Ethan

Like Jerome McGinley specifically,

had mentioned a few times that you know there would be people who would come up to him and be like yeah you want to play but like there's no black hockey players like what do you what are you doing right like i think the most interesting thing is seeing the younger generation of players enter the league or want to play hockey but they know that there are other examples that they could look at like sarah nurse

like looked at george larocque as an example like she's someone like oh yeah wow like that's someone i could play as in in nhl video games but also even to to bring it to the women's side too like i also have to mention like angela james is also in this book yeah now uh this is someone who i needed to have profiled this is someone i was not able to talk to directly but i was still able to get so many people to speak about her legacy but we're talking about someone

who was arguably the best at her sport at a time when you could barely watch it on television.

And for someone like Sarah Nurse, they would have loved to have known who she was like as a player.

It took them years after the fact to realize who they were, but they were still able to watch women's hockey on TV during the O2 Olympics when that started to become more and more of a thing, right?

Like I would say, and maybe this is a long-winded way of answering the question, but I think the biggest difference

The biggest thing to point out in the evolution of older players to younger players, it's their influences and players who came before them, the examples set before them.

There's a lot more of that in some of the younger players compared to some of the older players profiled.

All right, Julian, big question here.

So, I'll tell you this.

When I initially interviewed Anson, we talked about a lot of different things and the nickname did not come up.

But...

Someone tweeted at me like, hey, you should get the nickname in.

And I thought, well, you know what?

It would be cool to see if we can get the nickname there.

Maybe it's a spoiler, maybe it isn't.

It's not that elaborate of a story.

But it is mentioned very briefly how the nickname Ace came to be for Anson Carter.

I'm hanging on the edge of my seat right now.