On a hot summer's day in 1998, when Dave Bidini found himself
watching Martha Stewart rather than the Stanley Cup playoffs, he
knew that something was seriously amiss: The game he loved had
crossed the line. It was now an entertainment, not a sport. A
passionate hockey fan and rec player, Bidini immediately resolved
to follow Canada's best export to the rest of the world, to find
out whether the true game still existed elsewhere.
His quest took him to a rink on the eighth floor of a shopping
mall in Hong Kong; to the gritty city of Harbin in Northern China,
where a game much like hockey has been played for six hundred
years; to Dubai in the desert of The United Arab Emirates, where
hockey is brand-new and incredulous Bedouin drop by the Al Ain rink
to wonder at the ice; and to Transylvania, where the game was
introduced in the 1920s by a ten-second newsreel of Canadians
chasing after a puck, and where it is now played as a vicarious war
between Romanians and ethnic Hungarians. In "Tropic of Hockey,"
Bidini weaves hilarious stories of encounters with rinks and
players of wildly different talents and experiences with tales of
his travels and spot-on observations about the game and
players.
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