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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…

New England Pond Hockey Classic

Just a quick note to let you know about a really cool event that’s coming to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire.  Hundreds of hockey players and fans will converge on tiny and picturesque Meredith Bay, NH for the first…

Joe ProulxFebruary 2, 2010July 1, 2011 Pond Hockey No Comments
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Tools of Ignorance

The term “tools of ignorance” is generally applied to the equipment that baseball catchers wear.  Coined by Muddy Ruel, a major-league catcher in the 1920’s, it loosely implies that smart folks would never don such gear and play such a…

Joe ProulxJanuary 29, 2010July 1, 2011 Backyard Rinks 4 Comments
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How to build a Homeboni (aka Rink Rake, Home Zamboni)

How to build a Homeboni (aka Rink Rake, Home Zamboni)

Joe ProulxJanuary 18, 2010August 23, 2013 Backyard Rinks 47 Comments
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Delay of Game

Ah, the January Saturday.  In my short time as a rinkbuilder, I’ve come to love the January Saturday.  The coffee is always better, the toddler wake up call somewhat welcomed, on a January Saturday.  It is the only day of…

Joe ProulxJanuary 16, 2010July 1, 2011 Backyard Rinks No Comments
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January 10, 1998

It was probably somewhere around 8pm, after the first of two intra-city hockey games at the JFK Coliseum.  I was clad in my then-awesome varsity jacket, the giant “W” crest and stark-white pleather sleeves overstating my confidence.  One of my good…

Joe ProulxJanuary 11, 2010July 1, 2011 Backyard Rinks 1 Comment
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