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sun causes brief delay in painting ice  Friday, 12.27.2013 /
3:11 PM  By Corey Masisak - NHL.com Staff Writer / 2014
Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic blog  ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- NHL
Facilities Operations Manager Dan Craig and his crew of rink
builders were all set to paint the ice white at Michigan Stadium
on Friday morning. Then the elements got in the way.
Specifically, the sun came out from behind the clouds and what
was expected to be a balmy, gray day on the University of
Michigan campus became a pleasant, sunny winter one instead.
While that might have great for the residents of this college
town, it delayed Craig's crew by a few hours.  "We cleaned the
ice, burned it a couple of times, put in our stabilizing fabric
that we do in front of the machine and the goal creases, and
then the sun popped out," Craig said. "We'd be painted by now if
the sun hadn't come out, but I'm not going to fight Mother
Nature. We're just going to wait for it to go