Speaking about eating winter words and pond hockey, Bruce Valley, author of the new book “Seahawk: Confessions of an Old Hockey Goalie,” was playing in the tournament on Wolfe Island last weekend.

For those who are crazy about pond hockey, black ice, and old timey ice hockey teams, I suggest that they pick up a copy.

Dave Bidini, author of “Tropic of Hockey” and “The Best Game You Can Name,” compares Valley’s efforts to that of two legends of the hockey book world: “A fine literary descendant of Jack Falla’s Home Ice and Peter Gzowski’s The Game of our Lives. Like any good hockey book, it teaches us more about the world than hockey itself.”

Btw, we also love those bonfires. ) )