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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
