Hockey Dreams - Softcover

David Adams Richards is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. His meditation on the joys of fly-fishing, Lines on the Water, published by Doubleday Canada, won the Governor General's Award in 1998. His previous non-fiction book with Doubleday Canada, Hockey Dreams, was a national bestseller. As a novelist, Richards is best known for his Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Street (1988), winner of the Governor General's Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down. His novel The Bay of Love and Sorrows, published in 1998, received widespread critical acclaim.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

If you think that you are a Canadian, then my boy I will show you I am a Canadian too- if they check me from behind I will get up, if they kick and slash I will get up.  If we play three against five for fifteen minutes I will get up.  I too am a Canadian.  They will not take this away from me.  Nor, can I see, will they ever take it away from you.  At the moment they think we are defeated we will have just begun.  I will prove forever my years on the river, on the back rinks, on the buses, on the farm teams.  I will prove forever that this is what has shaped me.