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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…
Meet Your Tournament: The Midwest Freeze Leinenkugel’s Classic Pond Hockey Tournament

Meet Your Tournament: The Midwest Freeze Leinenkugel’s Classic Pond Hockey Tournament

Each year for the past two, we have partnered with a handful of pond hockey tournaments from all over North America in an attempt to help grow their event, and subsequently, grow the game of pond hockey. In the coming…

Joe ProulxNovember 27, 2012November 27, 2012 Pond Hockey 1 Comment
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Falla: Give Us Our Winter Classic Back

Falla: Give Us Our Winter Classic Back

Big thanks to Brian Falla for doing what all great writers do: taking the time to put pen to paper and express what so many of us feel, only in a more eloquent way. Below, Brian questions and then justifies…

Joe ProulxNovember 8, 2012September 9, 2013 Backyard Rinks, Misc Hockey, Pond Hockey 4 Comments
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Top 5 Reasons You Should Build A Backyard Rink THIS Year

Top 5 Reasons You Should Build A Backyard Rink THIS Year

You’re reading this on a hockey-themed website that focuses on the outdoor game, so it’s safe to say you have some level of interest in the sport of hockey and its under-the-open-sky cousin. But I know where you’re at mentally:…

Joe ProulxOctober 17, 2012October 17, 2012 Backyard Rinks No Comments
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Welcome to the 2013 Pond Hockey Season!

Welcome to the 2013 Pond Hockey Season!

I launched Backyard-Hockey.com back on February 1, 2010, mostly as a collection of musings about my own backyard rink with a couple of how-to posts mixed in. Three days later, I drove an hour north and played in the inaugural…

Joe ProulxOctober 6, 2012October 6, 2012 Pond Hockey No Comments
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Falla: Backyard Rink – Past, Prelude or Better Off Dead?

Falla: Backyard Rink – Past, Prelude or Better Off Dead?

Editor’s Note: As we hustle to get our pond hockey tournament listing finished for the 2013 season and race around preparing for season two of Elite Backyard Rinks, it helps to have some teammates to take a shift on the…

Joe ProulxSeptember 19, 2012September 9, 2013 Backyard Rinks 4 Comments
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