Rebecca Dobrinski
Originally from Chicago, I'm doing time in the now professional hockey-less Birmingham, Alabama (but we have club hockey!). Between working, reading, and writing, hockey is that little distraction that keeps me sane. At least once a month, and especially when the Blackhawks are in town, I can be found in Bridgestone Arena cheering on the Predators (except, of course, when the Blackhawks are in town).
Author's Posts
Book Review: Next Goal Wins, NHL Trivia
March 11th, 2013 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...
Book Review: Dropping the Gloves
January 2nd, 2013 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...Review - Breakaway: From Behind the Iron Curtain to the NHL
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,...Book Review: Hamilton's Hockey Tigers
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...
Book Review: The Year of the Los Angeles Kings
July 8th, 2012 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...Book Review: Cracking the Ice
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...
