ESPN.com · Aug 18, 2022
Inside 3ICE 3-on-3 hockey's revolutionary first season
The 3ICE 3-on-3 hockey league will award the Patrick Cup to its inaugural champions this weekend in Las Vegas. Just don't expect the winning players to lift it over their heads.
"It's heavy as hell, man," said E.J. Johnston, the founder and CEO of 3ICE. "It's like 65 pounds."
The first year of this start-up league has been defined by inventive thinking, creative solutions to challenges and an untraditional approach to hockey. So it's only fitting that the 3ICE season -- which concludes with a four-team tournament at Orleans Arena on Saturday (4 p.m. ET, CBS) -- would end with a string of meetings about the proper way to present a trophy that weighs as much as a German shepherd.