A joyful beautifully written tribute to Canadas most salient featureshockey and highways.In the waning days of the pandemic sportswriter Ronnie Shuker stuffed his skates sticks and backpack into his faithful automobile Gumpy named for legendary goaltender Gumpy Worsley and set off on a 30000mile coasttocoasttocoast investigation of the many ways hockey touches the lives of Canadians.From St. Johns home of hockeys most colorful fatherson combo to a frigid barn in Tuktoyaktuk Northwest Territories and the worlds largest hockey stick in Duncan British Columbia Shuker finds the people and places that make hockey an indelible part of the Canadian experience. He hits famous sites of hockey lore from the cradle of the game in Windsor Nova Scotia to Brantford Ontario where streets highways schools and much else bear the name Gretzky to Vancouver site of the infamous 1994 and 2011 Canucks riots. But he also finds the game in unlikely placesamp8212crash sites greenhouses houseboats memorials backyard halls of fame even a Hutterite colonyamp8212where a seemingly endless and always engaging cast of characters including pros semipros beerleague veterans family and fans share unforgettable stories of how pucks have dented their lives.amp10amp10