During these sometimes bone-chilling days, many in the state look to the game of basketball for entertainment. After all, that game is played in toasty gyms.

But some face winter in a “cold indoors”  — and they have fun along the way. These are fans of the Trinity ice hockey Rocks, which plays home games at Iceland.

The ice Rocks, who have been competing since 2000, have about five weeks left in the 2016-17 regular season. They close out Feb. 24 against St. Xavier.

The Rocks past seasons have been very successful, having won five state championships since 2000 (2001, 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2011) and been runner-up five times.  This year’s 14-member team looks to the future with high hopes.

Parker Robinson, senior center and team captain, said,  “Trinity has always been a strong hockey club. Regardless of how many kids we have, we win.”

Coming off a win in the Hignite tourney in Dayton, the team has been led offensively by Robinson and Ben Huls, the latter boasting a slap shot described as “hard and scary” by sophomore teammate Chris Kolibab.

The team also has a strong defense, with Aaron Reilly and Ayden Metel towering over their competitors.

“Our strong suits would probably have to be our puck handling and our shooting,” assistant coach Conor Carroll said.

Carroll said the only problem the Rocks seem to have is that “they are a bunch of nice guys.” The team at times lacks aggressiveness and physicality.

Despite lapses at times, the coaches and players think it is realistic they can compete for a state title.

“There are seven teams in the state, and our biggest challenges are Owensboro or Northern Kentucky,” head coach Geoff Norman said.

Norman said the team can win any game if they just play the way they know how. In addition to defeating teams in Kentucky, the Rocks have this season knocked off teams from Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee.

As they prepare for the postseason, the team, according to Norman, needs “to be better at passing the puck long distances;  the puck moves faster than any defender.”