Stole This from a Hockey Card is a thinkingfans hockey book that strikes just the right note for those disillusioned by todays NHL. Chris Robinson pushes the bounds of both hockey writing and creative nonfiction in this hardboiled contemplation of where hockey fits into a mans lifewhether he be a casual beerleague player who first embraced the game to avoid a difficult homelife or one of the most celebrated defencemen in the history of the game.Partly influenced by the life of legendary Montreal Canadiens defenceman Doug Harvey Stole This from a Hockey Card probes for answers to how one of the games greatest defencemen could also lead one of the most tragic and mysterious personal lives. The book juxtaposes these investigations with the authors own humble beginnings as a troubled youth who found escape in the cardboard identities put forth by hockey cards and by his own identity as a streethockey hotshot. Another means of escape for both men became alcohol a facet of hockey culture thoroughly explored by Robinsons skeptical eye. Informing everything is Robinsons scrappyyetmeditative harshyethumorous thoughts on a game that so many Canadians love to hate or hate to love. show more