The rink was placed where the "Forum Shops" is now. The thing I remember wasn’t so much the heat or the blue lines made of fabric, (which I didn’t know before seeing your posted video), but it taking place during Cicada season.
"The only problem was the thing with the grasshoppers, or whatever they were," Gretzky said afterward. "They kept coming on the ice. It got pretty bad toward the end.”
The game was twice delayed by grasshoppers, which were attracted first to the lights, then to the brightly lit skating surface. When the grasshoppers took the ice, they literally froze to death, and centurions with shovels then had to sweep them away.