Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks sat down with the Pond Hockey crew last winter. Here is a short snippet of what he had to say about outdoor hockey.

Jordan Leopold of the Colorado Avalanche talks about his memories growing up playing outside.

Our favorite bloggers most recent post:

“In the last six months we’ve been contacted by representatives from two different feature-length films, both including hockey in their stories. We were provided with promotional material and politely asked to assist in the marketing endeavors. We found the outreach flattering, and so we obliged.

We are greatly anticipating the release of ‘Pond Hockey’ this November, and will assist its filmmakers additionally in every manner we possibly can.”

For the entire article visit On Frozen Blog

The final results are in and we are excited to announce that “Pond Hockey” finished #2 out of 150 very good films at this years Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. Again, thanks to everyone who came out to shows!

We had an awesome time being a part of MSPIFF! All three shows were sold out and were very well received by audiences and local media. Thanks to all the folks who came out to the shows, and thanks to the festival’s entire staff for all their hard work putting on three great nights of fun and after-parties. If you happened to miss the show in the Twin Cities, don’t worry…we’ll be back in November!

Jeff Sorem, Tommy Haines, Neal & Sally Broten hanging out at the PH opening night party.

Former Minnesota Iron Ranger and Harvard hockey star, Philip Falcone has been a busy guy lately. In addition to substantial investments in the New York Times and the Minnesota Wild (Falcone recently joined new owner Craig Leipold as General Partner of the Wild), Falcone has spread his wings a bit further yet with – you guessed it – an investment in our very own Pond Hockey, the movie. Philip has joined our crew as Executive Producer alongside Northland Films, and we are very excited to have such a huge hockey supporter on board.

Philip and his New York-based hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, are recently featured as the cover story for Business Week.

Go Wild. Go Pond Hockey.

With the film premiere only 3 days away, tickets are starting to sell out. We’ve also got a full media schedule this week, making the rounds to talk about the film.

On the ticket front, Friday’s public premiere is sold-out. But, tickets for Wednesday (4/30) at St Anthony Main are still available.

If you’ve got a spare minute, you can catch us on one of these local stations:

Tuesday (4/29) - St. Paul Pioneer Press By Bruce Brothers
Sun (4/27) - Rosen’s Sports Sunday at WCCO-TV ch4 with Mark Rosen
Tuesday (4/25) - Minneapolis Star Tribune By Tom Herberg
Thurs (4/24) - Cities 97 Morning Show with Brian Turner at 7:10am (w/ Brian Bonin)
Thurs (4/24) - KSTP-TV ch5 with Rusty Gatenby
Thurs (4/24) - MPR with Euan Kerr
Wed (4/23) - KARE-TV ch11 with Diana Pierce at 4pm

Wed (4/23) - KSTP am 1500 with Matt Thomas at 7:05pm
Thurs (4/24) - Twin Cities Live on KSTP-TV ch5 at 3pm
Thurs (4/24) - WCCO am 830 with Steve Enck
Sun (4/20) - WCCO am 830 with Steve Thompson
Tuesday (4/10) - St. Paul Pioneer Press By Bob Sansevere
(Jan) - NHL XM radio
(Jan) - ESPN Sports Center with John Buccigross

The time has finally arrived! Pond Hockey is skating out of the editing room for a festival run starting right where filming began…in Minnesota.

We’re happy to be a part of a terrific lineup of films at the 2008 Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival. Here’s the schedule of events:

Thursday, April 24 - St. Anthony Main Theaters - VIP screening with limited public seating
Friday, April 25 - Oak Street Cinema - Official public premiere with public reception to follow
Wednesday, April 30 - St Anthony Main Theaters - Final festival showing

We’d love to see you all at the show of course, but if you can’t get a ticket, don’t worry, Pond Hockey will be back for theatrical screenings and a DVD release in November. If you want to secure a copy in advance, you can pre-order a DVD right now at a special discounted rate in honor of our festival screenings.

For tickets and details of our MSPIFF Festival screenings click Pond Hockey.

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We made a fitting final stop on our pond hockey journey to visit with The Great One: Wayne Gretzky. He told us about his childhood growing up in Brantford, Ontario. He first learned how to skate on a nearby river behind his grandmother’s house, and later imagined he was Gordie Howe–practicing by himself on the backyard rink that his dad, Walter, created for him. The Rink-Rat of all rink-rats. AWESOME!

The Pond Hockey crew returned to Lake Nokomis for the 2008 U.S. Pond Hockey Championship. We’ve been at the event every year since it started, but this year was different: no cameras. Instead of filming the action, we chilled out in -15 degree temps, handing out buttons and talking about the movie with as many people as we could. We also got to actually WATCH some games this year. It was a lot of fun, and we made some new friends. Definitely worth braving the cold…but, it always is.

Check out some photos from this year’s tourney here on Flickr.

Also, we had some fun talking up the movie on the local networks. Here we are on KARE, KSTP and MyFoxHockey.com (check number 5).

Good to see so many rink rats on the ice. See you again next year!