Delaney: Ice Bowl is nice (and cold) bowl
I went to the Adirondack Ice Bowl in Old Forge on Saturday.
That's a pretty big assignment for a girl better suited to watching NFL Films of the 'Ice Bowl' in a cozy living room than actually covering one.
The ice hockey version on Fourth Lake was an 'Ice Bowl.' But a fun 'Ice Bowl.'
I spotted a temperature of 13-degrees on a clock in Old Forge on the way in. That's balmy from the minus-20, minus-30 I was hearing about during Friday's games. I could've stood wearing another layer or two but overall I was comfortable. It was a bright, sunny afternoon here and that helped tremendously.
The players, overall hockey players are a hearty lot, I'd say, were not bothered by the weather. They were my inspiration.
"It doesn't faze anyone," said Utica's Emerson Mish. "Once you get moving around you forget about the cold."
There were there for some old-style hockey. The concept was to bring guys, many from the Utica area, back to their hockey roots. Before sports became ultra-structured, kids played pick-up games in driveways, back yards, fields and ponds. Or at the Utica Marsh in the case of the 27-year-old Mish, a former minor league player.
Mish started skating when he was about 18 months old. Once he started playing, influenced by his brother and father, he regularly walked down Jason Street to the marsh. Mish played at Thomas R. Proctor and Notre Dame but finished high school at Canterbury Prep in Connecticut.
Three years of minor league hockey followed and now he's doing some construction work.
More than 140 players entered the tournament, made up of 24 six-man teams. That's a big jump from the first year when 16 three-man teams played at First Lake.
"It shows you can get 100-plus guys together, have a good time and play the game that they love," Mish said.
That's a pretty big assignment for a girl better suited to watching NFL Films of the 'Ice Bowl' in a cozy living room than actually covering one.
The ice hockey version on Fourth Lake was an 'Ice Bowl.' But a fun 'Ice Bowl.'
I spotted a temperature of 13-degrees on a clock in Old Forge on the way in. That's balmy from the minus-20, minus-30 I was hearing about during Friday's games. I could've stood wearing another layer or two but overall I was comfortable. It was a bright, sunny afternoon here and that helped tremendously.
The players, overall hockey players are a hearty lot, I'd say, were not bothered by the weather. They were my inspiration.
"It doesn't faze anyone," said Utica's Emerson Mish. "Once you get moving around you forget about the cold."
There were there for some old-style hockey. The concept was to bring guys, many from the Utica area, back to their hockey roots. Before sports became ultra-structured, kids played pick-up games in driveways, back yards, fields and ponds. Or at the Utica Marsh in the case of the 27-year-old Mish, a former minor league player.
Mish started skating when he was about 18 months old. Once he started playing, influenced by his brother and father, he regularly walked down Jason Street to the marsh. Mish played at Thomas R. Proctor and Notre Dame but finished high school at Canterbury Prep in Connecticut.
Three years of minor league hockey followed and now he's doing some construction work.
More than 140 players entered the tournament, made up of 24 six-man teams. That's a big jump from the first year when 16 three-man teams played at First Lake.
"It shows you can get 100-plus guys together, have a good time and play the game that they love," Mish said.
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