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

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 feet are freezing. It's just the most wonderful thing I could ever think of.

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

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

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