 Because it was normally a basketball arena several changes to the floor and the seating configurations had to be made.In order to create an Olympic sized ice rink the lower levels of seating had to be retracted, making the first level of spectator seating several feet higher than the skater's heads, a problem coined "The Pit".The Utah Jazz played their last home game on February 2, 2002, giving organizers less than a week to transform the arena in time for the games.