What hockey can tell us about beating COVID-19

WASHINGTON-As Canada's national winter sport and, for many, a quasi-religious preoccupation, hockey has often played an important symbolic role for us: Roch Carrier's picture book The Hockey Sweater capturing the country's two solitudes, Paul Henderson's 1972 goal as a galvanizing Cold War validation, the pond shinny on the back of the old $5 bill conjuring nostalgia for romanticized childhood winters, Sidney Crosby's Golden Goal in Vancouver in 2010 as a joyful reassertion of identity on the world stage.