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Every hockey fan has two dreams right from childhood. One is obvious - to be the scoring star who scores the big goal to win the Stanley Cup. Who would not want to be Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux or Sidney Crosby? The other is to be the team's general manager. Think about it - to be the man who is responsible for assembling a  Stanley Cup champion! It is at the heart of every hockey card trade, hockey pool draft, and water cooler trade rumor debate we have ever engaged in. Yet how many of us really know what it is like to be a NHL general manager? Most of their work is done behind the scenes, and it is only once his work is all said and done do we get to see his newest draft pick or analyze his big trade or free agent signing. But now, thanks to a new masterpiece from author/publisher Jason Farris, we can all get a fascinating look into the lives of hockey's general managers. Even better, we all get an insider's look into many of the moves of various general managers p...

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Kevin Allen is back with another flag waving, patriotic book about hockey in America: Star-Spangled Hockey Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Here's more from Triumph Books: In Star-Spangled Hockey, legendary hockey writer Kevin Allen takes readers on a journey from the earliest days of USA Hockey to celebrate the organization's 75th anniversary. From the beginning, when the organization was started literally out of a shoebox in Tom Lockhart's New York City apartment, to the excitement generated by the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, this book covers the fascinating history of amateur hockey in America.

Legendary Canadian sports writer Trent Frayne has passed away . The 93 year old was once referred to as “likely Canada’s greatest sportswriter ever" by none other than Pierre Burton. Frayne began his journalism career in his hometown of Brandon Manitoba when he was just 15 years old. Soon he moved to Toronto where he spent a life time writing reports and columns for the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun and The Globe And Mail. He also did plenty of freelance work, landing pieces in Sports Illustrated and Saturday Evening Post. Frayne wrote more than a dozen books on sports, including Tales of an Athletic Supporter  (his personal memoires), The Mad Men of Hockey , and Great Canadian Sports Stories  (with Peter Gzowski).

I got the latest book from The Hockey News in the mail last week. The Hockey News Young Guns 2  was released in early January 2012, although I am curious as to why they did not release it earlier as it would have been an excellent Christmas choice for fans of all ages.. It is the sequel to Hockey's Young Guns released in 2007 Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com When it comes to books released by The Hockey News I find they are either well done or forgettable, with no middle ground. I am far more inclined to include Young Guns 2 in the well done category. Co authors Ryan Kennedy and Ryan Dixon  provide solid writing as they explore how 25 of the NHL's rising super stars reached stardom. They unearth some amazing stories of the various backgrounds of some of these amazing athletes. Like howe Carey Price's father flew he son to games and practices, or how Erik Karlsson learned the values that lead him through life from a lumberjack, or how Logan Couture h...

At long last I have read John Furlong's Olympic memoirs. The Vancouver Olympic Committee headman has - with the help of the gifted Gary Mason - penned his autobiography - Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics that Changed a Country . Though the book opens with the game's crowning moment - the men's hockey gold medal game - the book is not really a hockey book. Still, it is a great read for anyone looking to relive the 2010 Olympics, as well as learn how it all came to be. It is a pretty amazing behind-the-scenes look at "the Olympics that changed a nation." Furlong is an amazing visionary and an amazing leader. Right from the start he led his Olympic Committee team not with the purpose of putting on a show, but with the grander goal of nation building. Despite many challenges, they accomplished their goal magnificently. This book obviously appeals to Olympic sports fans and proud Canadians. But you almost could include this book in the business section of your...