Ron MacLean checks in from the latest stop on the Hometown Hockey tour, Selkirk, Manitoba.

Here’s tonight’s word play from London. As promised each week, I’ll incorporate lines from Canadian literature or a song into our broadcast, and then reveal them at show’s end.

In criss-crossing the country, we hope to tell the stories of lives lived on and off the ice, in and around our greatest game. And along the way we hope to create a few of our own.

Ron MacLean has been playing hockey since he was four and broadcasting NHL games for over 30 years. And yet, in hosting Sportsnet's new Hometown Hockey Tour, he feels a new sense of responsibility. After all, "This is us."