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Hartley’s guest this week is Ronnie Shuker, author, editor, freelance writer and editor at large at the Hockey News.
Shuker embarked on an eight-month cross-country journey going to rinks across Canada for his book The Country and the Game: 30,000 Miles of Hockey Stories.
During the episode, he discussed a number of topics including:
- Highlighting an eight-month coast-to-coast journey, the thought process behind it
- Who joined him on parts of the trip; finding out about the Beer League Hockey Hall of Fame
- Playing in the Guinness World Record game in India, scoring the first goal at over 14,000 feet above altitude
- Receiving national attention on the book
- Finding the Bill Barilko crash site in Northern Ontario
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