"It's not something a marketing company could do. It brought me in touch with an incredible number of people and none of those people ever said anything I didn't enjoy hearing. "Almost every day there's happy news coming to me because of that little book. "It was a gift from life that is just amazing. "I could not imagine anything that happened," Carrier said this week. In short, it has become one of the country's best-known and enduring hockey stories. It has gone from a story read on radio to part of a short story collection to an illustrated children's book to a 10-minute National Film Board production. It has been taken into outer space by Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk and appeared on the back of the Canadian five dollar bill. The simple story of a small town Quebec boy who is sent a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey instead of that of his beloved Montreal Canadiens by a faraway department store has sold more than 300,000 copies. MONTREAL - When Roch Carrier wrote "The Hockey Sweater" in a mad rush in 1979 he had no idea it would become one of Canada's iconic stories about childhood and its national sport.
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