Squeak screamed like every other coach I had but somehow I don't think he was afraid of the four horsemen of the apocalypse even if he did remind me of ring wraith Nazgul with his smoker's hack and colourful vocabulary Squeak often entered the dressing room after the First Period and told us we were skating like old ladies and that our scoring production was horseshit and that we weren't hitting and it was hitting that won games because it tired the other team out to prepare for Squeak's training camp the Calgary Mustangs named after the car that was hoisted on a pedestal prairie public sculpture advertising art the way we called crude oil Texas Tea and it had nothing to do with the Beverly Hillbillies and sponsored by the local Ford dealership Maclin Ford then on McLeod Trail we took power skating with Howie Meeker's Hockey School at Rose Kohn Arena after that it was Deal Cassidy'sCalgary Booster Club Hockey School and g...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!