Reflections

A Winter’s Game

Uniforms change, protective gear advances, and the rules evolve through the years, but the game of ice hockey still retains its key elements: ice, a puck, sticks, and a joyful intensity that manifests itself in both fierce play and unbridled celebration, the one often leading to the other.

THEN (above) A boys hockey game in 1978. Photo: 1978 Loomiscellany

NOW (opposite page): The 2020 boys varsity hockey team and coaches celebrate their New England large-school championship in the New England Prep School Athletic Council's Martin/ Earl Tournament, which was contested at Trinity College. Photo: Dave Arnold

The 2020 boys varsity hockey team and coaches celebrate their New England large-school championship in the New England Prep School Athletic Council's Martin/Earl Tournament, which was contested at Trinity College

Photo: Dave Arnold