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Hockey Canada has a new online store . I hope to see it grow into the largest collection of Team Canada an international hockey books on the web. In the meantime, there are two books available at the Hockey Canada online store: Canadian Gold: 2010 Olympic Winter Games Ice Hockey Champions is a commemorative paperback book that celebrates the women’s Olympic hockey team winning back-to-back Olympic championships and the men’s team recapturing the gold they claimed in Salt Lake City. Canada`s Olympic Hockey History Book is by the bestselling author Andrew Podnieks. This collector’s book offers a comprehensive, fascinating look at almost a century of Canada’s Olympic hockey history, including both the men’s and women’s teams. Moving chronologically starting with the 1920 games through Canada’s Turin’s 2006 games, Podnieks has compiled a treasure-trove of facts and figures on everything from team players, uniforms and rules, to travel conditions, opponents, and final standings. C...

Here's a sneak peak at the hockey books scheduled for release in autumn 2010: Hockey Superstitions: From Playoff Beards to Crossed Sticks and Lucky Socks - Super-author Andrew Podnieks explores the fascinating and fun world of hockey superstitions: their origins, their quirks, and the mythology around them. Along the way, it gives us an original look into the minds of the players and coaches behind them. Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com The Greatest Game: The Montreal Canadiens, the Red Army, and the Night That Saved Hockey - Todd Denault takes a look at the night of December 31, 1975. On that night the Montreal Canadiens hosted the touring Central Red Army, the dominant team in the Soviet Union in what many say is "the greatest game ever played." Held at the height of the Cold War, this remarkable contest transcended sports and took on serious cultural, sociological, and political overtones. And while the final result was a 3-3 tie...

KP Wee is a super baseball and hockey fan with a few self published titles. In 2009 he came out with his latest title - Oh So Close, Canada! Lamenting Some of the Missed Championships in Canadian Sports History . Buy The Book:  Amazon.ca - Amazon.com - Author's Website The author looks at the 1984 Montreal Canadiens, the 1985 and 1987 Quebec Nordiques, the 1986 and 1990 Calgary Flames, the 1991 and 1992 Edmonton Oilers, the 1993 Toronto Maple Leafs, 1994 Vancouver Canucks, the 1998 and 2002 Montreal Canadiens, 2003 Vancouver Canucks and Ottawa Senators, the 2004 Calgary Flames and 2006 Edmonton Oilers. Now some of those teams were legitimately heart-breakingly close to winning the Stanley Cup. Others, not so much. It is written with a undeniable degree of fandom. Though covered rather briefly, fans of those particular teams will enjoy re-living those playoff runs. It would be nice if the author dug a little deeper though, perhaps exploring common themes or long term effects...

Whether one loves hockey or loathes hockey, you will not find any Canadian deny the sport plays a very big role in our culture. Yet it is a fact that is very much taken for granted, and rarely studied. Jason Blake offers a significant exploration of hockey and Canada's culture in his book Canadian Hockey Literature . Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Blake, an English professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), studied Canadian hockey literature, the first in-depth study of it's kind. By that we mean hockey fiction, not hockey-friendly biographies and histories and other such non-fiction. Of course, there really isn't a great collection of hockey fiction. Up until about 25 years ago hockey fiction was almost non-existent, especially when compared to the wealth of literary gems in the baseball world. Things have really improved in recent times, thanks to the likes of Mark Jarman, Richard B. Wright, Paul Quarrington, David Adam Richards and Mordecai R...