OUTDOOR HOCKEY CLUB DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON YOUTUBE

Moosomin is a great prairie town with a strong connection to outdoor hockey. The outdoor rink and skating loop is always buzzing in the winter months and this episode captures the Moosomin outdoor hockey experience through sights and sounds of the volunteers and the people who play there.

Filmed on location:

December 11 & 12, 2022 

Hillcrest Community Rink is a volunteer run rink in Whitehorse, YT. Buster Clare has taken the lead on making sure the ice is cleared and flooded each morning using a technique he learned growing up in Dawson City. The rink is tucked into the trees in the middle of the Hillcrest neighbourhood and it is always buzzing with activity.

Filmed on location:

January 14, 2023

There are groups of families and friends heading outdoors and hitting the rinks together every winter in and around Whitehorse. This episode spends time at the rink with the Tomlin family, the Goon Girls, and Ray Marnoch provides his perspective on outdoor hockey. 

Filmed on location:

January 14-17, 2023

The prairies are home to many outdoor rinks, but the rink on Beaver Creek Farms is a special one.  Darryl Wiebe is continuing a family tradition of creating an outdoor rink for family and friends. With help from cousin Andrew Doerksen, a majestic rink sits alongside Beaver Creek that provides endless hours of fun over the winter months.

Filmed on location:

November 11, 2022

November 25, 2022

February 7, 2023

Chris Howie has spent countless hours at the Lions Park Community Rink in Newmarket and the evidence is as clear as the pristine ice he makes each winter. Chris leads a strong group of volunteers to help create a great space for the community to gather and enjoy outdoor hockey. He runs a tight ship giving younger skaters an opportunity to try the game and get comfortable, then throughout the day, more age groups take the ice.

Filmed on location: February 17-19, 2023

Every winter you can find Eric Reder working hard on both of the rinks he makes on and beside the Seine River. The setting couldn’t be more perfect tucked in amongst the trees on the river banks. After four winters of making a rink, Eric fine tunes the process each year, which leads to many hours of enjoying the game of hockey in nature.

Filmed on location: January 4 and 8, 2023

This episodes goes back to the inception of the Outdoor Hockey Club idea after spending time shovelling, attempting to flood, and playing hockey on many rinks and frozen lakes.

Filmed on location: Winter of 2020 and 2021

Pavel Barber created himself a career in hockey after spending countless hours on outdoor rinks in Toronto, Ontario. Barber turned his passion into his purpose and didn’t look back.

Filmed on location: January 21, 2020