Changeover Crew - Arena Operations
About the job
- A high school diploma or GED is required.
- Ability to understand and follow instructions from supervisors and arena management.
- Availability to work nights, overnights, weekends, and holidays.
- Ability to climb, crawl, kneel, squat, bend, and extend arms or legs fully.
- Ability to lift up to 65 pounds.
- Ability to communicate clearly through talking and hearing at normal speaking levels.
- Convert the arena between professional hockey and large-scale concert or event configurations.
- Set up seating arrangements and supporting furniture for concerts, hockey games, dinners, parties, and banquets.
- Set up signage, banners, and other conversion elements between events or games.
- Install, repair, and remove arena parts and seating.
- Move furniture, boxes, equipment, materials, and other items in response to requests from management, vendors, guests, and event or team representatives.
- Make deliveries to the IceDen and War Memorial as needed.
- Set up and break down barricades, tables, chairs, risers, and stages around the arena.
- Distribute Panthers giveaways to each arena entrance.
- Build and disassemble risers and stages for concerts and other events.
- Store, retrieve, and rearrange items in storage areas for all departments.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Work in an arena environment with high noise levels, heavy crowd traffic, variable temperatures, bright or dark lighting, occasional flashing lights, and pyrotechnics.
- Stand and walk for prolonged periods, including moving between work sites over long distances.
- Balance on narrow, slippery, or moving surfaces.
- Stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, and grasping objects.
- Perform repetitive motion with the wrists, hands, and fingers.
- Ability to operate a forklift and warehouse equipment.
About the company
The NHL operates a professional ice hockey league with 32 teams in North America and runs the Future Goals program to promote STEM education for K-12 students. Future Goals offers hockey-themed STEM curricula and classroom and virtual resources for teachers, parents, and students. It stands out by combining a major sports league’s brand with an education initiative, supported by the NHLPA and a broad fan base, using real hockey content and partnerships. The goal is to spark interest in STEM and hockey among young people by providing accessible, hockey-themed learning experiences in schools and communities.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$38.1M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1972
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- CME-linked hockey futures indexes create new data monetization by 2026-27.
- Tennessee State's first HBCU hockey program expands grassroots pipeline and brand relevance.
- FanDuel network collapse lets NHL own production quality, margins, and distribution economics directly.
What critics are saying
- Main Street Sports collapsed in 2026, exposing NHL local media dependence to partner failures.
- Victory+ missed payments triggered possible Ducks and Stars broadcast changes, signaling unstable rights economics.
- New CBA ends deferred salaries and playoff cap loopholes, narrowing roster-building flexibility through 2030.
What makes National Hockey League unique
- NHL Productions now centralizes local broadcasts for four teams starting September 2026.
- The 2026-27 schedule expands to 84 games, creating more inventory and rivalries.
- Honeywell partnership modernizes arenas with AI-enabled building automation across North America.
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FutureSports and the NHL have announced an exclusive partnership to create broad-based performance indexes for hockey. The indexes will use official real-time NHL statistics to measure team and player performance throughout games. CME Group will list monthly and quarterly cash-settled futures contracts based on these benchmarks, pending regulatory review, in time for the 2026-2027 season. The contracts aim to provide hedging vehicles and investment opportunities for institutions, asset managers, trading firms, and individual investors. Potential users include third-party vendors, sponsors, insurers, and sports apparel manufacturers. The indexes follow rules-based methodologies derived from official NHL statistics. Chicago-based FutureSports, launched in 2026 after development beginning in 2022, administers the indexes independently with formal governance procedures.
The NHL will produce and distribute local games for the Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Minnesota Wild, and St Louis Blues when the season begins in late September. The move follows the closure of Main Street Sports, which operated 15 regional channels under the FanDuel Sports Network brand. NHL Productions plans to enhance broadcast quality with additional cameras, improved replay capabilities, and graphics comparable to national network broadcasts. Local announcers will remain unchanged. Three other teams previously on FanDuel Sports Network have secured alternative arrangements. The Anaheim Ducks and Dallas Stars may join the NHL-produced broadcasts after Victory+ streaming service missed rights payments. Major League Baseball began similar centralised production in 2023 and now covers 15 teams. The NBA plans a centralised streaming hub for the 2027-28 season.
The Nashville Predators have hired Chris MacFarland from the Colorado Avalanche as their president of hockey operations and general manager. MacFarland replaces Barry Trotz, who will move into an advisory role after announcing his retirement from the GM position earlier this season. MacFarland, 56, spent 11 seasons with the Avalanche, including four as general manager. Under his leadership, Colorado posted the NHL's best record this season before being eliminated in the Western Conference Final. He is a finalist for general manager of the year. Nashville has missed the playoffs three of the past four seasons. Joe Sakic will serve as the Avalanche's interim GM for the foreseeable future.
Honeywell International has entered a multi-year global partnership with the National Hockey League, becoming the league's official building automation and energy management partner. The deal aims to modernise arenas, practice facilities and community rinks with AI-enabled, integrated building systems. The partnership extends Honeywell's building automation footprint into sports venues and hockey communities across North America. However, analysts suggest the NHL deal serves primarily as a proof point for Honeywell's pivot towards higher-value, software-heavy automation and energy management, rather than altering the company's investment narrative. Honeywell's near-term focus remains on executing its planned breakup into three public companies, including an aerospace spin-off and divestitures of productivity solutions and warehouse divisions. The company projects $44.8 billion in revenue by 2029, requiring 5.9% annual growth.
The NHL invited Glice to showcase a 150 m² synthetic ice rink at the 2026 SportsInnovation conference in Düsseldorf, allowing visitors to test the company's StellarGlide technology firsthand. Glice's ice panels are manufactured in German plastic polymer mills that serve aerospace and robotics industries. Laboratory testing by the Fraunhofer Institute showed the surface achieved friction levels equivalent to real ice at lower skating speeds. Omar Mitchell, NHL vice president of innovation and growth strategy, said the activation demonstrates how material-science companies can shape hockey's future by lowering barriers to play through flexible, location-independent installations. The showcase highlighted how synthetic ice can support experiential activations and broaden access to skating experiences in new settings.