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Midnight Hockey: All About Beer, the Boys, and the Real Canadian Game
Midnight Hockey All About Beer the Boys and the Real Canadian Game Author:Bill Gaston From Giller-nominated author Bill Gaston, proof not only that hockey players can read, but that some of them can even write. — Midnight Hockey tells the story of Gaston?s final season, as he contemplates hanging up his skates, and looks back on the sport that has meant so much to him. — Sometimes lewd and hilarious, sometimes (though not as often)... more » reflective, Midnight Hockey is a portrait of Canada?s fastest-growing athletic phenomenon: beer-league and oldtimers? hockey. Gaston spills the beans about the rules of the game (written and unwritten), weird beer, team names, and road-trip sex, illustrated with stories of Gaston?s life in the game, from the outdoor rinks of Winnipeg, through junior hockey, varsity, the professional leagues of Europe, to the late-night games and road-trip shenanigans of beer-league.
For all those thousands of guys who drive to the rink late on a snowy night, who know the euphoria of a beer after the game, who think of how good they used to be, who grow nostalgic over a whiff from an unwashed hockey bag ? and for anyone who has had to live with such a person ? Midnight Hockey is laugh-out-loud funny, true-to-life, and ultimately thoughtful.« less