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Reykjavik Ravens

Iceland is geologically young and mythologically ancient. The Ravens play with the authority of something that has always been here. Their arena steams. The Almighty Ice and the volcanic ground reached an agreement.

  • City: Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Arena: The Steam Fields
  • Capacity: 11,400
  • Colors: #00F0FF / #1B1B2C
  • Conference: La Conférence du Verglas
  • Joined: Season 3 expansion

The ground beneath The Steam Fields returns what the game takes. The Ravens play the third period as fresh as the first. Visitors do not: they wear down with every period.

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The Steam Fields sit on ground that is geologically young and, by the assessment team’s account, opinionated. Under the Geothermal designation, the home team’s stamina does not degrade: the Ravens play the third period as fresh as the first, because the ground beneath them returns what the game takes. The ice is of the verglas form—clear, hard, grainless. The arena steams. The Almighty Ice and the volcanic rock beneath it appear to have reached an accommodation Le Council was not consulted on and does not fully understand. The Ravens play as though they have always been here, and on this ground, Le Council observes, always is a shorter word than it is elsewhere.

A long low hall of black basalt and pale timber, half-sunk into a plain of steaming ground, with vents in the floor of the concourse that are original to the site rather than to the building. Steam rises through them continuously and collects under the roof, where a run of narrow clerestory windows lets it out in a slow white ribbon visible from the road. The 11,400 seats are wooden and warm to the touch at every hour. The Almighty Ice surface is clear enough to read the rock beneath it, and the rock beneath it is not still—the assessment team’s instruments recorded movement at depth throughout the deployment and recorded no movement at the surface. Players describe the building as restful. Visiting players describe it as restful for the first period.

  • Trade. Received Teva Tehei (LW) from Tahiti Tsunami for the third line. Sent Ragnar Stefánsson (LW) the other way, round one.
  • Trade. Received Rico Grazette (D) from Barbados Barracudas for the second defence pair. Sent Aldís Einarsdóttir (D) the other way, round one.
  • Trade. Received Florencia Ramos (D) from Ushuaia Undertow for the second defence pair. Sent Hrafn Pálsson (D) the other way, round two.

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