Surely Canada’s self-proclaimed hockey historian PM can’t refuse, can he?

OTTAWA — National Hockey Day?

That’s what the third Friday in February would become in Canada if a member of Parliament from Alberta has her way.

Linda Duncan has already produced one political miracle — winning the riding of Edmonton-Strathcona for the NDP in the federal election last October — and now she’s taking aim at another one.

On Monday, Duncan will table a private member’s bill in the House of Commons to have the third Friday officially declared National Hockey Day. She plans to announce her intentions today at Vimy Ridge Academy, an Edmonton school with a hockey team that has both boy and girl players.