The horror. Full-contact curling

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Let us not lament, but savor the
extra time we have to brush up on
hockey history, visit local rinks,
watch AHL games on TV, quiz our
sports knowledge, review volumes
one through six of Don Cherry’s
Rock ‘em Sock ‘em videos, and my
personal favorite, visit shut-ins and
hospital patients with a mini-theatri-
cal version of Hockey Night in
Canada’s Coach's Corner — corn-
piete with reasonable facsimiles of

Cherry and straightman Ron
MacLean.

And folks, let’s just count our
blessings. I think we all know that
local bookstores weren't always jam-
packed with the wonderful selection
of hockey-related material they now
carry.

It wasn’t too long ago that those
very same bountiful shelves sported
everything you always wanted to
know about football, baseball, curl-
ing, gymnastics and tennis. But, only
a pathetic puny token pamphlet or

two on hockey.

So come on fans, rejoice.

There are books to read. Videos
to watch. Cards to trade. Limited-
edition prints to collect. Memorabilia
to organize. Calendars to buy.
Statistics to memorize. And memo-
ries to savor.

But the best, and by far the most
self-indulgent way to help you
through this difficult time is to visit
the new Hockey Hall of Fame in
Toronto. Oh, it is a thing of beauty.
Once you're in, you don’t want to

ever come out.

You will walk through a pictorial
history of the game; see a collection
of artfully and meaningfully decorat-
ed goalie masks, and practice your
play-by-play announcing in the TSN
mock broadcast booth. The archetyp-
al voice of Foster Hewett can be
heard broadcasting an original six
playoff game (Montreal and Boston,
{ think) through an old-time radio.
And of course, there is the trophy
room, complete with the original
Stanley Cup.

Tae, Fi

night in Canada?

Of course, we'd rather be watch-
ing the game that thrills the specta-
tors, entices the young, welcomes the
aged, comforts the sick, soothes the
pained, and welcomes all.

JIM KEARNEY
WILL RETURN
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