WOONSOCKET – Twenty minutes before game time, in a crowded ice rink locker room, the Mount St. Charles Academy hockey player discovered one of his skate blades badly dulled. He reached for his cell ...

His company, Sparx Hockey, Inc., makes the Sparx Skate Sharpener, a portable machine that can sharpen hockey or figure skates in two and a half minutes. The Acton company’s product is used by National ...

Ask anyone who's sharpened skates professionally, and they will tell you that it's an art form. I worked in a hockey store for most of my teenage years, and even after all that time, I was constantly ...

Russ Layton was at a loss. The CEO of Acton-based Sparx Hockey, which makes portable skate sharpening machines, was running a non-essential business in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He furloughed ...

We'd love to see your photos from the skating championships. Upload them here. Larry Muxlow is one of two skate sharpeners on hand at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. My title is skate sharpener ...

Russ Layton was one of the few people in his blue-collar neighborhood to make it to college–and by most measures, his career in mechanical engineering was a success. But he couldn’t shake the feeling ...

ST. PAUL -- Arthur Peterson, who invented the E-Z Sharp skate sharpening machine used by professional and college teams, municipal arenas and sporting goods stores internationally, has died. Peterson ...

The Westmount Recreation Centre squats at the foot of Montreal’s grandest neighbourhood, and on a sunny late-August afternoon an NHL veteran is at ice level, wrestling with a decision. Derick Brassard ...

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