Next Goal Wins!: The Ultimate NHL Historian’s One-of-a-Kind Collection of Hockey Trivia By Liam Maguire, with a foreword by Wayne Gretzky. (2012, Toronto: Random House Canada. Softcover. Pp. 227. $19.50 US / $22.95 CAN. ISBN 978-0-307-36340-4.) Everything you ever wanted to know about hockey trivia but did not know what to ask – that is ...
Dropping the Gloves: Inside the Fiercely Combative World of Professional Hockey. By Barry Melrose, with Roger Vaughan. (2012, Toronto: Fenn/M&S. Hardcover. Pp. 240. $27.99 US / $29.99 CAN. ISBN 978-0-7710-5694-9.) By now I am sure you have seen the Internet meme – a photo of Morgan Freeman with a sentence along the lines of ...
Breakaway: From Behind the Iron Curtain to the NHL – The Untold Story of Hockey’s Great Escapes. By Tal Pinchevsky. (2012, Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd. Hardcover. Pp. 274. $27.95 US / $32.95 CAN. ISBN 978-1-118-09500-3.) It has often been said that there are no new stories. Fortunately for hockey fans, Tal ...
Hamilton’s Hockey Tigers. By Sam Wesley with David Wesley. (2005, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 96. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-55028-887-2.) Published during the last NHL lockout, who knew one short statement in a book about a team that left Canada in 1925 would twice ring true in the span of almost a decade: ...
The Year of the Los Angeles Kings: Celebrating the 2012 Stanley Cup Champions By Andrew Podnieks. (2012, Toronto: Fenn/McClelland & Stewart. Softcover. Pp. 160. $19.99. ISBN 978-0-7710-5510-4.) Forty-five years in the waiting, hockey fans in Los Angeles finally have something to celebrate. Dustin Brown and Drew Doughty – with a little help from ...
Cracking the Ice (advance proof copy). By Dave Hendrickson. (2011, Lodi, New Jersey: WestSide Books. Softcover. Pp. 366. $16.95. ISBN 978-1-934813-55-3.) The sad reality has been, with as far as society has come, there were still some hockey fans who threw the rest of us right back to the days when black hockey players ...
Despite the strides the NHL has made in the “non-traditional” markets throughout the southern and western United States, there always seems to be a wrench thrown into the system. Last night on Facebook, local NBC 13 News (Birmingham, Alabama) personality Stephanie Walker posted “Come on!! Somebody score already so we can get on with the ...
The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack. By Mark Leyner. (2012, New York: Little, Brown and Company. Hardcover. Pp.247. $24.99 US / $27.99 Canada. ISBN 978-0-316-60845-9.) For that matter, it could be difficult to determine exactly what this book IS about. It is a story of a group of “gods” who have a constantly-changing story of creation being enacted ...
East Coast NHLers: The stories of the lives and careers of players from the Maritimes and Newfoundland. By Paul White. (2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Formac Publishing Company Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 160. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-88780-969-9) While the Stanley Cup Playoffs are in full swing, most fans focus more on where their favorite players are now, ...
Maurice Richard: The Most Amazing Hockey Player Ever. By Chris Robinson. (2011, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 128. $9.95. ISBN 978-1-55277-900-2.) “Don’t let anyone say that it’s just a game…” Eddie Vedder wrote those lyrics a few years ago for the song “All the Way,” his ode to being a long-suffering Cubs ...
