Index

The initial articles in titles of literary works have been ignored in the alphabetic arrangement of the index.

Entries commencing with numbers appear in the index as if the number is spelt out.

Acts of Worship” (Harrison), 202
Adams, Jack, 260, 261, 263
Aeneid (Virgil), 6, 175, 181
“African Hockey Poem #1” (Harrison), 205
“African Hockey Poem #2” (Harrison), 200
“African Hockey Poem #3” (Harrison), 207
“All-Time Game” (Harrison), 195–96
amateur ideals, 45, 51, 53, 59, 84, 154
Andrews, Paul, 276–77
“Anecdote of the Jar” (Stevens), 200
Armstrong, George, 265
Armstrong, Karen, 13, 300
arrested development, 24–25, 130–31, 135, 146–47, 264
Atwood, Margaret, 182
Aunt Phil (character). See Ryan, Phil (character)
Avery, Joanna, 229, 230–31

“Bachelors” (Maggs), 267
baggataway, 41, 45
Ballard, Harold, 155–56
Barilko, Bill, 144
Barthes, Roland, 13–14
Bartlett, Cheryl, 291
“Batman” (Harrison), 198–99
Batterinski, Felix (character): competitive drive, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124; death, 134–35, 159, 240–41; ephemeral nature of triumph, 132–33, 135; as a Faustian character, 250, 264; overview, 118; Polish heritage, 134–35, 257; sexual relationships, 122, 130–31, 147; and Terry Sawchuk, 257; as victim of his own reputation, 128–29; violence, 123, 124, 125, 127, 129
Baudelaire, Charles, 193–94
Bauer, Father David, 141
Bauman, Mark (photograph of Terry Sawchuk), 253–54, 268
Beaubien, Father Emile, 49, 51
Beers, George, 44
“Before the Moon” (McKay), 297
Béliveau, Jean, 89, 201
Bella Combe Journal (Gaston), 216, 222
Ben, Jimmie (character), 40, 281, 285
Berger, Carl, 33
Bhabha, Homi, 282
“Big Dogs 1” (Maggs), 251, 255
“Big Dogs 2” (Maggs), 255
Birney, Earle (“Canada: Case Study: 1945”), 63
Blainey, Justine, 231
Blake, Jason, 49–50, 64, 89, 117, 170, 284
Bly, Robert, 197, 208
“Bobby in Africa” (Harrison), 205
“Bobby Hull” (Harrison), 203, 204
Bonaduce, Bob (character): astuteness, 220–21; as a body-person, 214, 221–22; disability, 212, 214–15, 220, 223; enlightenment of, 212, 215, 220, 227; epigraph, 211; as husband, 213; and luck, 223, 224; music and literature, 220, 221; on pure desire, 226; relationship with his son, 212, 213, 214, 215; and the zone, 222–23
Bosmajian, Hamida, 94, 95
Boston Bruins, 1, 115, 260, 261, 262, 263
Boucher, Brian, 246
Bower, Johnnie, 264
A Boy at the Leafs Camp (Young, 1963): Bill Spunska’s Canadianization through hockey, 69–70, 133; family stereotyping, 79; hockey violence, 80–82, 83; idealization of amateur school hockey, 84; Peterborough setting, 74–75; popularity of, 64
Boy on Defense (Young, 1953): Bill Spunska’s Canadianization, 69, 70, 72, 75; Canadian northern winter, 70, 71, 72; gender, 76, 77, 78; hockey violence, 80, 81; idealization of amateur school hockey, 84; national integration, 78–79; popularity of, 64
Broad Street Bullies. See Philadelphia Flyers (Broad Street Bullies)
Brohm, Jean-Marie, 126
Brown, E. K., 57
Buddhism, 211, 212–13; acceptance and non-attachment, 215–16, 225; and Bob Bonaduce (in The Good Body) (Gaston), 212, 215, 220, 221–22, 227; Buddha figures (Gaston’s characters), 216–17, 219–20; luck, 224; mind-body synchronicity, 214, 222; teacher’s role, 217–19
Buma, Michael J., 63, 117
Burke, Tim, 132

