Erm . . . Step away from that puck — One of The Four Horsemen of the Apuckalypse could ride roughshod over you :)!



My Daddy (d. 2000 RIP) Made (Helped) Me Do It!!1!



An adopted kid, I count the horseshoes on my arse the most extraordinarily unconditionally loving pair of parents picked me me me.  I got lucky (even though Daddy was a Make BeLeafer till the end!  He built and repaired boats for a living; but, his vocation?  He coached Nancy Greene and Lisa Savajarvi to the Olympic Podium . . .)



What's wrong with this pic?  See below if you don't already know . . . Plus?  Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



Dr. Jason Blake, accomplished author of the freshly released Canadian Hockey Literature (UTP), regularly contributes his encharming and empathetic outpourings to the finest hockey blog in this (or any other) world.  N-Joie our polyvalent, polymathic, and brilliantly polymythic professor's stunningly informative belle lettres when it comes to vibrantly cogent exegeses @ The Hockey Sweater or, equally, in his definitive assessment of the sport's cultural and philosophical scaffolding . . .



When it comes to *the* game — audio, visual, aural, or real-to-real — the result is invariably the same :).  Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



BENCHED (OMGASP!):  Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Wayne Johnston (The Colony of Unrequited Dreams), Paul Quarrington (King Leary), Judith Fitzgerald (The Adagios Quartet), Trent Frayne (The Mad Men of Hockey), and Jeff Z. Klein (Coolest Guys on Ice).  Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



Erm . . . Step away from that puck — One of The Four Horsemen of the Apuckalypse could ride roughshod over you :)!



Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



Erm . . . Step away from that puck — One of The Four Horsemen of the Apuckalypse could ride roughshod over you :)!



Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



Erm . . . Step away from that puck — One of The Four Horsemen of the Apuckalypse could ride roughshod over you :)!



Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



Erm . . . Step away from that puck — One of The Four Horsemen of the Apuckalypse could ride roughshod over you :)!



Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



Erm . . . Step away from that puck — One of The Four Horsemen of the Apuckalypse could ride roughshod over you :)!



BENCHED (OMGASP!):  Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Wayne Johnston (The Colony of Unrequited Dreams), Paul Quarrington (King Leary), Judith Fitzgerald (The Adagios Quartet), Trent Frayne (The Mad Men of Hockey), and Jeff Z. Klein (Coolest Guys on Ice).  Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



Erm . . . Step away from that puck — One of The Four Horsemen of the Apuckalypse could ride roughshod over you :)!



Do click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



Well, of course, the southpaw was holding the stick in his wrong hand and guess who pointed it out?  <*beam*> . . . BTW, click on this pic for a treat involving Al Purdy and Irving Layton (a.k.a. Purdytion)!



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