Crabtree is delighted to be reunited with his cocky youth friend Eddie Driscoll, despite him boasting to have married George's old love Lydia, but forced to arrest him as prime suspect when his 'Toronto Wellingtons' hockey team's star player Archie Simpson, whom he haughtily knocked a head injury in a locker-room fight, is found there died from blood loss, probably with a hockey stick. Chief Constable Giles backs the demand of his good friend, club owner Langston Wallace, to file it as an accident fast, given it's Toronto's first-ever shot at the coveted national league Stanley Cup, but after Dr. Grace concludes the fatal blow was administered way later, agrees with Murdoch conducting a proper murder investigation, only discretely. Driscoll is found flirting shamelessly behind Lydia's back, notably with not-amused ex Grace, and at odds with a third star player, Jerome Bradley, Grace's other ex. There is evidence of match cheating, reported to the MP nationally in charge, and setting up the owner of the fatal stick, which is linked to Wallace's office.
—KGF Vissers