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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Smith, Stephen.     Subjects     National Hockey League -- Anecdotes.     Hockey -- Canada -- Anecdotes.     Hockey players -- Canada -- Anecdotes.     Hockey fans -- Canada -- Anecdotes.     Hockey -- Miscellanea.     Violence in sports -- Canada.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smith, Stephen.       by title:      Puck struck : distra...       by call number:      796.962 S661p     Search the Web     Smith, Stephen.     National Hockey League -- Anecdotes.     Hockey -- Canada -- Anecdotes.     Hockey players -- Canada -- Anecdotes.     Hockey fans -- Canada -- Anecdotes.     Hockey -- Miscellanea.     Violence in sports -- Canada.       MARC Display

Puck struck : distracted, delighted and distressed by Canada's hockey obsession / Stephen Smith. by Smith, Stephen. Greystone Books, [2014] Call #: 796.962 S661p Subjects National Hockey League -- Anecdotes.   Hockey -- Canada -- Anecdotes.   Hockey players -- Canada -- Anecdotes.   Hockey fans -- Canada -- Anecdotes.   Hockey -- Miscellanea.   Violence in sports -- Canada. ISBN:  9781771640480 (hc.) Alternate title:  Puckstruck : distracted, delighted and distressed by Canada's hockey obsession Description:  432 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-407)and index. Summary:  "A wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey's literature, language, and history. A journey to discover what the game has to say about who we are as Canadians. Can hockey make you a better person? What exactly is the Swedes' problem? Where did the hook check go? Should those men really be permitted to keep punching each other in the head? If hockey is the best of us, is it also the worst? Is there hope? Stephen Smith's stories have appeared in Geist and McSweeney's. He lives in Toronto, where he tends a blog, puckstruck.com, that keeps an eye on hockey culture. Puckstruck is his first book"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 796.962 S661p Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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