Floral, Saskatchewan is not the kind of place you’d expect to give birth to a god. A scattered unincorporated township just outside Saskatoon, it’s a world of fields, grain elevators, and open space. A loose gathering of farms that someone has ascribed boundaries to on a map.
There has been no post office in Floral since 1923. The grain elevator was demolished in 2003. The community center is one room in a schoolhouse, and the church is dormant. It is the most insignificant of insignificant spots on a map.
Unless you’re a hockey fan.
If you have ever picked up a stick, watched a hockey game or had any connection with the sport whatsoever, Floral is a hockey mecca.