That was probably when the high school boys hockey had a fun, early “classic” tournament. One of the players got frostbite pretty bad sitting outside (iirc he didn’t play much).
The schools and coaches got hit pretty hard by the media. The players (including the kid with frostbite were “What? It’s hockey in Minnesota!”
From the age of 4 they have been playing on ponds or backyard flooded rinks.
-4 currently and the neighbors are on their backyard rink right now.