3x3 Outdoor Street Hockey Tournament Coming to East Hartford August 6-7

A competitive, open three-on-three outdoor street hockey tournament, featuring customized rinks with dasher boards and nets, live music, food trucks, pop-up-bars, and fun and games, is coming to East Hartford.

 

The Hartford Wolf Pack present Hartford HockeyFest 2022, in partnership with OVG360, at Pratt and Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, CT, on Saturday, August 6 and Sunday, August 7.

 

HockeyFest, the world’s largest street hockey festival, features a two-day street hockey tournament with live music, food trucks, skill games including hardest shot, mini-stick rinks, shooting accuracy and more. HockeyFest is for competitors and spectators with plenty of fun, food, drinks, and, of course, street hockey.

 

“HockeyFest is the Lollapalooza of Street Hockey” – Barstool Sports.

 

“We are thrilled to partner with the Wolf Pack and OVG360 in East Hartford,” said Brad Jones, President, HockeyFest/Game On. We look forward to an amazing, fun-filled weekend of hockey, music, food, and games at Rentschler Field. We look forward to working with OVG360 and their many other properties across North America as we grow HockeyFest and bring our brand to new markets.”

 

“We are excited to partner with HockeyFest Game On to bring this unique street hockey tournament to East Hartford. The festival style atmosphere of street hockey, food vendors and interactive games will be a fun experience for hockey fans of all ages,” said OVG360’s Ben Weiss, General Manager of the XL Center, Pratt & Whitney Stadium, Hartford Wolf Pack Business Operations.

 

As a Premier Partner sponsor of HockeyFest 2022, the owner of Hockey1 I South Windsor Arena, Andrew Petrin said, “We are very excited to partner with such a great hockey event for our local communities, we are looking forward to a wonderful weekend!”

 

The two-day round-robin tournament consists of individual teams of seven competing based on age and skill level in three-on-three on half-size standard hockey rinks. Each age classification will be broken out into boys/men and girls/women brackets. Each of those brackets will be further divided into competitive vs recreation groupings:

Youth:

• Mite - Birth year 2013-younger
• Squirt - Birth year 2012-2011
• Peewee - Birth year 2010-2009
• Bantam - Birth year 2008-2007
• Midget - Birth year 2006-2003

Adult:

• Men's Recreational
• Men's Intermediate
• Men's Competitive
• Women's
• Co-ed

 

Registration is $450/team and available at HARTFORDWOLFPACK.COM/HOCKEYFEST. Additionally, sponsorship packages are available by calling (860) 722-9637.