Roy MacGregor has been involved in hockey all his life. Growing up in Huntsville, Ontario, he competed for several years against a kid named Bobby Orr, who was playing in nearby Parry Sound. He later returned to the game when he and his family settled in Ottawa, where he worked for the "Ottawa Citizen" and became the Southam national sports columnist. He still plays old-timers hockey and has been a minor-hockey coach for more than a decade.
MacGregor is the author of several classics in the literature of hockey, including Home Game (written with Ken Dryden) and The Home Team, both national bestsellers, and the game's best-known novel, The Last Season. Roy MacGregor is a columnist for the "Globe and Mail," He lives in Kanata, Ontario.