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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…

2011 North American Pond Hockey Tournament List

A comprehensive list of 2011 Pond Hockey Tournaments taking place in North America.

Joe ProulxMarch 3, 2010May 13, 2010 Pond Hockey 10 Comments
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2011 New England Pond Hockey Classic (NEPHC) dates released!

2011 New England Pond Hockey Classic (NEPHC) dates released!

Only days removed from the 2010 edition of the NEPHC, the powers that be released the dates for the 2011 tournament.  Next year’s tourney will take place on the ice at Meredith Bay from Friday, February 4th to Sunday, February…

Joe ProulxMarch 2, 2010March 3, 2010 Pond Hockey No Comments
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Nearing the endgame

Nearing the endgame

This post was inevitable.  But I still hate writing it. Because it is beginning to look more and more like Sunday, February 14th was the last skating day of the 2009-2010 backyard rink season.  I spent about an hour on the…

Joe ProulxFebruary 25, 2010March 4, 2010 Backyard Rinks 1 Comment
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On hockey, life, and waiting for the things we want

On hockey, life, and waiting for the things we want

The sport of hockey is powerful.  I have never been able to find another activity that so perfectly blends the physical with the mental, the instinctual with the planned and practiced. It is art and violence and poetry and fury, all…

Joe ProulxFebruary 11, 2010July 1, 2011 Backyard Rinks 2 Comments
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2010 New England Pond Hockey Classic Recap

“Is it February 2011 yet?” Such was the general sentiment as we begrudgingly made our way back to ‘real life’ late Saturday afternoon after playing our last game (and drinking our last Labatt’s) at the first annual New England Pond…

Joe ProulxFebruary 8, 2010July 1, 2011 Pond Hockey No Comments
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