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The holiday season is upon us. For many hockey fans that now includes the highlight of the regular season in the annual Winter Classic outdoor game. This year Detroit hosts Toronto at The Big House at the University of Michigan. With an expected 106,000-plus fans in attendance, this game will dwarf all other Winter Classics of the past. Speaking of Winter Classics of the past - that is the focus of Russ Cohen and Michael del Tufo's new book The Winter Classic . Buy The Book -  Amazon.ca  -  Chapters  -  Amazon.com The NHL debuted the Winter Classic in 2008 in at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo to a crowd of 71,217, which still stands as the biggest crowd in NHL history. Subsequent Winter Classics were played at Chicago’s Wrigley Field (40,818), Boston’s Fenway Park (38,112), Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field (68,111) and Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia (46,967). The Winter Classic has been the one event that has transcended the American sports scene as a tr...

Amazon.ca Widgets A look at the upcoming 2013 hockey book releases: 99: His Game, His Story by Al Strachan Anchorboy by Jay Onrait Behind The Net: 101 Incredible Hockey Stories  by Stan Fischler The Best, Worst and Biggest NHL Trades of All Time Between The Pipes by Randi Druzin The Biggest of Everything In Hockey by The Hockey News Bobby Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr The Boy Who Missed The Bus by Matt McCoy Completing The Quartet: Hugh "Muzz" Murray Don't Call Me Goon by Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen 50 Greatest Red Wings by Bob Duff Fighting Back by Chris Nilan The Game: 30th Anniversary Edition by Ken Dryden Gordie Howe's Son by Mark Howe Heart Of The Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story  by Pierre Pilote Hockey Hall of Fame Book Of Players by Steve Cameron Hockey Hotbeds by Ty Dilello Ice Cold by Billy Pepitone Keith Magnuson: Life And Times by Doug Feldmann Keon And Me by Dave Bidini My Last Fight by Darren McCarty My Tou...

I have finally started reading the fantastic new hockey novel Pond Hockey: Rediscovering The Game  by Brian Kennedy. Buy The Book: Amazon.ca  - Chapters - Amazon.com Kennedy, of course, is the author of Growing Up Hockey and Hockey Is My Country (and covers the LA Kings and Anaheim Ducks when not writing books). So readers familiar with his previous work will not be surprised by my "fantastic" designation. How fantastic is it? I get up at 4 am and the last couple of nights I've stayed up past midnight wrapped up in it. And, as a rule, I don't particularly like fiction. There is an exception to every rule and that exception is reserved for Brian Kennedy. Pond Hockey inspiring story tells the tale of a country boy who seeks his fortune in the big city only to encounter bitter defeat. But when Todd Graham returns to his rural home town, he rediscovers the local pond where he spent many happy hours, as well as, the ghost of a past life where he experienced...

Ty Dilello's first book, Hockey Hotbeds ,is a collection of stories on thirty hockey cities/towns around the world. Boston, Massachusetts, Gothenburg, Sweden, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and Zurich, Switzerland are among the thirty hotbeds featured. Each feature includes exclusive interviews with many of the games top players from the past, present and future. Dilello takes us around the hockey world in a wonderful e-book read. Buy The Book: Smashwords Dilello opens in Boston with some personal memories of the Bruins and the old Garden, as well as some hockey playing memories. He then goes on to some of hockey's most famous cities - Montreal, Ottawa, Minneapolis, Helskinki - and not so famous - Ust-Kamengorsk, Jyvaskyla, Weston, Herning. Along the way he introduces us to local legends past and present. He interviewed the likes of Johnny Bower, Cesare Maniago, Mike Liut, Andy Bathgate, Thomas Steen, Peter Bondra, and Nik Antropov. Dilello, who writes for the Internat...

Austrian goaltender Bernd Bruckler pulls the curtain on life in Russian hockey in his KHL memoir “ This is Russia: Life in the KHL - Doctors, bazas and millions of air miles ” Bernd Bruckler spent three seasons in the “Kontinentalnaya Hokkeynaya Liga” in Russia, better known simply as the KHL. Established in 2008, the KHL has quickly become the top European hockey league, with ambitions to challenge the NHL for the hockey supremacy of the world. Bruckler played two seasons with Torpedo Nizhny Novogorod, and one season with Sibir Novosibirsk in Siberia. In this memoir he tells what it’s like to be an import player in Russia, and the challenges he faced with the language, the culture, and the hockey. He talks about life in the baza, his teammates, doctors, pills, training camps, the saunas, and the money. Oh the money! “In my three years in the KHL, I saw things I thought I’d never see, but I’m glad I did. Some things were wonderful, others were horrible, and some things were just exp...

It is time we name the HockeyBookReviews.com 2013 Hockey Book of the Year. I do not really know why I've waited so long to name this, because there is a very obvious winner this year: Dave Bidini's  Keon and Me: My Search For The Last Soul of the Leafs Buy The Book:  Amazon.ca  -  Chapters  -  Amazon.com   Dave Bidini is hands down the best writer in hockey these days. So news of a new release from Bidini is greeted with eagerness. When that book is about Dave Keon and the Toronto Maple Leafs, the anticipation was rightfully through the roof! To no one's surprise, Bidini delivers. Bidini is the most creative hockey writer of our time, and  Keon and Me  is nothing short of a fantastic piece of literature that even non-hockey readers will thoroughly enjoy. This book is an instant classic that transcends the hockey world. Buy The Book:  Amazon.ca  -  Chapters  -  Amazon.com   While Keon And Me is a non-fict...