Book Review: My First Goal
My First Goal: 50 Players and the Goal that Marked the Beginning of Their NHL Careers By Mike Brophy. (2011, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 254. CAN…
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Book Review: Summit Series ’72
Summit Series ’72: Eight games that put Canada on top of world hockey By Richard Brignall. (2011, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 151. $9.95. ISBN 978-1-55277-883-8.) Like…
Book Review: The Lives of Conn Smythe
The Lives of Conn Smythe: From the Battlefield to Maple Leaf Gardens: A Hockey Icon’s Story . By Kelly McParland. (2011, Toronto: FENN/McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Hardcover. Pp. 370. $32.99.…
Book Review: The Life and Times of the Golden Jet
The Devil and Bobby Hull: How Hockey’s Original Million-Dollar Man Became the Game’s Lost Legend By Gare Joyce. (2011, Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons, Canada, Ltd. Hardcover. Pp. 274.…
Out of the Swamp and Onto the Ice
By Rebecca Dobrinski, SECHC Correspondent The University of Florida Ice Gators kicked off their season this past weekend, taking on their South Eastern Collegiate Hockey Conference (SECHC) rivals, the Ice…
Vandy Takes to the Ice in Music City
By Rebecca Dobrinski, SECHC Correspondent The Frozen Commodores of Vanderbilt University were the second South Eastern Collegiate Hockey Conference (SECHC) team to hit the ice this fall. They were also the…
Ice Rebels Ready to Drop the Puck
By Rebecca Dobrinski, SECHC Correspondent The Ole Miss Ice Rebels (The University of Mississippi, for you non-Southerners) open their third season against the University of Memphis this weekend (September 9-10). …
Y’all Ready for Some…Hockey?
In a region where football has replaced cotton as king, a Yankee sport continues to grow. For the past three years the Southeastern Collegiate Hockey Conference (SECHC) has been…
Do You Still Believe in Miracles? – A Review of Wayne Coffey’s The Boys of Winter
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. By Wayne Coffey. (2005, New York: Three Rivers Press. Softcover. Pp.…
Yale’s Resurgent Ice Age
If you have the chance to borrow a copy of the May / June 2011 issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine, be sure take advantage of it (or at least…
A “Wheelwrite’s” Take on the Bs
Blog: The Hub of Hockey Writers: Mark Marino, Tim Rosenthal, Anthony Travalgia, & LA Mullin With the Bs and Bolts on in the background, what better setting is there…
Laughter is a Junkies’ Best Medicine
Blog: The Hockey Junkies Writers: Noodles & Henrik As hockey fans, the game makes us laugh and makes us cry (to be a little cliché). Most fans remember…