Calgary Flames, 240
Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson), 178
The Cameraman (Gaston), 216–17
“Canada: Case Study: 1945” (Birney), 63
Canadian identity: Canadianizing effect of playing hockey, 7, 69, 70, 75, 121, 133, 273; community building, 18–19, 59; in Fifth Business (Davies), 157–58; and French Canadian version of the hockey myth, 89, 91, 92, 105; government programs promoting hockey, 63–64; Haliburton’s “healthy, hearty, virtuous” race, 33, 119; and the hockey myth, 14–15, 42, 45, 55–56, 59, 65, 75, 285; ideal model (Paul Tallard in Two Solitudes (MacLennan)), 55–56; immigrants, 67–69, 72, 73, 78–79; Indigenous people, 44, 58, 72–73, 153–54, 274; in King Leary (Quarrington), 151–53, 154, 156, 158; and muscular Christianity, 37, 38, 40–41, 42, 75, 119–20, 152; problem of Canadian literature, 57; settler identity, 34, 37, 48, 66, 71–72; small towns, 15, 19, 20, 65, 73–74, 75, 153, 158; and the Summit Series (1972), 116
Canadiens. See Montreal Canadiens (Canadiens)
Les Canadiens (Salutin), 106, 107
Carrier, Mrs. (character), 88, 90, 92–93
Carrier, Roch: Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune, 95–96, 97, 101–3, 104, 110–11, 300; La guerre, yes sir!, 99; identification with Maurice Richard, 87–88, 92–93, 96, 101, 110, 185, 299–300; Il est par là, le soleil ((Is it the Sun, Philibert?)) (Carrier), 100; Il n’y a pas de pays sans grand-père, 97–98; Our Life with the Rocket, 101, 104, 109–10, 171, 299, 300. See also “The Hockey Sweater” (Carrier)
Catholic Church: anti-hockey stance, 50, 90, 104; Carrier’s church-related beliefs, 96, 102, 103; and Draper’s “hockey liturgy” dream (in The Divine Ryans (Johnston)), 179–80, 181, 187; French-English tensions, 49, 50, 90, 92, 195; and Maurice Duplessis, 103; priest’s role in The Hockey Sweater (Carrier), 88, 92, 93, 101, 105; residential schools, 168–69, 274, 276–77; and the Ryan family (in The Divine Ryans (Johnston)), 166, 167–68, 169, 170
Chaplin, Charlie (Little Tramp character), 160
Cherry, Don, 79
Chicago Blackhawks, 267, 277
CHUMS (boys’ magazine), 145–46, 147
Clancy, Francis Michael “King”, 138–39, 154, 155
Clarke, Bobby, 116–17, 130
class: amateur ideals, 45, 51, 53, 59; and gentlemen hockey players, 32, 43–44, 45, 51, 53, 180; and poverty in the hockey myth, 121
Clinton, Clay (character), 140–41, 146, 147, 148, 149, 154–57, 158
The Clockmaker (Haliburton), 33
Cohen, Sheldon, 88
Coleman, Daniel, 34, 37, 66
colonial mimicry, 282–83
“Confessions of a Sensitive Post-Feminist male” (Harrison), 198
Connor, Ralph, 34, 66; The Man from Glengarry, 34. See also Glengarry School Days (Connor)
Connors, Stompin’ Tom (“The Hockey Song”), 11, 16–21, 28, 93, 195, 240
Cook, Méira, 166, 175
Copenace, Jacob (character), 236, 239, 241–42
Corrigan, Robert W., 160
Craven, John (character), 38–39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 285
Creighton, James, 31, 32, 90, 293
Crosby, Sidney, 144
Cruise, David, 108, 155

Davies, Robertson (Fifth Business), 156–58
“Desperate Moves” (Maggs), 260
Detroit Red Wings, 259, 260–61, 263, 267
Dhammika, Shravasti, 224
“Different Ways of Telling Time” (Maggs), 269
The Divine Ryans (Johnston): family trinity, power of, 166–68, 170–71, 174, 177, 183; hockey as ritual, 169, 179–80, 181, 186–87; loss, lessons from, 184–86; resistance, 176–77, 184. See also Ryan, Draper Doyle (character)
documentary poetry, 251. See also Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Maggs)
Dorion, Gilles, 98
Doyle, Draper (character), 6
“Driving Through the Night, the Station on Sports Talk Radio” (Harrison), 200
Dryden, Ken, 18–19, 87, 106, 107, 117, 130
Duplessis, Maurice, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108
Duplessis, Rosario (character), 73
Dupuis, Dennis, 257, 258, 261, 265

“Elegy for the Rocket” (Harrison), 201
Elias, Norbert, 126
Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune (Carrier), 95–96, 97, 101–3, 104, 110–11, 300. See also “The Hockey Sweater” (Carrier)
ethnicity. See race

“Fair Trade” (Maggs), 262
“The Famous Crouch” (Maggs), 256–57
fantasy: childhood fantasy and the moon, 2, 8, 298; of NHL stardom, 15, 89; and reality, 1, 3–4, 105; in The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare), 139
Fathers Never Leave You (Harrison), 196, 197
Faulkner, Robert, 285–86
femininity: conventional physical virtues, 76, 232, 234, 235–36; conventional roles (in hockey), 43, 58, 76, 186; and strength, 232–36, 245; Victorian angels, 43, 77, 92. See also women; women’s hockey
feminism, 196–97, 285–86
Fifth Business (Davies), 156–58
Findley, Timothy (The Wars), 146
First Nations people: baggataway (and lacrosse), 41, 44; blind spots in Canadian hockey literature, 44, 58; and gentlemen players, 45; George Muskrat (in Fifth Business (Davies)), 158; and the hockey myth, 7, 153–54, 273, 274, 276, 278, 279–82, 285; Northwest hockey team (in Young’s juvenile hockey trilogy), 68; residential schools, 169, 274, 276–77, 282–83. See also Ozikean, Manny (character)
“The First Wife” (Maggs), 255
Fischler, Stan, 82–83
Fischman, Sheila (translator of “The Hockey Sweater” (Carrier)), 95–96
Fisher, Rhonda L. Fisher, 161, 184
Fisher, Seymour, 161, 184
fool figures, 161–62, 174–75
Foran, Charles, 103
Fournier (character), 219–20, 221
Fowles, John, 8, 274
Foxy (character), 35–36, 38, 43
Frayne, Trent, 203, 205
Freud, Sigmund, 160, 179, 180, 181
Frost, Robert (“The Oven Bird” (Frost)), 252–53
Frye, Marilyn, 286
“Fury on Ice” (MacLennan), 47, 60

