Book Review: The NHL A Centennial History
The NHL is well on its way to celebrating 100 years of hockey entertainment. D’arcy Jenish commemorates those 100 years in The NHL A Centennial History.
Rebecca Dobrinski
Book Review: Next Goal Wins, NHL Trivia
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…
Book Review: Dropping the Gloves
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.)…
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.…
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…
Book Review: The Year of the Los Angeles Kings
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…
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…
Local Newscaster Complains about NJ-LA Overtime Game
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…
Book Review: Warning – This Book is Not About Hockey
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…
Book Review: East Coast NHLers
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.…
Book Review: Maurice Richard
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…
Hockey Book Review: Black and Gold
Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs (Revised & Updated). Photography by Steve Babineau. Written by Rob Simpson. (2012, Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada,…