An agnostic’s guide to our favourite game, Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture and Commerce is a collection of academic essays that question what it would call media-sponsored myths about Canada’s hockey past, while offering additional pieces that are skeptical of the game’s professional future in the United States.
Speaking as an occasional hockey writer, I was looking forward to the collection for a number of…
Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole is a freelance writer who contributes to the CBC arts website and The Globe and Mail. He is the author of The Last Hurrah: A Celebration of Hockey’s Greatest Season, ’66–’67 (Viking, 1995) and the upcoming The Canadian Hockey Atlas (Doubleday).