a Wednesday, December 3 appearance on SportsNet’s Real Kyper & Bourne radio show that the rink that the 2026 games plans to use is smaller than NHL standards.

“The ice surface, it looks like it’s going to be smaller than NHL rink standard by probably three or four feet,” he said. “I don’t understand how that happened.”

DeBoer, 57, added, “I don’t believe it’s a huge difference. But I believe there is a difference, and it’s on the smaller, not the bigger side.”

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