Gaston, Bill: Bella Combe Journal, 216, 222; The Cameraman, 216–17; Midnight Hockey, 224; “Saving Eve’s Father”, 224–25, 226–27; Tall Lives, 216. See also The Good Body (Gaston)
gender. See femininity; masculinity; women; women’s hockey
gentlemen hockey players, 32, 43–44, 45, 51, 53, 180
Glengarry School Days (Connor): class, 43–44; epigraph, 31; First Nations people, 44; gender, 35, 36–37, 43, 58; hockey match, 4, 33, 38–41, 42, 43; and the hockey myth, formation of, 33, 42, 45, 59; Murray, Hughie (character), 34–36, 38, 39–40, 43; muscular Christianity, 36–38, 43; and Scott Young, 66; setting, 34
Golden Jet. See Hull, Bobby (The Golden Jet)
The Good Body (Gaston), 211, 212–13, 219–20, 221. See also Bonaduce, Bob (character)
Gordon, Mr. (character), 77–78
Gordon, Pete (character): national allegory, 65–67, 70, 73; small town rinks, 75; taken out by Bill, 80, 233; in That Old Gang of Mine, 70; winter readiness, 71–72; and Young’s gender stereotyping, 76, 78, 79; Young’s treatment of race, 73
Gordon, Rev. Dr. Charles William (pseudonym Ralph Connor). See Connor, Ralph
Gordon, Sarah (character), 76
“The Greats” (Harrison), 191, 202
Griffiths, Allison, 155
Gruneau, Richard, 14–15, 32, 64, 65, 68, 127–28, 140, 143
La guerre, yes sir! (Carrier), 99

Hagen, Steve, 215–16, 218
Hal (character), 232–33, 237, 241
Haliburton, Robert Grant, 33, 119
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 33, 72
Hall, Donald, 36, 37
Hall, Glenn, 259, 260, 263
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 165, 170
happy warrior trope, 22–23, 234
Hardy, Stephen, 42
Harrison, Richard: father-son relationships, 197, 202, 206, 208; post-feminist views of masculinity, 197–99; “Rhéaume”, 238; superheroes, 198–99; 25: Hockey Poems New and Revised (Harrison), 192. See also Fathers Never Leave You (Harrison); Hero of the Play (Harrison); Recovering the Naked Man (Harrison)
Harvey, Doug, 108
Hedley, Cara, 140, 148, 151, 152–53. See also Twenty Miles (Hedley)
Henderson, Paul (golden goal), 116, 132
Herman, Judith, 173–74, 288, 291
“The Hero in Overtime” (Harrison), 206–7
The Hero of the Play (Harrison): Bobby Hull poems, 6, 192, 203, 205–7, 208–9; cover art, 194–95; editions, 192; father-son relationships, 202, 206, 209; hockey as poetry (in “All-Time Game”), 195–96; mythic elements, 200–201; prose form, 192–93; subjectivity of heroism, 210; title, meanings, 194; poems: “Acts of Worship”, 202; “African Hockey Poem #1”, 205; “African Hockey Poem #2”, 200; “African Hockey Poem #3”, 207; “All-Time Game”, 195–96; “Bobby in Africa”, 205; “Driving Through the Night, the Station on Sports Talk Radio”, 200; “Elegy for the Rocket”, 201; “The Greats”, 191, 202; “Love and the Hockey Pool”, 209; “Maurice”, 201; “My Father’s Face”, 202; “My Favourites (The National Game)”, 206; “Reunion or Grieving” (Harrison), 206, 208–9; “Rhéaume”, 238; “Stanley Cup”, 207; “The Hero in Overtime”, 206–7; “This Is My Hockey”, 202, 206; “The View from the Top”, 200
Herrigel, Eugen, 217, 218
Hirsch, Edward, 193, 209
Hobbs, Roy (character), 143–44, 159, 233
hockey, history of, 31–32, 44–45, 49–50, 90
hockey myth, 4, 5, 8, 13, 14–15, 28; approaches to, 11–12, 15–16, 28; Bobby Clarke’s slash (1972), 117; boys becoming men, 24, 127, 130, 146–47, 213; and Canadian (white) identity, 14–15, 42, 45, 55–56, 59, 65, 75, 285; consolidation of, 45, 47, 63–64; formation of and Glengarry School Days (Connor), 33, 42, 45, 59; French Canadian version, 89, 91, 92, 105–6, 107, 108–9; hockey as religion (in “Hockey Players” (Purdy)), 25–26; and immigrants, 73, 133; and Indigenous people, 7, 153–54, 273, 274, 276, 278, 279–82, 285; Leary’s quest for mythic status (King Leary (Quarrington)), 150, 151, 163; masculine identity, limits of (in The Last Season (MacGregor)), 128–29; masculinity’s false promises (in King Leary (Quarrington)), 138, 145–47, 150; and muscular Christianity, 42, 128, 298; natural talent (in King Leary (Quarrington)), 141, 143–44, 233; northern geography, 14, 26–27, 71, 75, 120, 139, 273; outdoor ice, 140, 142, 275; and poverty, 121; Québécois version, 89, 93, 107, 108, 300; selectivity of, 21, 229, 231; small towns, 15, 60, 65, 72–73, 75, 88–89, 119–21; themes of, 14; in Two Solitudes (MacLennan), 55, 59, 60; violence, role in hockey (in Young’s juvenile hockey trilogy), 65, 79–84, 285; and women’s hockey, 229, 230
“Hockey Players” (Purdy): arrested development, 147, 264; critical imaginings, 4, 11, 16, 21–27, 28, 60; financial motivation, 24, 209, 250; hockey as an escape from life, 131
“The Hockey Song” (Stompin Tom Connors), 11, 16–21, 28, 93, 195, 240
“The Hockey Sweater” (Carrier): artwork featuring the Montreal Canadiens, 195; Catholic clergy in, 88, 92, 93, 101, 105; ending, 88, 93; historical discrepancies, 110; innocent portrayal of hockey, 93–95; plot, 87–88, 91–92; political significance, 106; popularity, 88; Quebec setting and evocation of English-French tensions, 89–92; title (in English and French), 95–96, 97
“Hole in the Hat” (Maggs), 258, 259
Holman, Andrew, 42, 49–50, 51, 89
Homer, allusion to, 200
homosexuality, 43, 148, 173, 180, 184, 235
Howe, Gordie, 23, 82–83, 127, 128, 201–2, 239, 261
Howell, Colin, 31, 52–53, 79
Hughes Inquiry, 169
Hughes, Thomas (Tom Brown’s School Days), 34, 36, 37, 41, 52
Huizinga, Johan, 239
Hull, Bobby (The Golden Jet): fall from grace, 204–5; as a Faustian character, 250; and his sons, 204–5, 206; on hockey as business (epigraph), 191; poems by Richard Harrison, 6, 192, 203, 205–7, 208–9; puck associations (in The Divine Ryans (Johnston)), 180
Hull, Joanne, 204

