Hockey Fever

Glenn Parker

Language: English

Published: Jan 14, 2015

Description:

Don Jordan is a gifted Major Junior hockey player with a problem. He is unable to control his temper and has got himself into a number of dustups with both his opposition and the hockey community itself. After one particular game during which Don strikes a player and the player has to be taken off the ice on a stretcher, Don begins to wonder if he has the temperament to be a hockey player.

After considerable thought, he decides to quit hockey altogether and find a job. However, his coach is not impressed. Don is an integral part of his hockey team and with his loss, the team becomes much less of a threat to the rest of the league. His coach tells him to take a few days off and give it some more thought, but Don is adamant. As he sees it, there is no place for someone like him with his short fuse.

Finding a job, however, proves to be harder than he imagined and after several weeks and only able to pick up work here and there, Don is frustrated and almost ready to rejoin his...