Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places by Dave Bidini food and then there is everything

and then there is everything else

where its roots have always been

Bidini’s encounters with odd-sized rinks and players of wildly different talents and experiences have inspired him to interweave his stories of hockey in unlikely places with funny and eyebrow-raising stories about places and players back in Canada

His paintings and drawings celebrating the female nude were deemed obscene by Ontario courts in 1965

Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places by Dave Bidini food and then there is everything8vo. pp. xix, 288. b w text illustrations. bds. dw. [Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., [2000]. New. One hot afternoon in 1998, Dave Bidini who loves hockey, watches it, plays it, and breathes it found the Stanley Cup final so tedious to watch that at one point he clicked channels to Martha Stewart and never switched back. This made him wonder where in the world the game might exist free of the complications of professional sport. He set out to find