The Annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Tournament returns January 28-30th, 2022
The 1883 Black Ice Hockey Association has green lit the annual Black Ice Pond Hockey Tournament for January 28-30, 2022 at White Park in Concord, NH.
The 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship and Festival has become one of the largest outdoor winter event in Central New Hampshire. The event hosts more than 95 teams with close to 700 hockey players. The event also offers a wide variety of family activities which include interactive games, rock wall, bonfires, live entertainment, fireworks, food trucks and ice and snow sculptures. The event will include youth hockey teams playing in the Shinny Classic. The Black Ice’s mission is to maintain and expand ice skating and recreational opportunities while preserving hockey history and creating new interest for the game New Englanders love.
Spectators can expect to see White Pond loaded up with rinks where as many as six games will be going on at once, allowing all teams to play as many as four, 30 minute, games as they try to earn the Black Ice title and take home the coveted “Hobey Stick”, named after the legendary hockey player Hobey Baker, who attended Concord’s St. Paul’s School where it is said that the first hockey game in the US was played.
And, “Black Ice” means the purest of ice. Back in 1883 at St. Paul’s School had organized pond hockey game ever played in these United States.
Hobey Baker is called “The Father of American Hockey” played for the school, and was inducted in the first class of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1973. Concord is the home of two US Olympic Hockey Athletes. Douglas N. Everett was named to the 1928 and 1932 US Olympic Teams. Tara Mounsey won Medal at the 1998 Olympics and the 2002 Olympics as a member of the US Woman’s Olympic Hockey Team.
The tournament today will feature music and raffles making the weekend an incredible and unique fan experience. And with Concord’s Main Street less than a mile away, visitors will have plenty of options for restaurants, hotels and shopping.
Parking can be found at White Park itself and side street parking will be available around the park as well. For more information and to view live scoring for the tournament, visit www.blackicepondhockey.com.
Concord has much to offer. The Capital Region offers a quality of living to rival any community in the country. Excellent public and private schools produce a well-educated workforce. Greater Concord boasts one of the finest healthcare networks north of Boston. If you enjoy the theater, visiting museums and art galleries or browsing well-stocked libraries, you will enjoy our offerings.
The 10th Annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Tournament returns!
