Whether one loves hockey or loathes hockey, you will not find any Canadian deny the sport plays a very big role in our culture. Yet it is a fact that is very much taken for granted, and rarely studied. Jason Blake offers a significant exploration of hockey and Canada's culture in his book Canadian Hockey Literature . Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Blake, an English professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), studied Canadian hockey literature, the first in-depth study of it's kind. By that we mean hockey fiction, not hockey-friendly biographies and histories and other such non-fiction. Of course, there really isn't a great collection of hockey fiction. Up until about 25 years ago hockey fiction was almost non-existent, especially when compared to the wealth of literary gems in the baseball world. Things have really improved in recent times, thanks to the likes of Mark Jarman, Richard B. Wright, Paul Quarrington, David Adam Richards and Mordecai R...