Music: {allcanada} Prime minister finds outlet in hockey book

Monday, December 2, 2013

{allcanada} Prime minister finds outlet in hockey book

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TORONTO (AP) -- Stephen Harper says he had to ''settle'' for being prime minister instead of playing professional hockey.

In his youth, Canada's prime minister played for the Leaside Lions, a Toronto team. He tells the Toronto television station City he scored only three goals in three years and wasn't ''the great player people remember.''

Harper has written a hockey book titled ''A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs & The Rise of Professional Hockey.'' He says he started it nine years ago as a way to escape the pressures of politics.

While he wouldn't rule out another book, Harper has picked up another hobby for now: music. He performed a seven-song set Sunday night at a Toronto fundraiser in his honor.

He tells the morning talk show Breakfast Television that meeting deadlines ''in the last year or so was a bit of pressure on top of the job, so I'm spending my spare time now doing a bit of music instead.''

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