Here's a world-famous hockey player, Snoopy, taking on Woodstock on a frozen birdbath. Here's the world-famous "Peanuts" cartoonist, arena-builder, and organizer of "Snoopy's Senior Hockey Tournament," Charles Schulz, going into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

Growing up in St. Paul, Schulz shot tennis balls at his grandmother in the basement, coaxed his mother to make goalie pads out of gunny sacks with rolled-up newspaper sewn inside, and was enthralled when his parents took him to St. Paul Saints and Minneapolis Millers games in the 1930s. His father made a rink in the family's back yard, and Schulz and his friends also played by lamplight on frozen streets or neighborhood school rinks. Thus kindled, his love for hockey traveled with him when his cartooning career led him to California.

Schulz's five children learned to skate at the only arena in the Santa Rosa area. When the arena closed, Schulz's first wife, Joyce, convinced him to build the Redwood Empire Arena near his studio in 1969.

Schulz passed away in 2000.