SportsLit (Season 9, Episode 3) - Ronnie Shuker (Journalist) - The Country and the Game: 30,000 Miles of Hockey Stories
About this episode
Ronnie Shuker shares his experiences and insights from traveling 30,000 miles across Canada, exploring the cultural significance of hockey.
There is an unending well of culture to draw from when it comes to hockey in Canada.Ronnie Shuker's bucket is full after driving across the country, 30,000 miles (or roughly 50,000 kilometres for you hosers!) in all. After traversing the "true north", Shuker (Editor-at-Large, The Hockey News) emptied his experiences over 244 pages giving further contemporary context to a game that exists in the bones of this nation.
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