Iain (character), 161–62
Il est par là, le soleil ((Is it the Sun, Philibert?) (Carrier)), 100
Il n’y a pas de pays sans grand-père (Carrier), 97–98
Indian Horse, Saul (character), 7; abuse at the Catholic residential school, 274, 289, 290; healing journey, 274, 288–90, 291–92, 298; hockey’s religious aura, 275, 276; hockey talent, 274; hockey violence and Saul’s downfall, 284, 285, 286, 287–88; hockey vision, 277–78, 284; (lost) connection to his homeland, 278; optimistic reimagination of hockey, 274–75, 291, 293, 298–99; racism in hockey, 274, 276, 280, 282, 283, 284; rise to prominence, 279–82
Indian Horse (Wagamese), 7, 273, 292–93. See also Indian Horse, Saul (character)
Indigenous people, 31. See also First Nations people
“Initia Gentis” (Maggs), 256, 257–58
Is it the Sun, Philibert? ((Il est par là, le soleil) (Carrier)), 100
“I Wanted to be a Soldier” (Harrison), 197–98

Jenkinson, Dave, 118
Johnston, Wayne. See The Divine Ryans (Johnston)
Joliat, Aurèle, 56
Joyce, Gare, 204
juvenile fiction, 64

Kendall, Brian, 257, 265
Kennedy, Ted, 82–83
Keon, Dave, 260
Kharlamov, Valeri, 116–17, 132
King Lear (Shakespeare), 137, 139, 148, 161
King Leary (Quarrington), 5; Canadian identity, 151–53, 154, 156, 158; comic spirit, 159–63; elements from King Arthur mythology, 141, 143; First Nations people, 153–54; “Leary & Clinton and Their Various Fabulous Adventures”, 146, 147; moon, 142, 297, 298; small town values, satirization of, 153. See also Leary, Percival “King” (character)
Kingsley, Charles: Two Years Ago, 36, 37; The Water-Babies (Kingsley), 37
Kistabish, John, 277
Koz (character), 216–17
Kurtenbach, Orland, 267

lacrosse, 41, 44–45
“The Last Faceoff” (Maggs), 265
The Last Season (MacGregor), 5, 33, 118, 120–21, 240–41. See also Batterinski, Felix (character)
Leacock, Stephen, 119, 153
Leafs. See Toronto Maple Leafs (Leafs)
“Leary & Clinton and Their Various Fabulous Adventures”, 146, 147
Leary, Percival “King” (character), 5–6; belief in the hockey myth, 140; and Canadian identity, 151–53, 158; and Chaplin’s Little Tramp character, 160; and Clay Clinton, 155, 157, 158; family relationships, 147–48; as a Faustian character, 250; and the fictional Stanley Cup game (1919), 144; and Francis Michael “King” Clancy, 138–39; hockey as a natural phenomenon, 140; nickname (“Loof-weeda, ”), 141, 149–50, 151; reform school education, 140–43; revelation and atonement, 159, 161–62, 163; and Roy Hobbs (The Natural (Malamud)), 143–44, 233; treatment of Manny, 147, 149, 150, 154, 159, 162; and World War I, 138, 145, 152
Leith, Linda, 48
Lesage, Jean, 109
“Let’s Go Dancing” (Maggs), 259
Lindsay, Ted, 108, 155, 263
Livesay, Dorothy, 251
Lorenz, Stacey, 79
“Love and the Hockey Pool” (Harrison), 209
luck, 223–25, 259–60
Lumley, Harry, 259

