Backyard-Hockey.com has grown tremendously in the last several months, and what started out as a simple running diary of my backyard rink adventures has grown into a full-fledged destination for the hockey purist. Â The site is only two months old,…

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Street Hockey Festival Comes To NH’s Lake Region
Before this past year, if you were an over-22 hockey player in New Hampshire looking for a tournament to play in, your choices were limited. There were a handful of indoor men’s ice hockey tournaments in the region, but you…

Backyard-Hockey Profiles: Bob DeGemmis
Backyard-Hockey Profiles is a series that looks to shed light on the people who embody the true spirit of the game and the pure joy that comes from sharing it with others. If you would like to nominate someone to…
A Hero’s Homecoming
Wow, did it just get a bit dusty in here? I don’t mention the NHL very often, but kudos to the Washington Capitals organization for helping facilitate this emotional homecoming. Hockey, at its most basic level, is about family and friends and a…

Book Review: ‘Open Ice’ by Jack Falla
I originally wrote this book review in January 2009 for a website I belong to called Goodreads. I’ve gone back and refined it, and thought I would post it here, since I believe the primary tenets of this book very…