An outdoor rink or frozen pond. No indoor ice allowed—the artificial chill preserves structure, the enemy of melting.
In the vast digital libraries of ice hockey lore, certain phrases capture the imagination more than box scores or championship rings. One such phrase, whispered in coaching clinics and pondered in rink-side essays, is
: The brothers clear a snow-covered neighborhood rink together, a task that requires "industry alone" to complete.