McCurdy, Bruce (Maggs interview), 251, 252
MacDonald, Ranald (character), 34
MacFarlane, John, 17
MacGregor, Roy: autobiographical details, 18–19, 117–18. See also The Last Season (MacGregor)
McKay, Don (“Before the Moon”), 297
McKegney, Sam, 274, 283, 292
Mackey, Eva, 68
McKinley, Michael, 31, 32, 51, 71, 108
MacLennan, Hugh: autobiographical details, 55; “Fury on Ice”, 47, 60. See also Two Solitudes (MacLennan)
Maggs, Randall. See Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Maggs)
Malamud, Bernard (The Natural), 143–44, 159, 233
The Man from Glengarry (Connor), 34, 44
manhood. See masculinity
Manitoba Bison Women’s Hockey team, 231
Maple Leaf Gardens, 155
Maple Leafs. See Toronto Maple Leafs (Leafs)
Marlowe, Christopher (The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus), 249, 269–70, 271
Maroons. See Montreal Maroons (Maroons)
Marshall, Albert, 291
Marshall, Murdena, 291
Martin, Paul, 192, 193, 200, 251
Martin, Sandra (obituary of Stompin’ Tom Connors), 16–17
masculinity: appropriate levels of violence in hockey, 80–84, 127, 285; backyard rink construction, 2; English public schools, 53; false promises (in King Leary (Quarrington)), 138, 145–47, 150; farting and belching, 150; hockey making boys men, 24, 127, 130, 146–47, 213; and homosexuality, 43, 148, 184; ideals of (explored in Richard Harrison’s poetry), 197–99, 200, 202, 208; “John Wayne” model (Gruneau and Whitson), 56, 127–28; limits of the myth of masculine identity (in The Last Season (MacGregor)), 128–29; “men’s movement”, 196–97; modesty, 35, 36, 78; parodied in Twenty Miles (Hedley), 234–35, 237; patriarchy, 37, 77–78; suppression of emotion (“keep it off the ice”), 82, 231–32, 239; “winning ugly” (Bobby Clarke’s 1972), 117. See also muscular Christianity
Masterton, Bill, 23
Maté, Gabor, 13, 288
“Maurice” (Harrison), 201
Melançon, Benoît, 106
men’s movement, 196–97
Methuen, Heather (character), 54, 58
Midnight Hockey (Gaston), 224
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare), 179
Milbury, Mike, 246
Miller, J. Hillis, 12, 42
Millson, Jane, 154
Montreal Canadiens (Canadiens): cover art, 19, 195; in The Divine Ryans (Johnston), 169, 171, 180, 184–85; francophone identity, 50, 89, 90, 92, 108; in “The Hockey Sweater” (Carrier), 92, 94, 96, 105, 195; Les Canadiens (Salutin), 106, 107; and the Original Six era of the NHL, 90, 91, 94, 108, 109; Stanley Cup tournament (1955), 260; wives and girlfriends, 130. See also Richard, Maurice (The Rocket)
Montreal Maroons (Maroons), 90, 91
Montreal Rules, 32, 42
Montreal Wanderers, 90
moon: Carrier’s title, Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune, 96, 111, 297, 299; and ice rinks, 2–3, 142, 297; symbolism in Indian Horse (Wagamese), 289–90, 297–98
Moore, Benny (character), 79, 80–81, 82, 83, 128, 250, 281
Morenz, Howie, 56, 106, 156, 183, 184
Morrow, Don, 45
Mountain Interval (“The Oven Bird” (Frost)), 252–53
Mount Cashel Orphanage scandal, 168–69
multicultural pluralism, 16, 57, 68, 73
Munro, Archibald (character), 35
Murray, Hughie (character), 34–36, 38, 39–40, 43
muscular Christianity: Bill Spunska (Young’s juvenile hockey trilogy), 128; Canadian identity, 37, 38, 40–41, 42, 75, 119–20, 152; and class, 43; First Nations people, 44; and the hockey myth, 42, 298; northern climate, 37, 41, 75, 141; physical and spiritual strength, 36, 141, 168, 186, 276; and the role of hockey in residential schools, 276; Victorian social values, 37
“My Father’s Face” (Harrison), 202
“My Father’s Goodbye” (Harrison), 198
“My Favourites (The National Game)” (Harrison), 206
myths, 13–14, 299–300; classical illusions (in The Divine Ryans (Johnston)), 6, 172, 173, 175, 181, 182; in Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune (Carrier), 97; in Hero of the Play (Harrison), 6, 192, 200–201, 205, 209; King Arthur, 141, 143; Maurice “the Rocket” Richard, 91, 105–6, 107, 109, 110, 185; Morenz’s cause of death, 156, 184; sports journalism (as myth-making), 118, 203; Vimy Ridge, Battle of, 152. See also hockey myth

