Dierks Bentley Plays Ice Hockey On Nashville Pond

Dierks Bentley is one of country music's biggest hockey fans and players, as he has played on a minor league team in Nashville with friends for many years. His son, Knox, also plays the sport on a youth hockey team.

Known for his love of adventure, Dierks took to the ice during Nashville's epic eight-inch snowstorm earlier this week and has now added a layer of ice as rain and sleet fell in the Music City last night (1/18). Bentley, his son, and some friends commandeered an iced-over Nashville pond to play their favorite sport outside as temps remain in the 20s and overnight in single digits.

Dierks posted a video clip of the fun game on his Instagram. In the clip, you can see the guys easily take to the ice and dart down the pond. At one point in the video, Knox takes the puck as Bentley says, "Knox, get 'em," and his son scores. He captioned the post, "Pond hockey in #Nashville…! Big kids vs. little kids."

Many fans reacted to the post, including one who commented, "Wow, looks like fun." Another fan said, "Your kids are so very blessed! Great job mom & dad!!" One more fan wrote, "That's great memories in the making."

Bentley is entering a new phase of his life as a dad with a teenage daughter, who is sixteen and is learning to drive from Dierks himself. Not long ago, Bentley posted a funny video clip to his Instagram. In the clip, he's in the passenger seat while daughter Evie drives. The video starts with Dierks looking very concerned, and Evie says, "Okay, gas, brake, gas." Bentley says, "Where's my brake?" Then he tells his girl to make a return to a neighborhood street after she puts the car in drive. He then panics a bit and tells her to look both ways, advising her to "turn the wheel the way you want it to go."

Evie laughs and says to her dad, "This is so cool."' Dierks responds dryly, "Yeah, it's really cool."

He captioned the funny video, "Driving lessons with @eviedayb8 begin."

Many country music superstars choose their middle names over their given first names. It is hard to imagine country music superstar Sam Smith (Tim McGraw's given name) and his superstar wife, Audrey Faith Perry (Faith Hill). Or how about sold-out stadium shows from a guy named Troyal (Garth Brooks)? And instead of two Lukes (Bryan and Combs), there would be two Thomas' (Rhett and Bryan).

Many celebrities change their name to fit who they have become, but in country music, the go-to name change for a superstar is to simply go with your middle name.

We take a look at five country superstars that go by their given middle names.

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Can you image Kenny Church? Eric, born in n Granite Falls, North Carolina, was named after his father, Ken. Church worked with his dad at Clayton Marcus, a furniture upholstery company where his father was president.

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Luke was named after his father, Tommy, who was a peanut farmer in Leesburg, Georgia.

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Garth was named for his father, Troyal Raymond Brooks Jr. He is the elder Troyal's youngest child. His mother, Colleen McElroy Carroll (who passed away in 1999), was a 1950s-era country singer who recorded on Capitol Records, the same label that Garth recorded on.

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Dierks has used his middle name publically since his music career began. The name Dierks is his maternal great-grandmother's surname. His parents' names are Leon Fife Bentley (who passed away in 2012) and Catherine Childs.

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Tim McGraw was not born as a McGraw, and Timothy was his middle name. He changed his last name at age 11 when he learned the identity of his real father, major league baseball pitcher "Tug" McGraw, who passed away in 2004.