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In the end, the conversation went from the total triumph of Edmonton’s spectacular success story in playing host to Grey Cup 106 to the appallingly atrocious slippery surface of the Commonwealth Stadium turf.

Known for the great ice surface at National Hockey League games and for the perfectly pebbled ice for the biggest curling events in history, the freeze frames from the Edmonton 2018 Grey Cup took the sheen off the biggest annual sports event in Canada.

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There have been worse. This wasn’t the abomination of the Ice Bowl in Montreal, also known as The Staples Game, and it compared to the near-blizzard snow conditions of Hamilton in 1996 and the 105th Grey Cup last year in Ottawa, minus the snow globe effect.

But the ice follies created on the 110-yard sheet of artificial turf soiled and spoiled an otherwise perfect production.

It was a shame, really.

The old show-business term ‘It’s how you leave ‘em’ left a definite blemish on the otherwise near-perfect Edmonton production in the minds of many.