The Team

The Steelhawks are a fictional professional hockey team located in Hamilton, Ontario. Like any professional team, their roster may change from season to season. 

At the time of the first book, their roster and front office are made up as follows:

Team owner: Langley Taylor-Wallingford

In the front office: Harrison Lavoie, general manager

Shawntelle Alexander, vice president of communications

Eugene McKay, capologist

Team mascot: a silver-feathered giant hawk named Hamish.

Head coach: Martin “Marty” Reed

Chase “Chaser” Barrett (#26)

Raphael “Biz” Bisson

Jordan Dougherty 

Max “Douchebag” Ducharme(#13)

Jamie “Eddie” Edwards (C) (#6)

Laurent “Gilly” Gill (#1)

Lukas Gustavsson

Corey Jennings (A)

Jayden “Killer”Kelly (#17)

Dmitri “Kovy” Kovalenko (#30)

Alex Labrie

Jesse “Yes-Man” Makinen

Logan “Sauce” Marinaro (A)

Jan Novotni

Alexei Petrov

Michael “Presto” Prestifillippo (#55)

Ryan Rocque “Rocky” (#19)

Colby “Top Cheddar/Ched” Shelton (#10)

These are their usual lines and defence pairings (at least in season 1) :

Shelton-Ducharme-Makinen

Marinaro -Novotni-Jennings

Gustavsson-Bisson-Labrie

Prestifilippo-C-RW

Kelly-Edwards

Dougherty-Rocque

Barrett-Petrov

Gill

Kovalenko

Goal song: Bachman Turner Overdrive “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.”

Music in the arena has a distinct Canadian bent. They play stuff like “Raise a Little Hell” by Trooper (when there’s a fight), “Tom Saywer” by Rush, the guitar riffs from “American Woman” by the Guess Who, “Go for Soda” by Kim Mitchell (TV timeout), “Safety Dance” Men Without Hats (when there’s a general scrum), “Little Bones” Tragically Hip, “I Am a Wild Party” (Kim Mitchell)–this is Gilly’s song and it’s an in-joke.

But inevitably there’s also Queen’s “We Will Rock You” because absolutely every arena ever has to play that at some point.

Their home jerseys are red with black accents on the lower sleeves and shoulders, and gray and white stripes. The team logo is a silver hawk’s head.