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Amazon.ca Widgets A look at the upcoming 2012 hockey book releases: 1972 Summit Series: The Untold Story Angela James: First Superstar of Women's Hockey A Season In Time by Todd Denault A Wild Stab For It by Dave Bidini Barry Melrose: Dropping The Gloves Battle On The Hudson Bernie Parent: Unmasked The Best Of Down Goes Brown Best Seat In The House by Jamie McLennan Brass Bonanza Plays Again Breakaway: Untold Stories of Hockey's Great Escapes Captain James T. Sutherland: Battle for HHOF Chicken Soup For The Soul: Hooked On Hockey Coach: The Pat Burns Story Concussed! - Keith Primeau and Kerry Goulet Crosby's Golden Goal  by Mike Leonetti Derek Sanderson: Crossing The Line  with Kevin Shea Dit: Dit Clapper and the Rise of the Boston Bruins Empire Of Ice: Rise and Fall of PCHA Flyers Lives by Jakki Clarke The Goal That United Canada: 72 Amazing Stories Gold Mine To Gold Medal by Ivan McLelland Hockey Hall of Fame: Book of Jerseys Hockey Ni...

From Dave Bidini's literary agent: Canada Reads and Toronto Book Awards finalist, National Post columnist and Bidiniband frontman, Dave Bidini's  KEON AND ME: MY SEARCH FOR THE LOST SOUL OF THE LEAFS , a memoir of the writer at 11 as well as a search for his childhood sporting hero, Canada English rights to Associate Publisher of Penguin Canada Nick Garrison for Fall 2013 by Samantha Haywood. Here's  the full press release

Before Twitter, before 24-hour sports channels, long before fans watched highlight goals on their phones—long before something called a “highlight” had been invented—there was  Hockey Night in Canada . It was cutting-edge technology back then. Anywhere in Canada, a hockey fan could come in from the snow, sit down by the radio, listen to a game played in Montreal or Toronto, and experience the thrill of a game played hundreds, or thousands, of kilometres away. Before all of what we call Canada had joined Confederation, even before the “Original Six,” there was  Hockey Night in Canada  to define both the country and the game. Then, sixty years ago, another technological marvel changed the game—and the country—and launched the longest-running program in the world. CBC’s  Hockey Night in Canada , for the first time, was on television. At first fans worried that television would ruin the game. Now Canadians can hardly imagine the game without the CBC broadca...

From Quill and Quire : Hockey legend Bobby Orr will commit his life to paper in an autobiography that explores both his sports career and personal life. Orr: My Story  will be published by Penguin Canada’s Viking imprint in October. In a press release, Orr is quoted as saying: I’m like most people in that over time I’ve wanted to write down my thoughts, make sense of many things I’ve seen, and share some things I’ve learned. Having played in the National Hockey League doesn’t make me a better person than anyone else but it does mean that I’ve met some interesting people and been through some experiences I think are worth putting on paper. This moment in my life seems the right time to do just that. Orr: My Story was acquired by Penguin Canada associate publisher Nick Garrison and will be published simultaneously in the U.S. by Penguin’s G.P. Putnam’s Sons imprint. Here's the full story . Please note: the above cover image is not the cover image for this upcom...

Guest book review by Ryan Van Horne Although he never played the game, it could be argued that Frederick Arthur Stanley is hockey's greatest legend – or at least responsible for it. He is the man who started the sport's greatest tradition by donating the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup. Stanley's official title was Lord Stanley of Preston and, as the Governor General of Canada in 1892, he plunked down $48.67 of his own money to purchase a trophy that would become the most cherished in all of sport. In the early years, it was a true challenge cup and 57 teams from coast to coast played for it. A team from Dawson City, Yukon made a month-long trek to Ottawa and even travelled by sled-dog for part of the journey. Long Shots: The Curious Story of the Four Maritime Teams That Played for the Stanley Cup was published in October. It explores the history of the Sydney Millionaires and three other Maritime teams that challenged for the Cup. Nowadays, three of the four ci...

Do you ever wonder what happens on the frozen sloughs and ponds at night, long after all the children are tucked in their beds and dreaming of hockey? Well Marshall the Moose comes out and plays hockey. No, it's true. And yes he wears a helmet - it's made of bark and moss. He uses a rock as a puck. Marshall convinces some of his friends to play too. Friends who just happen to include a bear, a deer, a beaver and a Canada goose. No there's no locking out the moonlit Forest Hockey League. Anything is possible there. And that's the message behind sisters Lisa VandeVelde and Erin Black's cute new book Marshall Plays Hockey. It's a hockey book for pre-schoolers. Hey, what Canadian pre-schoolers wouldn't love a book about hockey and distinctly Canadian animals! “A lot of books out there on hockey are for older kids. Lots of them are wordy. I wanted a good story that captured Canada’s passion for hockey that a young child could relate to,” said author Vand...

From Doug Moe of  The Wisconsin State Journal Storytelling must run in the family. Bill’s father, Billy Reay, was a natural. Nobody spun better tales around the big breakfast table at the Coventry Village senior community off High Point Road. It was Billy Reay’s last residence. Mornings, he held court while the guys drank coffee. Reay — who died in Madison in 2004, at 86 — had a deep well of stories that sprang in part from his many years as a player and coach in the rough-and-tumble National Hockey League. As a player, Reay helped the Montreal Canadians win two Stanley Cups. As a coach, he took the Chicago Blackhawks to three Stanley Cup finals. It was Reay’s legendary hockey career that led the publishers of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books to contact his son, Bill, in Madison earlier this year and ask for a contribution to the latest in the series, just published, titled “Hooked on Hockey: 101 Stories About the Players Who Love the Game and the Families that Cheer...