Introduction: Canada's game? Hockey and the problem of identity / Andrew C. Holman
I: Community, region, nation: hockey and the contexts of identity
Big liners and beer gardens: the Port Arthur Bear Cats, Shamateurism, and the selection controversy surrounding Canada's 1936 Olympic Hockey Team / Greg Gillespie
Are American's really hockey villains? A new perspective on the American influence on Canada's national game / Craig Hyatt and Julie Stevens
Confronting a compelling other: the summit series and the nostalgic (trans)formation of Canadian identity / Brian Kennedy
II: Forging identity through fiction
"Just part of the game": depictions of violence in hockey prose / Jason Blake
Win Orr lose: searching for the good Canadian kid in Canadian hockey fiction / Jamie Dopp
The mystery of a Canadian father of hockey stories: Leslie McFarlane's break away from the Hardy Boys / Karen E. H. Skinazi
III: Buying and selling identities: hockey as commodity
"There's more people here tonight than at a first night of the metropolitan": professional hockey spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s in New York and Toronto / Russell Field
Between a puck and a showpiece: spectator sport and the differing responses to hockey (and its absence) in Canada and the United States - a Canadian poet looks at the fate of the game / Richard Harrison
Forever proud? The Montreal Canadiens' transition from the forum to the Molson Centre / Robert Dennis
Manufacturing players and controlling sports: an interpretation of the political economy of hockey and the 2004 NHL lockout / Julian Ammirante.