Getting to drive the fancy machine that cleans the ice is a mark of honour in every local hockey barn across this great nation, and the elite few that are selected for the position are usually groomed like grasshoppers until they become the masters.
The drivers of these machines usually know their job inside and out, taking it with the same degree of intensity as cutting-edge brain surgery. They know their surface so well that they can describe every nook, cranny, corner, figure skating rut, and blood stain on the ice with their eyes closed. These people were born to run the rink, and to resurface the ice.
Which is why this clip were about to show you has us so completely shook.
Watch and be afraid. This resurfacer has a mind of its own.
We’re not entirely sure what happened here, but we know it absolutely was not supposed to.
We have come to the conclusion that this video started late, and that there must have been a driver who fell off somehow, and that’s where the trouble commenced.
But we also like the idea of a robo-resurfacer going rogue, so we’re going with that.
