Brent Saik laughs when asked how 40 players competing in a multi-day hockey game, to break the Guinness World Record for the longest game, are handling the bitter cold on an outdoor rink.

"It's been horrible," the event's founder told The Canadian Press. "We didn't expect to dress for cold ... for the entire time."

Pucks shatter as players pass them along the boards. Skate blades are breaking in half. Pieces of masks are falling off as glue lets go and goalie pads are cracking in the cold.

Temperatures have dropped to between -40 C and -55 C with the wind chill at times this week and, although it's supposed to warm up slightly on the weekend, the cold snap isn't expected to lift until Monday.

That's the same day the game, meant to raise $1.5 million to fund cancer research at the University of Alberta, is to hit its 252-hour goal around 6 a.m. and break its own Guinness World Record.

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That's cold enough to freeze the brass off a bald monkey. I wonder why they chose an outdoor rink in the middle of winter in Edmonton.

That's cold enough to freeze the brass off a bald monkey. I wonder why they chose an outdoor rink in the middle of winter in Edmonton.

"We didn't expect to dress for cold ... for the entire time."
In Edmonton? Have they ever been there before?

queenoftheuniverse wrote:

"We didn't expect to dress for cold ... for the entire time."
In Edmonton? Have they ever been there before?

It's all relative. They may have just been expecting the usual 20-30 below.

Edmonton - in fact all of Alberta - is funny. This is chinook season were it can be -20 F one day and then +70 the next wiht the snow and ice melting like crazy. Half of my surprise at them choosing an outdoor rink is that, if a chinook blew in, they could be skating on mud.