To the outside world, Billy Purdy is a pretty
great guy. He’s a professional
hockey player- an
enforcer, the kind that
really gets things done on the ice and doesn’t mind busting up a few heads doing so. When he’s not playing hockey is the star of the local bar. When in a hockey town, his stardom turns to superstardom. He constantly gets attention, free drinks, and can’t keep the ladies off him.
Reality for Billy couldn’t be further from his famous image. Truth is, he isn’t that great of a player he’s just got a bad temper. Billy is hard to handle both on and off ice so no
team really wants him. His once bright future has turned into an endless move from one team to another and Billy really has nothing to show for his so called glory days.
An Inverted Sort of Prayer shows a darker hidden side to our hockey heros. We watch the games with such intensity that we forget that these players are actually human. We can’t fathom that a great enforcer would really just be a drunk with an anger problem.