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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. IT IS THE BLADE FROM AN ICE SKATE. AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, YOU CAN SEE THE RAZOR SHARP BURRS CREATED WHEN THE SKATE IS SHARP. AND AND THOSE BURRS ARE WHAT’S BEEN ...

CHATHAM, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jan 22, 2014) - Guspro Inc. announced today that it has acquired Ice King, makers of ice maintenance equipment for use in curling rinks. Guspro will manufacture the ...

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 ...

Pond-skating season started early this year, say enthusiasts, with the first brave souls taking advantage of mid-December’s cold temperatures to glide across perfectly smooth black ice at Black Joe’s.