Managing director and head coach of Marion’s Hockey Unlimited, Tim Dyer, calls the 47-year-old recreation program “organized pond hockey” at its best.

All ages can play, scores don’t matter and anyone interested can pick up a few tricks along the way.

The framework for the program is based on family-style pond and bog hockey. This is how he learned to play,and how he taught his kids to play.

“The coaches say they ‘do it for the kids,’ but we like it too,” Dyer says. “It gives us a chance for organized sports with our kids and grandkids.”

For 15 weeks from November through February, the team meets on Saturday mornings at Tabor Academy.

Dyer, who is the president of Marion-based investment company Dyer Capital Management, says his love of hockey started young.

More specifically, back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s when the Bruins were led by a hockey legend.

“Bobby Orr was big back then—and I was always into basketball—so I thought I’d go into hockey,” Dyer says.

Dyer became involved with the program more than 40 years ago. His brother-in-law used to run the program but, after he moved to Florida, Dyer says he wound up in charge.

“It kind of landed in my lap,” Dyer says.

“Almost every year I’ve had a nephew or child in the program,” Dyer says. “Hockey is not everyone’s favorite sport, but this is good exposure to it if you want to try.”

His son, T.J., started in the program 16 years ago when he was four years old. T.J. has since become a coach, when he is not studying at Northeastern University in Boston.

In December, T.J. was inducted into the Hockey Unlimited Hall of Fame.

Assistant coach Don Anderson says he has been involved for more than 20 years since his children were with the program.

Anderson, a scientist with Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institute, says although he travels often for his work, Dyer seems to bring him in every Saturday morning.

“There may be a time when I say, ‘Tim,  I’m on a flight from China and might not make it in the next morning for hockey,’ but Tim will say, ‘It’s for the kids,’ and of course I make it in,” Anderson said. “Tim is completely devoted to this group. It wouldn’t be around if it weren’t for him.”