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A Globe and Mail Best Book
A finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of our best sports writers.

Hockey is approaching a state of crisis in Canada. It's become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it's for so long been an integral part.

As a lifelong hockey fan and father of a young mixed-race son falling headlong in love with the game, Sean Fitz-Gerald wanted to get to the roots of these issues. His entry point: a season with the Peterborough Petes, a storied OHL team far from its former glory in a once-emblematic Canadian city that is finding itself on the wrong side of the country's changing demographics. Fitz-Gerald profiles

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      Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/10/2020
      ISBN13: 9780771024214, 978-0771024214
      ISBN10: 0771024215

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A Globe and Mail Best Book
      A finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

      A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of our best sports writers.

      Hockey is approaching a state of crisis in Canada. It's become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it's for so long been an integral part.

      As a lifelong hockey fan and father of a young mixed-race son falling headlong in love with the game, Sean Fitz-Gerald wanted to get to the roots of these issues. His entry point: a season with the Peterborough Petes, a storied OHL team far from its former glory in a once-emblematic Canadian city that is finding itself on the wrong side of the country's changing demographics. Fitz-Gerald profiles

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