Anytime I would attend a hockey game, I noticed many youngsters in the crowd were fascinated by the Zamboni machine and thought it would be the coolest thing in the world to someday be the Zamboni driver.  For those of you not hockey aficionados, the Zamboni machine lays the ice on the skating rink before warmups, before the game, during period breaks and before any overtime period(s).

Bottom line, you do not have the ice on which to skate and play a hockey game without the ice laid down on the rink by the Zamboni machine.

The Indy Fuel scheduled an unusual starting time for a game Tuesday, 10:30am.  I cover as many Fuel games as possible, but had a news event to cover Tuesday and couldn’t make it.  Turns out, there was no game Tuesday after all.

Seems there was a Zamboni breakdown.  As I just wrote, no Zamboni, no ice on the rink and no hockey game.  The statement from the Fuel only says the game was postponed due to “a mechanical issue with the Zamboni.”

The game with the Bloomington (IL) Bison will be rescheduled at a later date.  The Tuesday game was to have been Education Day.  “School administrators who purchased tickets on behalf of their school group will be contacted directly with further instruction,” per the Fuel statement  Those buying tickets through Ticketmaster can be refunded directly through Ticketmaster.