That masterpiece, The Hockey Sweater, captured enough hearts in Canada to earn its first line a place on the five-dollar bill for many years. But the Montreal Canadiens play the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight-their first playoff meeting since 1979-so I’m thinking of Carrier, a literary giant of Quebec, and of the charming sports story he wrote that same year. I am, at the moment, wearing a muscle tank. I suppose it’s the wrong time of year for Roch Carrier, who opens his most famous work by evoking winter.
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