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Hockey and Canada go together like America and fat people. Seriously, it’s a big deal up there. And like you’d expect from our overly friendly upstairs neighbors with funny accents, they celebrate hockey in many ways. This year attendees of the Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off on September 9, will get a new kind of Canadian passtime: the hockey-centric musical.

Yes, a musical about hockey. Awesome, eh?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film Score: A Hockey Musical is a “coming-of-age movie that portrays a sheltered 17-year-old, played by newcomer Noah Reid, going from zero to hero on the ice in a matter of weeks. Think Glee with sticks and skates as hockey players croon while slapping a puck round an ice rink.”

I can get behind the combination of the energetic, hilariously self-aware Glee and my most beloved sport. It comes from director Michael McGowan, whose work I’m not familiar with, and stars Olivia Newton-John and Nelly Furtado. McGowan, who also wrote the script, wrote the lyrics that are “put to music for the movie by the Barenaked Ladies, Newton-John, Amy Sky, Hawksley Workman and singer-songwriter Marc Jordan.”

The film will also star the likes of Allie MacDonald, Stephen McHattie and Dave Bidini of the rock band Rheostatics.

This confirms what I would like to call a Canadian cinema hat trick: musical, hockey and Stephen McHattie. Done deal, my friends. I now wish that I were heading to Toronto for opening night.