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Official Guide to the Players of the Hockey Hall of Fame is one of two new hockey books from the Hockey Hall of Fame for the 2010 season. The others is The Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Goalies . This book definitely surprised me. The Hall of Fame has put out several books about it's honoured members over the years. They tend to be quite similar - beautiful coffee table sized books blessed with photos right out of the Hall of Fame vaults. This new release is almost better categorized as a pocket book. I was almost shocked! After years of bigger books I'm still trying to get used to the new format. This book is a whopper at 544 pages. Included are point by point profiles on every inductee and more than 400 photos! And it's cover price is just $19.99 which means you should be able to get this book under $15 most places. Just look at the beautiful production value in this featured profile below: After seeing these beautiful pages, you'll definitely be looking to ...

Vancouver Canucks fans wish this book was a reality. Chapters actually has a listing for it, although it does say "temporarily unavailable for order." Mind you, the publishing date is 2035. That's an awfully long time away Canucks fans. Amazon.ca Widgets

Good news Bruins fans. The Year of the Bruins: Celebrating Boston's 2010-11 Stanley Cup Championship Season has hit bookstore shelves everywhere! Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com For the first time in Stanley Cup history, a team has won game seven in three series en route to winning the Stanley Cup. The Boston Bruins, champions for the first time since 1972, beat Montreal in seven in the opening round, Tampa Bay in seven to get to the Stanley Cup Final, and then Vancouver, 4–0, in the final game of the Stanley Cup Final to win hockey’s most prized trophy. The team was led by the goaltending of the Conn Smythe Trophy winner Tim Thomas, timely goals from Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand, great leadership on the blue-line from captain Zdeno Chara, and tremendous inspiration from Nathan Horton. The Year of the Bruins is a celebration of Boston’s incredible 2010–11 season, from training camp through the rigours of the eighty-two-game regular season, and the...

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Scouting has always been the back bone of every successful hockey team. In the salary cap era it is even more important than ever. Yet it remains quite secretive and almost universally under-appreciated by virtually everybody in hockey, especially the fans. That all changes now thanks to author Shane Malloy and his book  The Art of Scouting: How The Hockey Experts Really Watch The Game and Decide Who Makes It . Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com  - Kindle Edition Malloy offers us a sneak peak into the world of scouting, gathering insider information from dozens of current and former hockey scouts. We get to learn how the scouts watch the game, and more importantly, what they are looking for to determine whether they believe certain players are prospects or not. He does by gathering quotes and opinions from some of the game's very best scouts. He focuses on 10 specific hockey traits and dedicates a full chapter to each one: Hockey sense, skating...

Todd Denault (author of Jacques Plante and The Greatest Game ) emailed me late Sunday night to let me know of a late entry into the hockey book market. A late entry, and a potentially spectacular one at that. Denault, who spends a lot of time in bookstores (usually signing his own titles), discovered the interesting title Raising Stanley by Ross Bernstein. He was so excited about the book, he emailed me about it right away. Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com - E-Book "I'm in the hockey book section when I came across a book that I hadn't recalled seeing. The name of the book is Raising Stanley and the author is Ross Bernstein. I must admit that seeing a new book this late in the game really surprised me." It is amazing. Supposedly the release date was supposed to be back in September. Perhaps there have been distribution problems in Canada, because Ross Bernstein is a big name hockey writer. How big? He's got Scotty Bowman writing this boo...

Another new book in James Lorimer and Company's fine RecordBook Series is Queens of the Ice: They were fast, they were fierce, they were teenage girls by Carly Adams. Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Here's more from the publisher: In 1931, a group of ten teenage girls from Preston (present-day Cambridge), Ontario, enlisted the help of the top women's sport journalists of the era, and the Preston Rivulettes hockey team was born. Within a decade the team became so good that no other team would dare to play against them. Yet the struggles these young women faced are ones that women can still relate to today, including criticism for aggressive play and fighting, lack of financial and fan support, the right to govern their own sports organizations, and ice time that went to boys' and men's teams first. Here's the specs: Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: Lorimer (September 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 155277...

In what may be the most unusual hockey "book" release of 2011, Running Press Miniatures Editions releases the 32 page Finger Hockey: No Poke Checking! Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Here's more from the publisher: Why get bruised and bloodied playing the treacherous sport of hockey on an ice rink when you can do it right on your desktop? This is a game that the millions of rabid hockey fans around the globe will love. Kit includes a set of finger “goalie” pads, net, hockey stick, puck, skating rink playing mat, and a 32-page rule book on Finger Hockey. Here's the specs: Paperback: 32 pages Publisher: Running Press Miniature Editions (Aug 30 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0762442573 ISBN-13: 978-0762442577

Publisher James Lorimer and Company and author Richard Brignall bring us Summit Series '72: Eight Games That Put Canada On Top of World Hockey . Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Like all books in the RecordBooks series, this is a quick, easy read. It is brief and does not offer anything new on the much written about Summit Series, but it is a good introduction for new generations of fans looking to learn about one of hockey's most important events. Here's more from the publisher: It wasn't until Canadian teams started losing in international tournaments in the mid 1950s that an epic hockey rivalry between Canada and the Soviet Union began. Canadians believed hockey was "their game." So Canadians were in for a rude awakening when they lost Game One of the 1972 Summit Series to the Soviets. The eight-game tournament quickly became a "war on ice" fuelled by competing Cold War ideologies. Hockey fans will enjoy reading about: smal...

Lobster Press presents Hockey Firsts, Volume 2 Buy The Book: Amazon.ca  - Chapters Also see: Hockey Firsts: Volume 1

Lobster Press presents Hockey Firsts, Volume 1 Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters

John Ralston Saul is the series editor for the exciting new series Extraordinary Canadians  by Penguin Books. The biography series features 20 great Canadians, including Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Louis Riel, Lester B. Pearson, Rene Levesque, Wilfrid Laurier, Tommy Douglas and Emily Carr. The series' mandate is to "rediscover twenty Canadians — rebels, reformers, thinkers, writers, painters, political leaders - who built modern Canada." Also included in the series, somewhat out of place at first glance, is Rocket Richard , the only hockey player. Although as we all know, Rocket Richard's legacy far transcended hockey. Charles Foran penned  this 166 page book, arguing "that the province's passionate identification with Richard's success and struggles emboldened its people and change Canada irrevocably. Buy The Book - Amazon.ca -  Chapters  - Amazon.com  - Kindle This book is not so much about one of the great hockey players in the history of...

Just in time for the summer BBQ season, here comes Borje Salming with his own cookbook! The Swedish "King of Barbecues" has put together  Grilling With Salming  where he cooks up steaks, fish, veggies and even deserts. I'm not sure if there is any Harold Ballard egg recipes. Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters   This book will test the theory that any book somehow involving the Toronto Maple Leafs will succeed. With the promotion machine behind it, I suspect the book will sell well. Speaking of the marketing machine, you can meet Borje Salming at a book promotion event on May 19th at the Indigo Books store at Toronto's Eaton Centre. Here's more about the book from the publisher, HarperCollins : Borje Salming is known for being a real tough guy. One of the first European hockey players to star in the NHL, he boasted a seventeen-year career with the Toronto Maple Leafs and earned a reputation as one of the strongest and best-respected defencemen in the game. ...