Northern Rancher
Well-known member
To hockey when I was a kid when it got this cold. Our old rink had natural ice so it was superfast when it got this cold. The rinks weren't heated so we'd all have at least one layer of longjohns on-great to pick up slivers from the old benchs in the dressing rooms. But the most vivid memory of all was freezing your feet-your toes would be frozen whitehard when you came off the ice-imagine fifteen hockey Dads-moms were NOT allowed in the dressing rooms-rubbing their kids feet while about half of them bawled their heads off. It used to really hurt but you tried your best not to let on. There's a whole generation of hockey players have never had the pleasure of that experience. When we went to senior games the whole crowd wwould pile into a little concession room to warm uip and have a smoke between periods. despite being exposed to an absolute haze of second hand smoke we all lived. Us little guys would just burrow into the middle to get warm before the next puck drop. Then we had our little turf wars under the stands over who got the broken sticks and lost pucks that ended up there lol.
