The temperature read 10 degrees below zero that night in Wisconsin.
It was enough to chill even a hockey lifer like Dave Lohrei to the bone. Which is why he couldn’t believe it when his son, 12-year-old Mason, gave him a call.
“I’m at my desk, get a call,” Dave Lohrei recalls. “And he says, ‘Hey, can you come over and pass pucks to me?’ And I said, ‘Where?’ He goes, ‘I’m on the pond.’ I said, ‘Wait, you’re on the pond?’
“So I put on my snowsuit, I put on everything, and I went over there, and there he was — on this little pond he had already shoveled off just enough snow to receive and shoot pucks.