JakeLove Posted yesterday at 02:57 AM Posted yesterday at 02:57 AM 11 minutes ago, skateshattrick said: I went there! It is Cox Park Central Park with my cousin ca. 1977 Quote
tnt Posted yesterday at 03:24 AM Posted yesterday at 03:24 AM 5 hours ago, yzerman19 said: Gotta say as RR alumni that seeing Central knock off Moorhead made me smile. Minnesota does not have a monopoly on high school hockey....well, they do for day in day out....but a GF school can beat the best of Minny on any given night. GF might not be growing like Fargo, but as long as there is UND hockey, there will be players and teams. Congrats to Central, and congrats to the families and coaches that keep developing these players....not sure if kids still grow up on the ODRs of GF like I did, but I sure hope so... Even back in the day the Grand Forks teams could compete with top Minnesota teams. If memory serves, when Minnesota was one class, Roseau won the state title and only lost 2 games all year, one to Red River, the North Dakota state champion. Chris Gotziaman and Billy Lund were on Roseau that year, and Blais was head coach. Was the Corey Campbell and Chad Skarperud team for Red River. 2 Quote
yzerman19 Posted yesterday at 03:37 AM Posted yesterday at 03:37 AM 19 minutes ago, gfhockey said: And the cool kids got pizza Pizza in the warming house was a special treat...Remember how cold the water from the fountain was? Also, if it snowed, we didn't wait, we shoveled the ice ourselves. 1 Quote
sioux rube Posted yesterday at 03:38 AM Posted yesterday at 03:38 AM 1 minute ago, yzerman19 said: Pizza in the warming house was a special treat...Remember how cold the water from the fountain was? Also, if it snowed, we didn't wait, we shoveled the ice ourselves. Wait for what? We were the snow movers Quote
yzerman19 Posted yesterday at 03:40 AM Posted yesterday at 03:40 AM The sound of pucks hitting the boards at night echoed half a mile 1 Quote
gfhockey Posted yesterday at 03:42 AM Posted yesterday at 03:42 AM 1 minute ago, yzerman19 said: The sound of pucks hitting the boards at night echoed half a mile Yes, and the race to get to a freshly watered over ice was on after school plus the nets are about half the size and then the one kid would always show up in goalie pads, which was a treat to shoot on a real goalie Quote
JakeLove Posted yesterday at 03:47 AM Posted yesterday at 03:47 AM When playing was for personal joy not for advancement to a “higher level” 2 Quote
tnt Posted yesterday at 03:52 AM Posted yesterday at 03:52 AM 14 minutes ago, yzerman19 said: Pizza in the warming house was a special treat...Remember how cold the water from the fountain was? Also, if it snowed, we didn't wait, we shoveled the ice ourselves. Yeah, and it wasn’t easy when you were younger pushing that triple-wide shovel, especially pushing a ton of snow with it. Quote
siouxfaninseattle Posted yesterday at 04:06 AM Posted yesterday at 04:06 AM Elks Park! Used to go home after school and eat an orange and head to the rink. Went home for dinner and back when the warming house reopened at 7 and skated until it closed at 9. Great times! 1 Quote
sioux rube Posted yesterday at 04:22 AM Posted yesterday at 04:22 AM Moved to Jamestown in ‘70 from Fergus Falls. Did not want to. No indoor ice in Jamestown until the Wilson was built in ‘75. Did not matter what the weather was we skated after school, home to eat, back to the rink for practice and skated until a parent came and got us. Made one tough Quote
siouxfaninseattle Posted yesterday at 04:50 AM Posted yesterday at 04:50 AM 23 minutes ago, sioux rube said: Moved to Jamestown in ‘70 from Fergus Falls. Did not want to. No indoor ice in Jamestown until the Wilson was built in ‘75. Did not matter what the weather was we skated after school, home to eat, back to the rink for practice and skated until a parent came and got us. Made one tough My first high school game (JV) was played in the Winter Sports Building. I don't think you can call it indoor ice but there wasn't any wind. We were still practicing outside. I think Purpur opened in '68? Quote
dustnyou Posted 22 hours ago Posted 22 hours ago Oh man talk about nostalgia…. I can smell this thread lol. Gotta love the Giovanni’s pizza delivered to the warming house at Lions park for five bucks and change… The best times! 2 Quote
