Good hockey books

[starsfan71 9]

The Game by Ken Dryden is interesting, but the best beer league is Midnight Hockey by Bill Gaston.

Another interesting hockeylogue is The Tropic of Hockey by Dave Bidini.

I read the Tropic of Hockey from the Library when I was about 12. To say the least it was a strange experince.

The Austin Icebats lol haven't heard of them in a while. :D

[eddyo57 0]

11 Seconds.... not as much about hockey as it is about life lessons but its truly inspirational.

to achieve your dream for a mere 11 seconds would be pretty tough

[JJ Thompson94 0]

Any Ranger fan MUST read: Losing the Edge; The Rise and Fall of the Stanley Cup Champion New York Rangers by Barry Meisel. It's an amazing read about how the Rangers got to where they were and how those moves made them lose it afterward. It gives you an inside look on the relationship between Neil Smith and Mike Keenan and how Mark Messier dealt with the team and his amazing captaincy. It's really a great read that any Ranger fan must read. There is no bias, not written by a Ranger. Just a reporter giving you the true inside scoop. AMAZING read.

[SidCaeser 0]

That reminds of the book Blood Feud. It is about the Red Wings/Avalance rivalry. It is written by a Colorado columnist, but he puts the extra effort in to detail both sides of the rivalry. It is really interesting, because you get the stories behind a lot of the on/off ice activity, and how it carried over throughout the seasons.

[Apes44 7]

+100 on 11 Seconds, Travis Roy is my personal hero and even more so after reading that. I have probably reread it about 10 times! Makes you appreciate what you can do!

+1 on The Code

[jrhky36 1]

"from behind the red line" by tod hartje. our sons played in the same learn to play program he in det. he was the first na player to go over to russia and paly. we talked about his time over there and whats cool is he told me how it all came to be. drafted out of harvard by the jets he was not ready to play in the "a or the i" at the time so the jets made a deal to send him over to russia with the hopes of developing his skills and gain an in with the russian to send there players to the jets. great book thought. man can tod skate.

[ndlancer95 0]

Another good book is Home Ice, The author is jack Falla, i believe.

[k13 0]

A must read for anyone interested in Drafts is, Future Greats and Heartbreaks by Gare Joyce

+1

[ndlancer95 0]

"The Code: The Unwritten rules of fighting and retaliation in the NHL"

Thought it was an interesting read becuase it's chock full of takes from current and former players on various scenarios and events (including the McSorley and Bertuzzi incidents).

The Code was a great book. It gave me a glimpse of what the stars think, as CaptainFantastik said.

[NickRow 0]

I haven't read it yet but i think it's called "And Howe". It's an autobiography about gordie. My dad has it and he said it was pretty good. I bet he has a lot of cool stories to tell since he played through so many different eras.

[ndlancer95 0]

+1 one on the Ken Dryden book, Eleven Secons, and the Code. I have read all of them 10 times, and loved them. My local rink actually has a signed picture by Travis Roy after his accident.

[$m0k3 0]

I really liked this book by Gretzky, read it about 15 years ago when i was a kid.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x4/x20061.jpg

[sitzlejd 0]

Just finished boys of winter. Definitely a good read.

[ultraman7k 0]

so i work in a book store, and i think you guys are totally missing out on some of these 'awesome reads.'

i laughed when i saw these books a couple weeks ago, and they are the brunt of many jokes between my coworkers and i. There's just nothing romance authors won't write about these days.

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Penalt...dre+Martin%2527

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Fair-P...dre+Martin%2527

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Body-C...dre+Martin%2527

what about books aimed for kids, anyone read "The Hockey Machine" by Matt Christopher, or even "The Screech Owls' series? These are still pretty popular books to this day among kids.

Seriously though,

I'd also recommend "Pavel Bure: The Riddle of the Russian Rocket" by Kerry Banks. Little hard to come by (even in Vancouver for some reason) but from what I've heard it's quite an interesting read.

Also when Phil Esposito's book "Thunder And Lightning: A No-b.s. Hockey Memoir" came out a few years ago, we had a hard time keeping it in stock. Also, Don Cherry's horribly named "Hockey Stories and Stuff" is a pretty good read. He just tells little stories about his time in the game and they usually aren't more than a page long so you can really read it in segments.

