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,…
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…
Quebec Dad Fights Street Hockey Fine
Ah, the good old days. The days when you’d come home from school, shed your backpack, grab your stick, and play street hockey with the neighbors until the fading daylight made it hard to see the tennis ball. I can…
The Offseason Files: Super Chexx Bubble Hockey
As much as I love writing about backyard rinks and outdoor hockey, the season is excruciatingly short. So in an effort to bridge the ultralong gap between fill day and last skate, I’m going to dive into a series of…
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…
