Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith is the Locker Room Doctor’s erudite hockey blogger. We had to look up what the hell that meant too… Stephen is an award-winning reporter and sometime columnist, having contributed to The Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, Quill & Quire, Outside, and The New York Times Magazine. He has a book, too, called Puckstruck. It’s his first. He shoots left, and can be found on Twitter @pkstrk

Puckstruck’s stories about five-dollar bills and boy travel writers have appeared in Geist and McSweeney’s. Like legendary Montreal Canadiens’ winger Bob Gainey, he was born in Peterborough, Ontario, and took to the ice at an early age, where he soon failed to follow Gainey to the NHL. While his enthusiasm was never in doubt — a coach once worried that with his headlong approach to the game, he was going to injure himself — he won none of Stanley Cups that Gainey collected, and no Conn Smythe trophies.