This combination of ballet and murder: Al Purdy’s “Hockey Players” and the perils of making the game religion
By E. Martin Nolan (It’s best if you Read to the poem first.) How many ways are there to watch a hockey game? Judging from Al Purdy’s “Hockey Players,” there are about six[1]. The poem begins with the player’s “worry” over “broken arms and legs and/ fractured skulls opening so doctors/ can see such bloody…