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…

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

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…

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:…

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…

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…




