Publication Credits

Some material in this book was previously published, as follows:

An earlier version of chapter 3 appeared as “Hugh MacLennan and the Two Solitudes of Hockey” in Studies in Canadian Literature 47, no. 1 (2022): 279–84. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared as “Boys on the Defensive: Scott Young and the Myths of Hockey” in the proceedings of the Putting It on Ice III: Constructing the Hockey Family conference held at Saint Mary’s University, in Halifax, July 12–14, 2012. Some of my views on hockey and religion first appeared in my article “(Mis)Deeds of Gods and Heroes: Religion and the Suspension of Disbelief in the Summit Series,” in Coming Down the Mountain: Rethinking the 1972 Summit Series, edited by Brian Kennedy, 217–38 (Hamilton, ON: Wolsak and Wynn, 2014). My early thoughts about King Leary (the focus of chapter 7) appeared in “Win Orr Lose: Searching for the Good Canadian Kid in Canadian Hockey Fiction,” in Canada’s Game: Critical Perspectives on Hockey, edited by Andrew C. Holman, 81–97 (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009). An earlier version of chapter 10 appeared as “Hockey, Zen and the Art of Bill Gaston’s The Good Body,” in Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology of Canadian Sports Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, 93–106 (Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2018). I first tried out the thesis that I develop in chapter 12 in a review of Randall Maggs’s Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems called “The Face Before the Mask,” in The Fiddlehead 238 (Winter 2009): 112–14. Thank you to all the editors, journals, and presses who published these earlier elements of this book.