National Hockey League (NHL): Bobby Hull, 203–4, 207, 209; as Canadian institution, 14; childhood fantasies, 15, 89; Donald Draper (in The Divine Ryans (Johnston)), 180; early Anglophone bias, 50, 90; expansion of, 115, 135; in King Leary (Quarrington), 139, 144, 149, 152; Original Six era, 5, 90–91, 94, 107–9, 195, 230, 263; and Paul Tallard (in Two Solitudes (MacLennan)), 55; sexism, 246; Stanley Cup, 51; Super Series ’76, 131; women’s hockey, 230; working conditions and players’ rights, 109, 155, 261, 262, 263, 270–71. See also individual teams
national identity. See Canadian identity
The Natural (Malamud), 143–44, 159, 233
“Neither Rhyme Nor Reason” (Maggs), 254–55
Nesterenko, Eric, 267–68, 271
“New York Hospital: I.C.U.” (Maggs), 268–69, 270
NHL. See National Hockey League (NHL)
“Night Time” (Maggs), 255
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Maggs), 6–7, 251–54, 263–64, 269, 270; poems: “Bachelors”, 267; “Big Dogs 1”, 251, 255; “Big Dogs 2”, 255; “Desperate Moves”, 260; “Different Ways of Telling Time”, 269; “Fair Trade”, 262; “The Famous Crouch”, 256–57; “The First Wife”, 255; “Hole in the Hat”, 258, 259; “Initia Gentis”, 256, 257–58; “The Last Faceoff”, 265; “Let’s Go Dancing”, 259; “Neither Rhyme Nor Reason”, 254–55; “New York Hospital: I.C.U.”, 268–69, 270; “Night Time”, 255; “Nothing but Moonlight Here”, 262; “The Question for Harry”, 259; “River of Ponds”, 267, 268, 271; “The Season of Wayward Thinking”, 266; “Sheet Metal”, 256; “Sir This or That”, 258–59; “Solid Ground”, 261–62; “The Last Faceoff”, 265; “Tidal Fears”, 264; “Tunnel to Windsor”, 266–67; “Writing on the Walls”, 258
Norris, Isabel “Iz” (character): “Barbie” nickname, 233–34; experience of playing with boys, 232, 238, 239; on highlight reels, 18, 229, 231, 240; and Jacob, 236, 239, 241–42; motivation for playing hockey, 6, 242–45; physical appearance, 235–36; physicality, 232–33
Northern Electric Verdun, 230
northern geography, 14, 15; acquisition of Canadian identity, 7, 73, 273; anti-hockey myth, 26–27, 120; communal identity, 18–19; and Haliburton’s “healthy, hearty, virtuous” race, 33, 72, 119; and muscular Christianity, 37, 41, 75, 141; winter, settler and immigrant identities (in Young’s juvenile hockey trilogy), 71–72, 73; winter as a symbol of death (in King Leary (Quarrington)), 139–40, 141
Norworth, Jack (“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”), 20
“Nothing but Moonlight Here” (Maggs), 262
Novak, Michael, 21, 126–27, 150–51, 159, 253

O’Brien, J. Ambrose, 90
Oliver, Mary, 264
oralysis, 175, 176, 177, 180
Oriard, Michael, 1, 3, 4, 18, 135, 143, 191
Orr, Bobby, 117, 144; in The Last Season (MacGregor), 125, 128
Osborne, Geraint, 79
Ottawa Senators, 17, 138
Our Life with the Rocket (Carrier), 101, 104, 109–10, 171, 299, 300
“Out of Costume” (Harrison), 198
“The Oven Bird” (Frost), 252–53
Ozikean, Manny (character), 145; as a First Nations character, 154, 158, 159; Leary’s treatment of, 147, 149, 150, 154, 159, 162; snowball scene, 157; sporting accomplishments, 148–49

patriarchy, 37, 77–78
Philadelphia Flyers (Broad Street Bullies): Super Series ’76, 119, 132; in The Last Season (MacGregor), 5, 118, 123, 133, 135; violence in hockey, 115, 117, 124; wives and girlfriends, 130. See also Schultz, Dave
Phillips, Trevor J., 274, 283
Plante, Jacques (Sawchuk interview), 260
Poulin, Marie-Philip, 245, 246
professional hockey: Anglophone bias/privilege, 50, 51; Athanase Tallard’s team (in Two Solitudes (MacLennan)), 49; and conservative/critical imaginings, 19, 20, 24; Paul Tallard (in Two Solitudes (MacLennan)), 54–56, 58, 59–60; and somnambulism, 212. See also amateur ideals; National Hockey League (NHL)
Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL), 245
prose poetry, 192–94. See also The Hero of the Play (Harrison)
pucks (symbolism and significance), 166, 172, 178–80, 226
Purdy, Al (“Hockey Players”). See “Hockey Players” (Purdy)
PWHL. See Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL)

Quarrington, Paul. See King Leary (Quarrington)
Queen’s University women’s hockey team, 230
“The Question for Harry” (Maggs), 259

