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Searching for Terry Punchout

By: Tyler Hellard
Narrated by: Chai Valladares
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A 2026 CBC Canada Reads Selection

Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

Garden State meets King Leary in this slapshot debut novel.

Adam Macallister’s sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he’s got one last shot—a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey’s most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout—who also happens to be Adam’s estranged father. Adam returns to Pennington, Nova Scotia, where Terry now lives in the local rink and drives the Zamboni. Going home means drinking with old friends, revisiting neglected relationships, and dealing with lingering feelings about his father and dead mother—and discovering that his friends and family are kinder and more complicated than he ever gave them credit for. Searching for Terry Punchout is a charming and funny tale of hockey, small-town Maritime life, and how, despite our best efforts, nothing can save us from becoming our parents.

©2018 Tyler Hellard (P)2026 Invisible Publishing Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Small Town & Rural Sports Hockey Funny
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Critic reviews

“There just aren’t enough good books that feature hockey. This is a good, funny and touching book that I really enjoyed reading.”—Nerd Girl Loves Books

“An assured debut, wryly funny.”—Literary Review of Canada

“A story of a father, a son and hockey that set[s] heart and mind reeling.”—Chris Benjamin, Atlantic Books Today
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I heard about this book after the host of a podcast I listen to championed it on Canada Reads.
Although it's about Ice Hockey, it's not 'about' Ice Hockey, but about life around it.

If you like "Slice of Life" meets "last chance saloon", this is definitely for you. I do, so I thought it was great. And I learned about the Marlies original name. Which, as I am a Brit, I have a good excuse for not knowing.

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