“Hockey is… It is human nature distilled. We take men and we compress them by putting them on ice, putting walls around them, slapping blades on their feet, and giving them sticks. Tell them, ‘Go as fast as you can,’ and chase this little puck. We force them to react under total pressure in fractions of a second. Alors, put a man's career, his reputation, and his future on the line? Calisse, you will see him revert to his bare self when he skates.”
