WARROAD, Minn. — Skating daily on the ice of the Warroad River has not been a new experience for Frank Krahn. That's because his playing career with the Warroad High Warriors predated the arrival of this village's first artificial ice sheet in 1975.
"The river would have good ice before they could get the ice sheet frozen inside the arena,'' Krahn said. "We usually would have our first couple of weeks of practice on the river rink.''
Warroad Memorial Arena opened in 1949 and for a quarter-century, ice was made by opening the doors to the cold winds coming in from Canada. It wasn't replaced as the home to the Warriors until the thoroughly modern Gardens Arena opened in 1993. The Gardens has an adjacent rink called the Olympic Arena.
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