Climate Pledge Arena preps for Kraken playoffs | FOX 13 Seattle

next game there. And when the news that the Kraken made the playoffs broke, at least one event had to be rescheduled to make way for the teams to take the icebox or teams. Jennifer Dowling is going beyond the headlines tonight with a look at what it takes to get ready for an extended hockey. Season. Jennifer Good evening. Well it involves calling in hundreds of employees in order to staff those events and in this case rescheduling a storm game. But now that the dates have been set, the operations managers here say it’s smooth sailing. Take on

the Dallas Stars this Sunday at 6 30, a massive team of workers are being called in to provide services for the fans. Typical hockey game will have over 1000 employees in the building from concessions right down to housekeeping operations. Security Guest services parking, the senior vice president of operations, Tom Conroy, says managers had already been prepping their teams for this possibility. All of the staff leaders or the managers of the departments they knew when the potential game days could be so while the staff were kind of put on alert, saying, be aware you might only

have 96 or 72 hours to be made aware of when the next game was going to be, Please make yourself available, while Game three was relatively easy to had to be done for Game four. The storm was scheduled to

play the Phoenix Mercury Tuesday. May 9th On the same day, the Kraken were scheduled to take the ice storm are great partners. We’re happy to have them. We’re super lucky that two great tenants, the arena tweeted out A thank you to the Seattle storm for being such a great partners and rescheduling the storm game was going

to be Tuesday is now being moved onto the Monday so we get Cracking, storm cracking. It’s going to be a great week. As for Sunday, the climate pledge team advised that fans arrived early as there will be a number of activities to make it. A memorable game will be outdoor activations . There’ll be a beer garden . There’s interactive activities for kids. There’s going to be a DJ. It’s gonna be a great place to be so everyone should be down here early in the afternoon. And the vice president of marketing says that both games are

sold out and that employees are prepped and ready for those games Reporting live in Seattle. Jennifer Dowling Fox 13 News