Acknowledgments

 

Thanks to my wife, Marcie, for her love and support, and for allowing me to watch hockey every single night for the last four years “because it's for work” without ever once pointing out that I watched hockey every single night for the twelve years before that too.

Thanks to my parents, Bob and Judi McIndoe, for believing I could be a writer someday even when I'd given up on the idea for the better part of a decade.

Thanks to my daughter Erica and my son Douglas, for being the two funniest people I've ever met.

Additional thanks to Bruce Arthur, Jim Bray, and Guy Spurrier at the National Post; to Bob McKenzie for being nice to people he does not recognize; and to the many others who have supported me in various ways over the course of this project, including James Duthie, Greg Wyshynski, Allan Walsh, Katie Baker, Sean Pronger, Dan Murphy, Dave Naylor, Tim Micallef, Jim Lang, Jeff Marek, and Ian Mendes.

Thanks to Karen Milner, Lindsay Humphreys, Kim Rossetti, and Heather Ball at Wiley, and especially to my agent Brian Wood, whose heroic and tireless work on this project included inserting this line when I wasn't looking.

And finally, a special thank you to the readers who've been with me over the past five years as a completely unknown blog grew and grew until it became a mostly unknown blog. If you've ever posted a comment, clicked a Like button, retweeted a joke, or forwarded a link to a friend, you've helped me more than you know. My sincere thanks. I owe you a beer.