To add on: if you’re shooting hockey, metering is tricky with the ice. You will want to meter the ice to -0- then raise it about 2/3 to 1 stop. So if you meter it at iso 1600, f/2.8, 1/1600, you’d want to click up twice on iso, or down twice on shutter, or one of each.
Richmond Pro Lab. Look for their competition prints. They don’t do framing above 8x10 (which comes in a 10x13 frame), but framing isn’t the hard part. The detail of the print is density/color managed for competition standards and they will mount it on 3/16 gatorfoam board.
If you don’t mind hitting the images in post, you can set the iso to the highest you’re comfortable with, aperture wide open, and then go to the shutter speed you can get, and shoot 1-1 1/3 stop under. Shooting raw, you can recover that in post. I prefer this method over relying on iso noise reduction. I’ve seen some to -2 but it’s a matter of how muddy you’re willing to shoot it.
I don’t know if this was a one time event and my suggestion is too little too late, but you could take multiple frames using a tripod, people will be in and out of the frames, which is fine. Then you load all the images into photoshop as layers, use the align layers tool, then use the median function for blending.
That goes pixel by pixel and compares that to the other values in the other layers, and chooses the pixel value that is the median. That should leave the final image to consist of only the pixels that are supposed to be there.
There’s a lot of examples but here is one quick one — https://fotographee.com/remove-people-images/