Installing and painting the ice at Little Caesars Arena

Watch as the team behind the scenes at Little Caesars Arena preps the ice for a new season of Red Wings hockey.

[@tmoore4075]

Amazing so much of that is painted by hand, sure they have the outlines but still amazes me.

[@hockeytownluv2012]

As a painter I found this very satisfying. LGRW

[@Baby_boodle]

I enjoyed watching this so gosh darn much!!

[@robjohnson5872]

Through good teams and bad, there's always been the Winged Wheel. GLORY TO THE WINGED WHEEL!

[@maciejct2508]

Fun to watch. Love it. Specially wing wheel... precision work.

[@DR.DisInfect]

Awesome job fellas let's get it done this year

[@thenickfoxx]

You know hockey season is upon us when they get the rink good and ready for the upcoming season. So excited. 1:21 I don't think people realize how impressive that is with a 3 inch brush. Cutting ability is spot on here. Kudos to whoever that is. P.S. We want "HOCKEYTOWN" back at center ice!

[@jeremydoiron3193]

Best team out there!

[@xJabro]

wow, the time and effort, and all done by hand, much respect to the ice/paint crew of every arena

[@danglesnipecelly13]

Greatest logo ever!!

[@Rebellgentleman]

I used to match colors for a living. I did this matching for many, many companies including nearly all automotive companies (foreign and domestic), Boeing, Harley Davidson, Indy 500 cars, and matched all the colors for the rides at Disney. As far as sports venues go, I have matched the blue for the U.S. open tennis courts and had done some work for major league baseball helmets. I do know that bright, chromatic, reds can be hard to match and was curious as to who supplied them with the paint for the Wings' logo......because in 35 years of color matching, I never once did anything for a hockey team. I had no idea a hockey rink was so labor intensive with their setup.

[@C1DIP]

How did you find yourself doing that? I’m 21 and I work at Home Depot as the full time “paint man” I match peoples colors, mix their paint. Where would be the next step?

[@yakkensteinfishing]

That is pretty awesome! Never seen that before. Very interesting 👌

[@ThatFigureSkaterZamboniGirl]

This was awesome. Last month I actually hand brushed the red for our rink, and I kind of wish our centre logo was a stencil and brushed instead of a decal although it’s a lot more work. 😊 It’s just a little bit nicer looking even with the ice layers over it. It was my first time painting the ice since I just began as a Zamboni driver last fall, but I have a steady hand from many house painting endeavours. 😁

[@rock1724]

The amount of peace and serenity that gave me was awesome

[@benb1950]

That was ace. Thanks for the upload

[@metuberob]

props to the guys .... so much work to get it look just right

[@Ey3x4ANxEye]

Thank you maintenance crew 🔥🔥🔥

[@kyleacker3704]

Great job guys. I paint everyday. This was fun to watch!

[@MSU-DetroitFan]

Love The fact y'all can get it that perfect especially on days when both the Red Wings and Pistons have home games and you guys can get it that clean and efficient

[@scooter2161]

They don’t redo the ice every time during the season. They build the basketball court on top of the ice.

[@garylukonen8973]

Satisfaction right their so beautiful! Can’t wait for this year!

[@Mr.Martini549]

Oh, just casually painting the most beautiful logo in all of professional sports!!! 2:06

[@AustinWestbro]

The painters did great but so did the foley artist 😉

[@tmoney9539]

Awesome stuff

[@kotakpuri]

The best logo and jersey in all sports!!!

[@fiver-on-yt0642]

This seems so fun

[@derricklafrance9440]

Stencils but there is some art to it.

[@KDill29]

Watched the short. Came to see them finish the logo😂

[@Nall412]

Absolutely gorgeous! Best Logo hands down in all of sports. Don’t care what anyone says

[@patrickninocn2205]

Tip: spray your ice before painting it will be a lot smoother to stroke the brush without the frost layer.

[@elhijodelchupacabra]

Pure Art Go wings !

[@gunnarhockey777]

LETS GO REDWINGS 🐙

[@Matthew456E]

It needs the hockeytown in the middle

[@cubro64]

Are you guys the only NHL team with hand painted logos? I know most places/ teams use vinyl decals. This is old school I love it.

[@cordaryl2481]

And do these guys get rings for championship seasons? Cause this is truly amazing! Good shit

[@blackcat4859]

So the ice floor is actually only a very thin line of ice from that water that they spray on in the beginning?

[@daved1535]

How often do they lay and paint the ice? I know during the season they put a cover over the ice and lay the basketball court over it if it's an arena with hockey and basketball

[@michaellaughlin8457]

💪LGRW 💪🤗👍

[@shadowdog200]

If there could be a 45min or longer version of this thatd be great.

[@patrickfurlong9169]

It looked like they painted over the floor with the white instead of the first layer of ice.

[@garyr4211]

So they remove all the paint from the year before and start from scratch again?

[@Nall412]

Yup

[@OfficialRedWings]

the ice comes out after the season and is reinstalled a few months later.

[@great456789]

How often do they have to paint the ice?

[@elhijodelchupacabra]

Good question My guess is just once a year, before beginning of the season.

[@dpeters9897]

Miss the Joe

[@thewaterwarrior9817]

Hockey ASMR

[@helpthehurtlondon]

Soon with AI I fear this will all be done by robots

[@TheAndrewbigboss]

There’s no way they do this in between every basketball and hockey game

[@EmailBacon]

They don’t lmao. They keep it painted underneath the basketball rink. They just take the basketball rink down and set up the boards

[@taylerthompson7559]

Accidental asmr

[@TheAndrewbigboss]

Why don’t they just get two rinks one for pistons and one for red wings

[@EmailBacon]

Millions of dollars

[@gu4225]

Pizza pizza.

[@GlassOfWhiteMilk]

This has got to be irritating to due with the NBA season also going on and having this work be taken down to create the court😭

[@itsurboidonnie]

LGRW.

[@davect01]

No fun music over top? Crazy that all this is handpainted with household paintbrushes

[@Nall412]

Yea pretty cool eh

[@Clownconspirator]

for the love of god, please get a new goal horn I'm begging you