In the spring of 1951, Bill Barilko leapt into history. Just twenty-four-years-old, the hard-hitting, poor-sighted defenceman from gold-rush Timmins scored an overtime winner in the Stanley Cup Final--delivering the Toronto Maple Leafs their fourth championship in five years. Four months later, on a return flight from a fishing trip near James Bay, Barilko vanished with his pilot, triggering the largest aviation search in Canadian history.
Marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of that goal and disappearance, sportswriter Ronnie Shuker reconstructs Barilko's improbable rise--from the rough outdoor rinks of Northern Ontario to the Hollywood Wolves of the PCHL, and finally to Maple Leaf Gardens, where he became "Bashin' Bill," a fan favourite known as much for his bruising play as for his clutch performances. Shuker then retraces the route of Barilko's fatal floatplane journey, exploring the pilot error, bad weather, and overloaded cargo that likely sealed his fate, and the eleven-year mystery that kept a nation wondering.
From the ice to the crash site, and from contemporary reporting to the cultural revival sparked by The Tragically Hip's "Fifty Mission Cap," Shuker offers the fullest portrait yet of a Canadian folk hero--his triumphs, his tragedy, and the enduring myth that grew in the silence of the Northern Ontario forest.
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