...as for the puck, the dimensions are correct unless you start playing with the puck. Then the dimensions start to fall apart.
Interestingly enough, when you LT move with the modded puck, it won't loose the shape. It must happen probably when the puck starts to wobble.
It does look beautiful tho, with the correct size

The game might be hard programmed to only 3D the first row, unless there's some instance of more than that becoming 3D. As you might expect, it takes one crowd asset at a time and applies it to each spot it wants it to populate. The 3D crowd may not have the math to select other row locations. I would have to try to hijack the 2D math population code, but that's a very long shot.
At least I think this works.
$First Row 3D crowd
c286ae00 00000001
60000000 00000000
Nice job

It does look little better for sure!
I see it actually depends on the arena. In some like Bell Centre in Montreal, there are 3 rows, in Boston 1 row and for example in United Centre in Chicago or Madison Square Garden there is no 3d crowd at all.
I do believe that our problem is that there is some ugly LOD on the arenas as a whole. When I work on the arena textures I see some of them don't fit on the models correctly. There are some textures that missing in the arena completely, but they are dumped. Many of the objects in the arena are forced to be in 2d and I know from the Xbox version that these objects are modeled in 3d.
Also when I look at the size of the ISO, it is around 4.6 GB, which is not very different from the full-featured Xbox 360 version. The difference might be just the compressed audio and textures, but everything else seems to be on the disc in my opinion.
One thing I know for sure tho, if not you, none can solve this puzzle
I understand it must be extremely difficult to find "the right one" with so many things going on in the regular game.
How do I easily get into the Bell Centre Arena?
Just pick team Montreal Canadiens. That's their home ice

In whatever mode...
Just playing with the codes, it is absolute blast!
The game.has some much potential, it's not even funny Lol
$First rows 3D crowd More
c286ae00 00000001
60000000 00000000
c286b220 00000001
60000000 00000000
This code makes sure there are no empty front sections, instead it's 3D.
awesome!
So should use just this, instead of the 1st one, or both together?
I combined them, so just use that second one.
little of topic, but some of the new codes (from this weekend) keeps crashing the game after few minutes, probably some float overlapping?