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Scott Crowder, the young man who is attempting to corner the market on New England pond hockey
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A big one came two weeks ago, when he first stepped onto frozen Lake Winnipesaukee to begin the massive process of carving 14 rinks from a thick layer of snow for a 1,000player tournament this weekend, and his boots informed him that the snow was the least of his problems
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The ice was solid
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had never heard of a shear pin before, but we broke 100 of them, Crowder said. told my friends that I was going to do soccer tournaments from now on, because the fields are already made.
And then, by all accounts, he delivered on that promise
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Crowder, the son of former Bruin and Northeastern University coach Bruce Crowder, is capitalizing on an ideal, a notion of how life was or ought to be. It a picturepostcard New England tradition that may exist more in memory than reality these days, but is still, Crowder says, heavy demand.
Riding that buzz, Crowder inaugural New England Pond Hockey Classic drew 500 players last February (with hundreds more on a waiting list) and brought in big tourist dollars to the town during its slowest season.
But that was then, when the weather cut the kid a break, melted the snow with rain, then froze it solid to the point where one team skated from Meredith to Weirs Beach, 4 miles away.
This year
Goyard, as Crowder has made pond hockey his fulltime job and not only doubled the size of the Winnipesaukee tournament to 152 teams (they each pay $500 to enter), but added two more tournaments over the next two weekends in Manchester and on Lake Champlain in Vermont Mother Nature has not been so kind.
After a twoweek fight with slush, Crowder and his team had the rinks readytoskate Tuesday. The next day it snowed 14 inches.
As the sun set Thursday night, just hours before the puck dropped for the first game Friday morning
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told my girlfriend I wanted a ninetofive job, he joked as he directed two guys with shovels to hit a rough patch near the center of the ice
Pandora Charms. a guaranteed salary. he did is show that a largescale event could work in this region, Joe Proulx said Friday as he looked out across a frozen lake bustling with hockey action.
Five years ago, he said, there were a handful of tournaments in North America
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The outdoor game has always been prized for its freeform improvisation, its very lack of organization. But what Crowder is doing in this market (most of his players are from Greater Boston) does not run against that ethos, Proulx argues. Instead, it enables it
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that organization, the disorganization of pond hockey could not happen. What he done is allow the rest of us to come out here and play shinny, he said, using a hockey term to denote a pickup game where shin pads are the only protection you need.
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The game favors danglers shifty finesse players and puck control, not skating and strategy. And while it can at times get heated the first ambulance arrived five minutes into the tournament for many, it just an excuse to hang out with the boys, act up, and try to drink beer before it freezes (this is one of the reasons you have to be 21 or over to play in the tournament).
remember jumping off the school bus and running right to the bogs to skate, said Scott Gustafson
monster beats, a 46yearold who was playing on a team from Plymouth, Mass. a lot of the younger kids have never played outdoors. I can wait for my son to be old enough to come up and play with us, because this is something he never experienced.
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