sioux rube Posted 22 hours ago Posted 22 hours ago 9 hours ago, siouxfaninseattle said: My first high school game (JV) was played in the Winter Sports Building. I don't think you can call it indoor ice but there wasn't any wind. We were still practicing outside. I think Purpur opened in '68? Yes you can call it an indoor rink for one reason. No more shoveling Quote
90siouxfan Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago You rich city kids with your rinks.... frozen street, Ed Meyers slough, rush lake.... cut up plastic jugs to make ankle supports, chicken wire and scrap wood goals... Quote
Frozen4sioux Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago 12 hours ago, yzerman19 said: The sound of pucks hitting the boards at night echoed half a mile Some of the best memories of childhood.... A firetruck flooded rink the size of a half football field .... frozen toes & nose... friends in the warming shack... XL 93 bumpin 80's greatness out of the speakers strung up in the trees... the sound of wooden sticks sailing pucks into the chicken wire nets. No helmets.... no pads...... no parents...... no problems....... 2 2 Quote
Wilbur Posted 20 hours ago Author Posted 20 hours ago When I was in college lived in a house south of Demers by Ben Franklin elementary school and spent countless hours out there. Had to skate right after college classes as the evening schedule was pretty booked with practices. Ice was always really taken care of. When I was in the dorms you couldn't have a worthwhile skate at Aggassiz Elementary as there was probably 50 college kids skating there at any time of the day. Saturday mornings was a blood bath to get there early or you had to go elsewhere. Quote
90siouxfan Posted 19 hours ago Posted 19 hours ago University park rink was my college fun spot. Quote
Brim006 Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago The only place colder than an ODR in Grand Forks was playing indoors at the Bill Jerome in Devils Lake Speaking of, it's the oldest indoor rink in the state with an opening year of 1935. They're doing some renovations to it currently which includes a neat touch of hanging all sorts of old hockey photos taken in the rink over the years all around the lobby. Photos from the DLHS varisty vs UND JV games in the 50s and 60s are some of the neater ones. Nice to see they're keeping it going. And yes, the tractor zam lives on as the corners are too sharp for a real zam to work which is why it has continued on despite zam upgrades at the other rink lol. 2 1 Quote
siouxfaninseattle Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago 3 hours ago, Frozen4sioux said: Some of the best memories of childhood.... A firetruck flooded rink the size of a half football field .... frozen toes & nose... friends in the warming shack... XL 93 bumpin 80's greatness out of the speakers strung up in the trees... the sound of wooden sticks sailing pucks into the chicken wire nets. No helmets.... no pads...... no parents...... no problems....... 55 gallon drum converted to wood burning stove.....pom pom pull away.....crack the whip 1 Quote
yzerman19 Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago wheelin' around and picking corns until more kids showed up and then the sweet words "wanna get a game going?"....I think coke and mello yello was 35 cents in the machine. XL 93 brings back memories too. We played a lotta of free for all...I remember trying to stick handle a sponge puck on choppy, snowy ice. 1 Quote
gfhockey Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago Sticks in the middle and blindfold the kid picking the teams 1 Quote
yzerman19 Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago 2 minutes ago, gfhockey said: Sticks in the middle and blindfold the kid picking the teams pull the red river roughrider red, black and white or Central maroon and gray hat over the eyes Quote
gfhockey Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago 6 minutes ago, yzerman19 said: pull the red river roughrider red, black and white or Central maroon and gray hat over the eyes Or how about flicking a puck to the figure skating rink so you purposely have to go over there in front of the hot girl from middle school or elementary school and grab it and stop and maybe spray her with a little snow 1 Quote
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