Hockey category: 570 books
The Guy on the Left
Sports Stories from the Best Seat in the House
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
If you’re a sports fan, you know James Duthie.
The biggest games, the biggest trades, the juiciest rumours—chances are Duthie is the guy you tuned in to hear talk about them. There are other experts and insiders, stats guys and analysts, but no one else who can talk about sports with the humour,...
by Theo Fleury, Kirstie McLellan Day, Wayne Gretzky
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In Playing With Fire, Theo Fleury takes us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player, and talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home. Dark personal issues began to surface, and drinking, drugs, gambling, and girls ultimately derailed a career that had him destined...
Tough Guy
My Life on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Documenting his notorious career with the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks, Bob Probert details in this autobiography how he racked up points, penalty minutes, and bar bills, establishing himself as one of the most feared enforcers in the history of the NHL. As Probert played as hard...
by Sean Mitton, Jim Prime
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
A moment in time.
It’s rare for a person to remember exactly where he or she was at a single moment in time, some four decades past. It’s rarer still for an entire nation to hold a collective memory of such a moment. This kind of hardwired retention usually results from group trauma...
Fighting Back
The Chris Nilan Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Chris Nilan, who grew up in the tough and gritty Irish enclave in Boston, was a feared enforcer for the Montreal Canadiens, the Boston Bruins, and the New York Rangers and a Stanley Cup champion never afraid to go into the corners or take off his gloves. He was a valued teammate whose very presence...
The Kid
A Season with Sidney Crosby and the New NHL
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
In the tradition of A Season on the Brink and Peter Gzowksi's The Game of Our Lives, Shawna Richer has had the exclusive assignment of chronicling Sidney Crosby's incredible rookie season. Beginning with the NHL entry draft that almost never was, Richer follows Crosby to Pittsburgh, where he is greeted...
Bruin Redemption
The Stanley Cup Returns to Boston
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Relive the Moment When the Bruins Won It All!
After thirty-nine torturous, winless years, the Bruins finally returned home with their prize - but bringing the Stanley Cup back to Boston was no easy feat.
The heated series, arguably the scrappiest in play off history, took a toll on the...
Ambrì4ever
Una lettera d'amore alla propria squadra del cuore
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Per raccontarvi Ambrì4ever vorrei citarvi un trafiletto della testimonianza lasciatami da un noto giornalista al quale avevo sottoposto in anteprima l’opera per un suo giudizio e chiedendogli poi di trascriverne le sue emozioni.
Tornato a casa dalla vacanza, svogliato come quando si capisce...
Brett
His Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
In this newly revised edition, Brett Hull tells his own story and shares his troubles and triumphs. Through all the pressure and controversy that comes with being an NHL great, he strives to stay on top of his game and to maintain an easygoing attitude.
The Day I (Almost) Killed Two Gretzkys
...And Other Off-the-Wall Stories About Sports...and Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Although James Duthie’s daughter had hoped he would write a book featuring princesses, dragons or zebras, you won’t miss them in The Day I (Almost) Killed Two Gretzkys. Instead Duthie interviews a prophet monkey who predicts games’ outcomes, confesses to the near-homicide of both Walter and...
Straight Up and Personal
The World According to Grapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
There's no holding him back.
Known for his opinions--and unabashed expression of them--Don Cherry has been causing debate for decades. Topics on "Coach's Corner" sometimes veer away from sports and on to other matters that are near and dear to Cherry's heart: the war in Afghanistan...
by Thomas Drance, Mike Halford, John Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Plenty of Canucks fans have taken in a game at Rogers Arena and will tell you they know just how to tell the Sedin twins apart. But only real fans can immediately recall Pavel Bure's penalty shot in the 1994 Stanley Cup final, or have hit the road to support their team in enemy territory. 100 Things...
by Joanne Ireland, Ryan Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
All Oilers fans have marveled at highlights of The Great One, and have felt that excitement coming back to Oil Country with phenom Connor McDavid. But only real fans can immediately recall Ryan Smyth's third-period hat trick in the 2006 playoffs or have hit the road to support their team in enemy...
J.P. Bickell
The Life, the Leafs, and the Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
He stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.P. Bickell cast a long shadow.
A self-made mining magnate and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P. Bickell lived an extraordinary and purposeful life. As one of the most important industrialists...