On March 26, award-winning singer/songwriter Raffi offers something new: a song celebrating hockey! A catchy toe-tapping tune, "On Hockey Days" comes from Raffi's love of the sport and the fun of hockey outings.

This bright all-ages song in praise of hockey moms and dads who spend a good part of the winter with their girls and boys at the rink may be the first to celebrate grassroots hockey as a family experience.

"Hundreds of thousands of families are involved in amateur hockey-amateur means for the love of it," Raffi says. "This song is about the fun of hockey, the winter game loved by young and old."

You might wonder about pro hockey and world peace -- what's this about, is he nuts? Well, maybe. But considering the NHL hockey violence often in the news, and hockey analyst Don Cherry's repeated tributes to Canada's Afghan war dead within "Coach's Corner" on CBC's Hockey Night In Canada, I could examine the militarization of Cherry's segment and the loss of respect for Canada as a peacemaker in the world. But I won't. I will, however, question the role of violence in Canada's fall-winter-spring passion and what that says about this country. I believe it's a lack of imagination that keeps our beloved game unchangeable in the minds of violence proponents. Canada, we're better than this. We're peacemakers.