Black Aces Hockey Club Book Club

If you only read one book this year, first of all you should read more, but if you only read one book then the one book you should read is The Rise and Fall of the Black Aces Hockey Club, Volume 1: True Tales of Rec Hockey Greatness. 

That’s right, in a stunning turn of events, local hockey team the Black Aces have had their mildly interesting exploits immortalised in book form. Your favourite posts from this very blog have been collected and assembled into an actual book. 

Publishers and literary agents somehow failed to recognise the universal appeal of a book about a beer league hockey team playing in a small rink in Toronto Canada, so your blog host and Black Aces historian decided to publish the book himself. You’re welcome. 

 Sure you could read all about the team right here on this very blog, but then you would miss out on the clever additional content that accompanies each chapter in the book, not to mention the many footnotes explaining the more obscure references to Aces players and events over the years. 

Still with me? You can buy the book ($14.99) from me directly on the book website or from evil billionaire space-weirdo Jeff Bezos on Amazon. It’s your choice. 

If you can’t crack the Aces’ lineup to join the hockey club you can still join the book club.

Ice Agents Ice Aces Players

In an unprecedented turn of events, American ICE agents have arrested and detained several Aces players in Toronto and L.A. this week, resulting in the team icing a short bench in their latest game.

Get the guy in the Expos jersey first

 

Team baseball scout Martin L was scooped up by masked ICE agents in Los Angeles immediately following Tuesday’s World Series game at Dodger Stadium along with several dozen other Toronto fans and has not been heard from since. His seat on the flight back to Toronto for Wednesday’s Aces game was empty, according to our sources. Thoughts and prayers, Marty, thoughts and prayers.

In Toronto the Aces’ lost both John and Blair to an American cross-border ICE raid targeting illegal immigrants and socialists. “All I did was order a dozen Coronas for me and Blair and boom - next thing I know I’m getting tackled by these dudes in camo outfits” said team lumber coordinator John through his lawyer. “They kept calling me ‘Juan’ for some reason. What the fuck?”

The short bench may have been a contributing factor to the team losing 4-1 to the Battlers in a game where the blackshirts were never really in the match. Sure, the other guys had an even shorter bench but we won’t talk about that. The game was played without stop time as well, so the Aces game plan of wearing down the Battlers’ starting rotation never had a chance to work.

In other news, Go Jays!