They shoot; they scooore... Stellar helps save NHL community ice rink from meltdown despite Texas heat wave
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n early June, the Children’s Health StarCenter, a community ice rink affiliated with the NHL's Dallas Stars, was anticipating a weekend full of events when the facility discovered a sudden malfunction to its refrigera-
tion system—a failed cooling tower. With a triple-digit heat wave spreading across Texas, the ice on the Health StarCenter rink would begin to melt in only a matter of hours and the weekend’s events would be in jeopardy.
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Just before midnight on Wednesday, June 9, StarCenter personnel realized the problem. Because melting ice would threaten the scheduled youth and adult hockey games, the ice rink staff turned to their refrigeration contractor, Stellar, for a solution. The rink called the company's after-hours service line and from that moment, Stellar took immediate action, which triggered
Photography courtesy of the City of Mansfield (Texas)
By Jose Mergulhao