race: immigrant identities and Canadian identity, 72, 73; multiculturalism in Young’s juvenile hockey trilogy, 16, 68, 72–73; stereotypes, 73, 146. See also First Nations people
reality: Buddhism, 216; create/reveal dichotomy, 12, 42; and fantasy, 1, 3–4, 105
Recovering the Naked Man (Harrison), 196, 197–99; poems: “Batman”, 198–99; “Bobby Hull”, 203, 204; “Confessions of a Sensitive Post-Feminist male”, 198; “I Wanted to be a Soldier”, 197–98; “My Father’s Goodbye”, 198; “Out of Costume”, 198
religion: euphoria of athletic achievement, 151; hockey as (in “Hockey Players” (Purdy)), 25–26; and mythic thinking, 13; religious feeling (in “The Hockey Song” (Stompin’ Tom Connors)), 21; and sexuality, 173, 184. See also Buddhism; Catholic Church; muscular Christianity
“Reunion or Grieving” (Harrison), 206, 208–9
“Rhéaume” (Harrison), 238
Rhéaume, Manon, 238
Richard, Maurice (The Rocket), 87; in Il est par là, le soleil (Carrier), 100; myth of, 91, 105–6, 107, 109, 110; poems in The Hero of the Play (Harrison), 195, 201; and Roch Carrier, 87–88, 92–93, 96, 101, 110, 185, 299–300; suspension (1955), 260; workers’ rights, 109
Richard Riot, 23, 82, 101, 260
“River of Ponds” (Maggs), 267, 268, 271
Robertson, John, 116
Robidoux, Michael, 41, 42, 44
Rocket. See Richard, Maurice (The Rocket)
Ross, Brigadier-General A. E., 152
Ryan, Donald (character): mystery of his death, 165, 166, 172, 179, 180, 182–84, 185, 188; pucks, significance, 178–79; sacrifice of, 167; sexuality, 173, 180, 184; son, relationship with, 172–73, 178, 184
Ryan, Draper Doyle (character): Apuckalypse dream, 172, 180–82, 184–85; and the family trinity, power of, 166, 167, 168, 170–71, 174, 177, 183; father, relationship with, 172–73, 178, 184; as hero, 183–84, 191–92; as hockey fan, 171, 180, 185; hockey liturgy dream, 179–80, 181, 187; as hockey player, 171–72, 185; mystery of his father’s death, 165, 166, 172, 179, 180, 182–84, 185, 188; nightmares and bedwetting, 175–76; oralysis sessions, 175, 176, 177
Ryan, Father Seymour (character), 166, 168, 169, 170, 187
Ryan, Linda (character), 177
Ryan, Mary, 177, 185–86, 192, 201
Ryan, Phil (character), 166, 167–68, 169, 170, 174, 177, 183
Ryan, Reginald (character), 167, 169, 174–75, 176, 177, 180, 183

Salutin, Rick (Les Canadiens), 106, 107
Sanders, T. C., 36
Sasakamoose, Fred, 277
“Saving Eve’s Father” (Gaston), 224–25, 226–27
Sawchuk, Terry, 7; alcoholism and depression, 250, 255, 257, 261; competitive drive, 257, 258, 264; death, 254, 265, 267, 268, 269; death of his brother, Mitch, 257; family background, 256; as a Faustian character, 250, 264, 269, 270; injuries, 250, 253–54, 258–59, 260, 264, 265, 268; marriage, 266, 267; price of hockey success, 250–51, 262, 266, 271; Stanley Cup tournament (1967), 263, 264, 265. See also Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Maggs)
Schultz, Dave: competitive drive, 123–24; ephemeral nature of triumph, 132–33; and Felix Batterinski (The Last Season (MacGregor)), 118, 119, 124, 125, 128, 129, 132; psychological response to violence, 115, 125–26; reputation, 129; on wives and girlfriends, 130
Scrubs on Skates (Young, 1952): Canadian northern winter, 70, 71, 72; gender, 76, 77, 78; idealization of amateur school hockey, 84; multiculturalism, 16, 73; national allegories (settler and immigrant identities), 65–69; popularity of, 64; small town rinks, 75; violence in hockey, 80, 233, 285
“The Season of Wayward Thinking” (Maggs), 266
Sex Is Red (“Saving Eve’s Father” (Gaston)), 224–25, 226–27
Shabogeesick (character), 278, 289, 292, 293
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet, 165, 170; King Lear, 137, 139, 148, 161; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 179; The Winter’s Tale, 139
Shannon, Danny (character), 122–23, 129
“Sheet Metal” (Maggs), 256
shinny, 31, 39, 45
Shore, Eddie, 80, 195
“Sir This or That” (Maggs), 258–59
small towns: Canadian identity, 15, 19, 20, 65, 73–74, 75, 153, 158; critical imaginings (Pomerania in The Last Season (MacGregor)), 120–21; hockey myth, 15, 60, 65, 72–73, 75, 88–89, 119–21; poverty, 120, 121; racism and the magical powers of hockey, 280–81; “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (Norworth and Von Tilzer), 20, 21; “The Hockey Sweater” (Carrier), 93–94
Smith, James A. K., 187
Smith, James Steel, 64, 94
Smythe, Conn, 65, 90, 91, 108, 138, 154–55
“Solid Ground” (Maggs), 261–62
space fantasies, 2
Spunska, Bill (character): Canadian immigrant identity, 66, 68–69, 73, 78, 133–34; Canadian northern winter, 71, 72; and Felix Batterinski (The Last Season (MacGregor)), 118, 119, 124, 128, 133–34, 135; hockey violence, 80, 81–82, 83, 128, 233, 285; idealistic model for hockey success, 5, 119, 250; Peterborough setting, 74; small town rink, 75; and Young’s gender stereotyping, 76–77, 79
Spunska, Mr. (character), 78
Spunska, Mrs. (character), 77
Stanley Cup: in The Divine Ryans (Johnston), 180–81, 184–85; in The Hero of the Play (Harrison), 200, 206–7; in “The Hockey Song” (Stompin’ Tom Connors), 17, 19; in King Leary (Quarrington), 144; in The Last Season (MacGregor), 118, 130, 135, 240; NHL acquisition, 51; and Terry Sawchuk, 250, 260, 263, 264; winning teams, 65, 94, 110, 115, 117, 260, 263
“Stanley Cup” (Harrison), 207
Starblanket, Noel, 276
Staunton, Percy Boyd “Boy” (character), 156–57
Stevens, Julie, 229, 230–31
Stevens, Wallace (“Anecdote of the Jar”), 200
Stewart, Ron, 265, 267
Stompin’ Tom Connors (“The Hockey Song”), 11, 16–21, 28, 93, 195, 240
Storey, Red, 251, 254–55
Summit Series (1972), 115–17, 132, 204
Super Series ’76, 131–32
Sutherland, Captain James, 145

