Munich/Gelsenkirchen – 15 December 2008 - The deal is done: the 2010 IIHF World Championship comes up with an event that has never been taking place in Ice Hockey before. The opening game of the World Championship on May 7th, 2010 will be organized in the Veltins-Arena of Gelsenkirchen, home of the football (soccer) Bundesliga club of FC Schalke 04. The stadium will be transferred to a giant Ice Hockey arena with an overall capacity to be enhanced to 75.976 places. A full stadium would represent a new spectator world record for Ice Hockey games, something, which the organizing committee is clearly aiming for. "At the opening game of the 2001 IIHF World Championship we had to leave far too many of the almost 80.000 ticket requests unfulfilled. The Veltins-Arena with its unique technical infrastructure now offers the chance to respond to the expected tremendous interest of the fans", explains Uwe Harnos (48), President of the Organizing Committee, one of the main reasons for...