Before the Lights Go Out

A Globe and Mail Best Book
A finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of our best sports writers.

Hockey is approaching a state of crisis in Canada. It's become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it's for so long been an integral part.

As a lifelong hockey fan and father of a young mixed-race son falling headlong in love with the game, Sean Fitz-Gerald wanted to get to the roots of these issues. His entry point:… Keep Reading