Posted on 02/20/2021 5:58:21 AM PST by airborne
You have to see it to believe it.
Peter DeBoer said those words after the Vegas Golden Knights coach put the team through a fun, spirited pregame practice Friday on the NHL's makeshift rink built atop the 18th fairway at Edgewood Tahoe Resort, a slap shot away from Lake Tahoe with the Sierra Nevada in the distance.
"I think the pictures, as beautiful as they are, don't do it justice," DeBoer said. "I grew up in Canada and I know anywhere in the Northeast of the United States or Minnesota, anywhere they can build outdoor rinks, there's always a competition on the street of whose dad can build a better rink.
Every year you come back, and someone adds lights or a scoreboard. This is a drop the mic-type outdoor rink. It's the nicest I've ever seen."
Beautiful rink. I wish someone other than the NHL was playing there!
I miss the Reno Rage.
(No pun intended)
Thank You for posting.
Not so rinky dink rink, is it?
Is there any seating for spectators, or just one stationary camera location?
What a beautiful venue for a hockey game. The Flyers and Bruins play there this Sunday.
They are not having spectators.
Such a shame and a waste. They could have done a couple of their liberal butt kiss agenda driven crowds.
Medical first responders. Bunch of black kids. No end to the possibilities. Bettman dropped the ball.
What I enjoy most about the outdoor NHL games is the memories of my childhood they evoke—the pick-up street hockey games sliding around in my friend’s driveway, or down at the small patch of pond we’d find or on the frozen lake in the next town. Piles of snow pushed up to keep the puck from traveling too far, choppy ice which would quickly take the edge off your skate blades, large cinder cans burning wood sorrow fed by huge logs to sit on so we could thaw our feet...I lived for hockey back then. Magical times.
sorrow = surrounded by
its possible (I do not know for certain) that the NHL will leave it up so that the local community gets some use from it.
2:00 p.m. CT on NBC today.
Those annual outdoors games are fun to watch.
Yea but its got to be gone in spring, its on the 18th faraway.
I have fond memories like that too. As soon as it started getting cold I would take my Bauer Black Panther skates to the hardware store to get sharpened.
Hopefully it stays cold enough to keep the ice from becoming too soft.
Still my favorite outdoor rink. Lake Louise, Alberta
That’s weird that you mentioned taking your skates to a hardware store...that’ exactly what you had to do back then (60’s - early 70’s). In fact, I bought my first hockey stick (a Sher-wood) for $4.95 at the local hardware store.
Beautiful!!!
There are mechanical chillers
Thanks for the heads up!
Just turned the game on.
Very beautiful.
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