Article: Pure kid fun fuels Wisconsin town's pond hockey fest.

Byline: Brett Mcneil

Feb. 25--EAGLE RIVER, Wis. -- The cold was bad, but the wind was just brutal. It streamed across Dollar Lake in punishing currents, cutting through layers of jerseys and sweatshirts, pads and helmets, through the makeshift hat one guy fashioned out of a hockey sock, through the denim overalls another guy wore as a uniform. It hurt and burned, but at the first-ever USA Hockey Adult Pond Hockey Championships last weekend in this frigid northern Wisconsin vacation town, it didn't keep anyone off the ice. "It's kind of the way you were raised, whether you were bred to play in a rink or to skate wherever you can," said Lisa Nosek, 24, ...

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