The Oral History of Yost, Part 4: The Way the West Was Won
Previously: Part One, Part Two, Part Three [West Regional vs NoDak, 1998/Kalmbach via Bentley Historical Library] The story is almost too perfect. You expect the details of a hockey story to flow from odd angles, to be all jagged edges and shoulders and elbows and yet this story is writerly and neat and almost formulaic. It follows the kind of structure script writers teach in their intro film classes: the protagonist runs through the gauntlet and passes a test that changes them, then uses their newly girded spirit to pass the ultimate test and reap a reward barely fathomable at the start of t...
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