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Ice time a hot commodity.

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Byline: Chris Hansen The Register-Guard

Without provocation, and before she could even sit down at her desk, Lane Event Center Ice Center manager Cindy Jensen rattled off a handful of reasons why hockey, she joked, is the "bane of my existence."

"It's hard on the building, it's hard on my staff, it's hard on the ice and everyone wants to play at 7 p.m., so the scheduling is brutal," she said as she held up a weekly schedule printout, which looked like a freshly opened box of crayons, with each hourly square of each columned day filled in with a different color to indicate who had booked ice time.

"But," Jensen said with a smile as she finally sat down, "it is really good to have hockey. It brings recognition to the ice center, and it brings more people into the building."

Now, more than ever before, in fact.

The hockey scene in Eugene, and ice skating in general, has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, and with the start of the Winter Olympics 11 days away and the cyclical boost it usually gives winter sports, officials expect that growth to continue.

And with it, Jensen's ice...

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