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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…
Classmates Organize Pond Hockey Tourney To Benefit Paralyzed MN Teenager

Classmates Organize Pond Hockey Tourney To Benefit Paralyzed MN Teenager

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…

Joe ProulxJanuary 6, 2012 Pond Hockey No Comments
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Announcing The Backyard-Hockey.com Forum Launch Winners

The Backyard-Hockey.com Forums are live and active, with over 70 members to date. As promised, we’re giving away schwag from our friends at the New England and Lake Champlain Pond Hockey Classics, the US Pond Hockey Championships, Northland Films. As…

Joe ProulxJanuary 4, 2012 Misc Hockey No Comments
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‘Twas The Skate Before Christmas – 2011

‘Twas The Skate Before Christmas – 2011

Longtime readers of the site will remember this from last year — you remember, the season we filled on December 10th and skated a full two weeks before Christmas? This year, as I sit here and type this, it’s 39…

Joe ProulxDecember 21, 2011 Backyard Rinks 4 Comments
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Terrence Fogarty’s ‘Mork’s Pond’

Terrence Fogarty’s ‘Mork’s Pond’

If you’re a regular reader of this site, you know all about the story of Luke Phillips, who won a Ford contest and drove a new Explorer to Minnesota to play some pond hockey with his buddies. While researching Luke’s…

Joe ProulxDecember 14, 2011December 13, 2011 Backyard Rinks, Pond Hockey No Comments
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Product Review: Skaboots Walkable Skate Guards

Product Review: Skaboots Walkable Skate Guards

Whether or not you’re of the entrepreneurial mindset, you undoubtedly run into a product every now and then that makes you say, “DAMN! Why didn’t I think of that?” Get ready to say it again in about ten seconds. Every…

Joe ProulxDecember 12, 2011July 22, 2014 Backyard Rinks, Pond Hockey 3 Comments
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