I hate hockey! is the first and last sentence in this novel that offers
a great take on our love-hate relationship with hockey. Narrator Antoine
Vachon blames the game for killing his marriage with his beautiful
ex-wife (well, that and the power outage that brought her home
unexpectedly to find him in bed with her intern). But hockey is a
pretext for unlikely adventure in this sardonic roman noir that at times
flirts with the outrageous.Antoine Vachon is a total loser living in a
pitiful bachelor apartment after he has lost his wife and his job as a
car salesman. When his son's hockey coach is found dead, he is
browbeaten into coaching the team for one game. He makes it through the
game (to great comic effect), but things take a turn for the worse when
they stop at a motel after the game. Who killed the former coach and
why? Was Antoine's son involved? Or his ex-wife? The late coach was
liked by all and was a pillar in the community. He was close to his
player, perhaps too close... Why is Antoine unable to communicate with
his son?