You should also see some phenomenal playground, or pond hockey players, who know the game that’s not as physical.

Our motto: Pond hockey, the way nature intended it.

Right now, it’s all about getting the ice ready. It?s all about flooding.

For so many people, it?s how we started playing hockey.

The thing just started snowballing, and here we are today with 25 rinks on Lake Calhoun.

It’s a bond that the best players in the NHL have with people like me. Doing it with the wind blowing in your face, and doing it when you’re 10 years old, and until your...