Contents -- Acronyms -- Introduction: Canada's Game? Hockey and the Problem of Identity -- PART ONE: COMMUNITY, REGION, NATION: HOCKEY AND THE CONTEXTS OF IDENTITY -- 1 Big Liners and Beer Gardens: The Port Arthur Bear Cats, Shamateurism, and the Selection Controversy Surrounding Canada's 1936 Olympic Hockey Team -- 2 Are Americans Really Hockey's Villains? A New Perspective on the American Influence on Canada's National Game -- 3 Confronting a Compelling Other: The Summit Series and the Nostalgic (Trans)Formation of Canadian Identity -- PART TWO: FORGING IDENTITY THROUGH FICTION -- 4 "Just part of the game": Depictions of Violence in Hockey Prose -- 5 Win Orr Lose: Searching for the Good Canadian Kid in Canadian Hockey Fiction -- 6 The Mystery of a Canadian Father of Hockey Stories: Leslie McFarlane's Break Away from the Hardy Boys -- PART THREE: BUYING AND SELLING IDENTITIES: HOCKEY AS COMMODITY -- 7 "There's more people here tonight than at a first night of the Metropolitan": Professional Hockey Spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s in New York and Toronto -- 8 Between a Puck and a Showpiece: Spectator Sport and the Differing Responses to Hockey (and Its Absence) in Canada and the United States - A Canadian Poet Looks at the Fate of the Game -- 9 Forever Proud? The Montreal Canadiens' Transition from the Forum to the Molson Centre -- 10 Manufacturing Players and Controlling Sports: An Interpretation of the Political Economy of Hockey and the 2004 NHL Lockout -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.