Photo credit: Peter Haley, The News Tribune

The Sprinker Ice Rink in Spanaway reopened today after an eight month, $6 million renovation.  The News Tribune has the full story. I post this here at OlySports.com because Sprinker is the closest sheet of ice to Olympia and gets a lot of action from Olympia area residents.

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for Olympia to have an ice rink. I don’t expect anybody to open one anytime soon, I don’t see enough demand to make it worth the price for a private enterprise. But if it were part of a larger development, perhaps. Olympia could really use a convention center, combine that with a hockey arena – Olympia would be a perfect fit for the junior North American Hockey League – and there you go. It’s probably a pipe dream in this economy, but what the heck,  it’s always good to dream.