This year more than most, my Google Alerts are coming in handy. I have a couple dozen set up at the moment, all trained on phrases like “pond hockey tournament”, “pond hockey classic”, and the like. Without fail, each morning I wake up and survey the damage. Event X has been postponed. Event Y has [...]
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If you’re one of the thousands who spent time on the frozen bliss of Lake Nokomis this weekend, then you’ve heard it. Amidst the crowds and vendors and skates carving hard outdoor ice and huffs and puffs of USPHC participants, you’ve heard it. And if you’ve ever played pond hockey with a wooden goal, you [...] For all the joys associated with teaching a kid to skate — the shrieks of happiness, the “I’m doing it” look — there are certain pains as well. Namely the aches in one’s back and knees after spending two hours bending at the waist to hold onto tiny hands as they wobble around on miniature [...]
Tournament directors (and their sponsors) are hoping to see sights like this in the very near future As a backyard rinkbuilder, the balmy start to this winter has left me annoyed. That I have a few dozen backyard rink customers, many of whom are rinkbuilding for the first time and who are looking to me [...] One moment, Jack Jablonski was another 16-year-old high school hockey player enjoying the game in the country’s biggest hockey state. He had scored his team’s first goal, and at that moment, his career and his life were no different than the thousands of other high schoolers proudly wearing their school’s colors on the ice. [...] |
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