The Game is a captivating memoir of the 1979-80 Montreal Canadiens. Ken Dryden offers a unique look into the intense world of professional hockey.
The Game: Dryden, Ken
Sean Pronger takes you on a ride and shares his experiences as a “journeyman” player moving between various teams and various leagues. With humor and honesty, he lets you in on the realities of pro hockey.
Journeyman: The Many Triumphs and Defeats
Home Game is a heartfelt memoir written as letters to his daughter. The book reveals the perspective of a retired NHL goaltender transitioning into family life.
Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada - Dryden
Enough said. This book showcases how the Miracle on Ice became an enduring symbol of American resilience and the pursuit of excellence.
Miracle in Lake Placid: Greatest Hockey Story
Stephen Brunt’s book, Gretzky’s Tears, explores the backdrop to Gretzky’s trade to the Los Angeles Kings from the Edmonton Oilers.
Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, America and the Day...
While there may be more poetic books focusing on the game, Net Worth might be the most important one. It’s a great study of the inner workings of sports unions and the genesis of the NHL Players Association.
Net worth: Exploding the myths of pro hockey
The book explores the complex relationships between the players, their masterful coach, Herb Brooks, and how they came together as a team to defeat the Soviet Union and other hockey powerhouses on their road to gold.
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach
The book will allow fans to better understand the passion for the game that so many have. The book has a lyrical quality that invites a fan to read it with great care.
The Game of Our Lives: Peter Gzowski
Lawrence Martin does a fine job of exploring the other superpower in hockey history, the Soviet Union. The author explores not only the most important architects and players, but he explores the scientific approach that the Soviets took.
The Red Machine: Lawrence Martin: 9780385252720
It is a children’s book, but it offers a return to childhood for adult hockey fans. Carrier is a beautiful writer who parlays well his boyhood love for the Canadiens, and more specifically, the incomparable No. 9, Maurice Richard.
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Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest defenseman ever to play the game of hockey. But all the brilliant achievements leave unsaid as much as they reveal. They don’t tell what inspired Orr, what drove him, what it was like for a shy small-tow...
Orr: My Story: 9780399161759: Orr, Bobby: Books
For the first time, Gretzky discusses candidly what the game looks like to him and introduces us to the people who inspired and motivated him: mentors, teammates, rivals, the famous and the lesser known.
99: Stories of the Game
He broke hockey's color barrier--just as his hero, Jackie Robinson, had done for baseball. O'Ree proved that no one could stop him from being a hockey player.
Willie: The Story of the NHL's First Black Player
In this uplifting and entertaining volume of stories, Canadian broadcasters Bob McKenzie and Jim Lang bring together hockey players, coaches, and refs, as well as those behind the bench—the parents, scouts, analysts, and agents—to tell us, in their o...