Restaurant critic Peter Hum takes reader questions on Jan. 26

In a few days, when the Canadian men’s hockey Olympic team laces up their skates for their first game at the Milan–Cortina Games, there’ll be someone missing: Quebec players. The province has traditionally supplied an average of four Quebec-born players per squad since the National Hockey League began allowing teams to send players to Olympic rosters. In 2010, at the Vancouver Olympics, when Canada won gold, all three goalies were Quebecers: Martin Brodeur, Marc-André Fleury, and Roberto Luongo. In a historic first, since 1952, Canada’s twenty-five-man hockey delegation won’t have anyone...