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Training Drills For Your Backyard Rink
Training Drills For Your Backyard Rink
One of the secrets to many of the successes in the NHL lies in a player’s backyard growing up. Professional players got a huge advantage as kids if they had a rink, full size or miniature, by their house where…
Maine Pond Hockey Classic Reveals Trophy Photos
Maine Pond Hockey Classic Reveals Trophy Photos
The Stanley Cup. The Art Ross. The Prince of Wales. Hockey is full of famous trophies, each carrying with them an encyclopedia of history, memories, and stories. Now you can add another to the list – the championship trophies presented…
New England Youth Pond Hockey Jamboree – The Most Sought After Tournament in New England
New England Youth Pond Hockey Jamboree – The Most Sought After Tournament in New England
It all started with an idea. Richard Wood, Springfield College professor by day and hockey dad by night (and early weekend morning), was sitting with some friends at the Vermont Pond Hockey Classic when the group had an idea. Create…
Outdoor Hockey Holiday Gift Guide
Outdoor Hockey Holiday Gift Guide
The holiday season can be difficult. You have family staying at your place for far too long, a dozen fancy meals to cook, and a seemingly growing number of children to appease. You need to find the decorations, untangle the…
Maine Pond Hockey Classic Gets Bigger and Better For 2016

Maine Pond Hockey Classic Gets Bigger and Better For 2016

Mother Nature giveth, Mother Nature taketh away. Such is the creed of the outdoor hockey player and backyard rinkbuilder. And, as Patrick Guerette learned last year, the pond hockey tournament director. After consecutive blizzards dropped record amounts of snow in…

Joe ProulxNovember 24, 2015August 30, 2016 Pond Hockey No Comments
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Enter To Win One of Five Signed Copies Of Backyard Ice Rink: A Step-by-Step Guide

Enter To Win One of Five Signed Copies Of Backyard Ice Rink: A Step-by-Step Guide

It’s been nearly six years since I bought this domain name and started writing about outdoor hockey, and along the way, your comments, emails, tweets, and Facebook comments have kept me going and helped me recognize the tremendous community we…

Joe ProulxNovember 8, 2015November 8, 2015 Backyard Rinks 3 Comments
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‘Backyard Ice Rink’ – Officially Published!

‘Backyard Ice Rink’ – Officially Published!

615 days. Dozens of proposal revisions. One contract offer. 14 months to write, and rewrite, and provide pictures, and to beg all of you for even more pictures. And then beg again. And now, on November 2 2015, one finished…

Joe ProulxNovember 2, 2015 Backyard Rinks 4 Comments
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Sneak Peek of Our Upcoming Book (oh, and we still need your rink photos!)

Sneak Peek of Our Upcoming Book (oh, and we still need your rink photos!)

It’s been a quiet year or so here on the blog after we announced we were writing a backyard rink book. Hopefully that’ll pay off soon enough. Just yesterday I received the first version of the book layout in PDF…

Joe ProulxAugust 5, 2015August 5, 2015 Backyard Rinks No Comments
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Get Your Rink Pictures Into Our Book!

Get Your Rink Pictures Into Our Book!

Remember when we told you last fall that we were writing a backyard rink book? Well, the manuscript is due in the next couple of weeks, and now we need to start thinking about the layout and visuals. That means…

Joe ProulxMarch 22, 2015 Backyard Rinks No Comments
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