[dsjunior1388 81]

so i work in a book store, and i think you guys are totally missing out on some of these 'awesome reads.'

i laughed when i saw these books a couple weeks ago, and they are the brunt of many jokes between my coworkers and i. There's just nothing romance authors won't write about these days.

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Penalt...dre+Martin%2527

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Fair-P...dre+Martin%2527

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Body-C...dre+Martin%2527

what about books aimed for kids, anyone read "The Hockey Machine" by Matt Christopher, or even "The Screech Owls' series? These are still pretty popular books to this day among kids.

Seriously though,

I'd also recommend "Pavel Bure: The Riddle of the Russian Rocket" by Kerry Banks. Little hard to come by (even in Vancouver for some reason) but from what I've heard it's quite an interesting read.

Also when Phil Esposito's book "Thunder And Lightning: A No-b.s. Hockey Memoir" came out a few years ago, we had a hard time keeping it in stock. Also, Don Cherry's horribly named "Hockey Stories and Stuff" is a pretty good read. He just tells little stories about his time in the game and they usually aren't more than a page long so you can really read it in segments.

I loved those Matt Christopher books as a kid. I remember The Hockey Machine, Ice Magic, Face-Off and Wingman on Ice, plus a couple football and plenty of baseball books.

[sitzlejd 0]

I LOVED Matt Christopher books as a kid, but I never read the hockey ones (I only played basketball and baseball growing up). The first one I ever read was "The Kid Who Only Hit Homers." CLASSIC!

[badger_14 601]

what about books aimed for kids, anyone read "The Hockey Machine" by Matt Christopher, or even "The Screech Owls' series? These are still pretty popular books to this day among kids.

For kids books, Sigmund Brouwer has written a bunch of fictional YA books about various WHL teams. Basically mystery stories (whodunits) with a hockey base. Not a bad read.

[dsjunior1388 81]

Steer Clear of this one: Save: A novel of College Hockey by Michael Judd- (Not to be confused with "Saved" By Jack Falla)

Absolutley WEAK story. rambles on about a low level corruption on some DivIII hockey team, where the hot freshman goalie battles for respect and eventually, what is right. We get about three quarters of the way into the story and the writer realizes his plot is pretty thin. So he introduces a new girl into the story, and then plucks a character who up til now has not had a line of dialogue (hes a defenseman on the team). Suddenly we get three pages of this guy portrayed as a caricature of a drunken asshole. Within 5 pages of the "incidental" introduction of the new girl, the sudden asshole rapes her, forcing bad drama that does not figure into the not at all shocking or interesting conclusion. Pathetic.

[nealbroten 18]

agree with others on any jack falla hockey book.

also can recommend "Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts "

true story of a minor league backup hockey goalie in Hungary who is also a bank robber (or should say "was", i believe he is still in jail over there).

[dw91 0]

agree with others on any jack falla hockey book.

also can recommend "Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts "

true story of a minor league backup hockey goalie in Hungary who is also a bank robber (or should say "was", i believe he is still in jail over there).

Maybe this story was the premise for that Nike hockey commercial, haha

[Zinger 0]

im currently reading the King of Russia by Dave King....its pretty awesome....its his story about coaching in Magnitogorsk in the Russian super league the year after the lockout....lots of info on Evgeni Malkin as well

[ndlancer95 0]

Great book. I wholly recommend it.

It is hard to not mention either of Jack Falla's books, Home Ice and Open Ice. Both are true expressions of the game at its most pure level, and are all about why we love our game. Lastly, one cannot forget Travis Roy's truly amazing book, Eleven Seconds about his paralysis.

Sorry to bump an ole thread, but I read Falla's Home Ice and I loved it. Also read Eleven Seconds and I have to feel for the kid. He spoke at my HS 2 years before I started there

[dumbpolak9 1]

playing with fire was awesome

[coryroth24 15]

im currently reading the King of Russia by Dave King....its pretty awesome....its his story about coaching in Magnitogorsk in the Russian super league the year after the lockout....lots of info on Evgeni Malkin as well

+1

playing with fire was awesome

+1

They Boys of Winter was a good read too...

[AIREAYE 248]

If you want to learn about hockey in other countries like China, read Dave Bidini's Tropic of Hockey