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (Norworth and Von Tilzer), 20
Tallard, Athanase (character), 48–49, 50, 51, 53, 56
Tallard, Paul (character), 51, 52, 53–56, 56–57, 58, 59–60, 285
Tall Lives (Gaston), 216
Tampa Bay Lightning, 238
Team Canada, 141; Summit Series (1972), 115–17
Terkel, Studs (Nesterenko interview), 267–68, 271
That Old Gang of Mine (Young), 70, 250
“This Is My Hockey” (Harrison), 202, 206
“Tidal Fears” (Maggs), 264
Tilzer, Albert Von (“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”), 20
Tom Brown’s School Days (Hughes), 34, 36, 37, 41, 52
Toronto Maple Leafs (Leafs): cover art, 19, 195; in The Divine Ryans (Johnston), 169; formation of, 90–91, 154; and Francis Michael “King” Clancy, 138, 154; and Harold Ballard, 155–56; and “The Hockey Song” (Stompin’ Tom Connors), 17, 19, 195; and The Hockey Sweater (Carrier), 88, 91, 93, 94, 96, 105, 110; in Il est par là, le soleil (Carrier), 100; Maple Leaf Gardens arena, 155; ownership, 65, 154; and Saul Indian Horse (in Indian Horse (Wagamese)), 279–80; Stanley Cup victory (1967), 263Rg check for more; and Young’s juvenile hockey trilogy, 65, 69, 74
totsis, 234
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (Marlowe), 249, 269–70, 271
Tremblay, Tony (Gaston interview), 211
tricksters, 174–75, 217
Trungpa, Chögyam, 214, 218, 219
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015), 169, 283
“Tunnel to Windsor” (Maggs), 266–67
25: Hockey Poems New and Revised (Harrison), 192
Twenty Miles (Hedley): double standards and the university’s support of women’s hockey, 236–38; femininity and strength, 232–36; “keep it off the ice”, 231–32, 239, 240, 243; setting, 231; Terry’s death, 241. See also Norris, Isabel “Iz” (character)
two-eyed seeing, 291–92
Two Solitudes (MacLennan): blind spots, 57–58; French game, 48–50, 56; and the hockey myth, 48, 55, 59–60; idealization of Paul Tallard, 53–54, 285; Paul Tallard’s education, 50–53, 56; Paul Tallard’s professional hockey career, 54–56, 58, 59–60; publication and early reception, 48
Two Years Ago (Kingsley), 36

“The View from the Top” (Harrison), 200
Vigneault, Michel, 49
Vimy Ridge, Battle of, 152
violence: appropriate level (in Young’s juvenile hockey trilogy), 65, 79–84, 285; celebration (in “Fury on Ice” (MacLennan)), 47, 60; Dave Schultz, 115, 118, 123–24, 125–26, 129; death of Bill Masterton, 23; fragility of reputation, 128–29; honour and the code, 40, 41, 65, 116, 126–27, 281, 284–85; ideals of muscular Christianity, 41; metaphorical choice of violent players (in “All-Time Game” (Harrison)), 195–96; NHL expansion, 115; normalization of, 117; physicality in women’s hockey, 231–32, 232–33; and reputation, 128–29; Saul Indian Horse, downfall of (in Indian Horse (Wagamese)), 284, 285, 286, 287–88; subversion of happy warrior trope (“Hockey Players” (Purdy)), 22–23; Team Canada (Summit Series 1972), 115, 116–17
Von Tilzer, Albert (“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”), 20

Wagamese, Richard. See Indian Horse (Wagamese)
Walton, Shirley (Sawchuk interview), 268
The Wars (Findley), 146
The Water-Babies (Kingsley), 37
Watterson, Bill (Calvin and Hobbes), 178
Western Hockey League, 51
Whitson, David, 14–15, 32, 64, 65, 68, 127–28, 140, 143
“winning ugly”, 116–17
The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare), 139
Wiseman, Richard, 224
women: ‘gurl’ teachers (in Glendarry School Days (Connor)), 35, 38, 43; sexual activity (double bind), 286–87; wives and girlfriends, 122, 130–31, 147–48, 204, 213. See also femininity; women’s hockey
women’s hockey: double-standards, 236–38, 245–46; femininity and strength, 232–36, 245; history of, 229–31, 245; “keeping it off the ice”, 231–32, 239, 240, 243, 246
Wong, Benny (character), 68, 73, 281
World Hockey Association, 115, 203
“Writing on the Walls” (Maggs), 258

Yalom, Irvin D., 176
Young, Scott: Canadianizing effect of playing hockey, 69, 70; gender and family stereotypes, 76–79; hockey violence, 65, 79–84, 285; journalism, 64–65; multiculturalism, 16, 68, 72–73; northern climate as setting, 70–72; settler and immigrant identities, 65–69, 72, 73, 78–79; small town rinks, 73–75; That Old Gang of Mine, 70, 250
Yun, Hsing, 216

Zen. See Buddhism
the zone, 222–23, 259, 278