The Last Hockey Game
Goose Lane Editions
“The Last Hockey Game is a bold, intimate, often brilliant feat of storytelling. McDougall takes a single game, a proverbial grain of sand, and spins it into a universe.
The resulting energy illuminates not just the core, the solid centre, but the ragged outer edges of the game’s greatest franchises, the Leafs and Canadiens,
at the height of their greatness.”
Charles Wilkins, award-winning author of
Breakaway and Little Ship of Fools
It was the 6th game of the 1967 Stanley Cup finals. From the moment Foster Hewitt announced ‘Hello, Canada and hockey fans in the United States,’ the game became a turning point in sports history. That night, the Leafs would win the Cup. The next season, the National Hockey League would expand to twelve teams. Players would form an association to begin collective bargaining. Hockey would become big business. For players such as Gump Worsley, Tim Horton, Terry Sawchuk, and Eddie Shack, as well as their families, coaches, owners, and fans, the NHL of the ‘Original Six’ would be a thing of the past. It was The Last Hockey Game.