Still others employ real hockey boards salvaged from indoor rinks. The three core materials are the boards, ... A Facebook group called “Backyard Ice Hockey Rinks” has nearly 37,000 members.

Small town Up North rallies behind homemade ice rink After a year of isolation, ... enough to build a 55-foot-by-55-foot rink with boards about a foot high.

Backyard ice rinks: ‘There’s no end to the games you can make up’ ... After a couple years of a real basic rink, we added boards, lights, benches, and chicken-wire fencing.

While the ice can remain under boards for basketball, certain events require the rink to come out. The circus, for instance, uses anchors for its setup, and Monster Trucks have dirt, which can't ...

Russell Becker trudged out to the backyard, dragging the hose with him. A kid waddled through the snow, curtly behind him. Boards. Check. Lights. Check. Goalposts. Check. Russell ran down a mental ...

When Wayne Gretzky was a boy, he spent hours on end honing his skills on a makeshift ice rink his father created by flooding the family's backyard.

He decided to head to the hardware store to buy supplies to build an ice rink in his front yard. Adkins bought some plastic liners and boards, made the space and filled it with water.