How is hockey a source of freedom for Saul in the beginning at the residential school?

For Saul, hockey is the place where he leaves behind the hellish school. Saul feels freedom playing hockey, not bound by his trauma of the past. He feels the wind in his face and the energy of the game: Saul becomes a part of the energy like electricity.

At St. Jerome’s residential school, hockey gives Saul a physical and mental escape from severe abuse, loneliness, and the constant attempts to strip away his Indigenous identity