The Montreal Canadiens
100 Years of Glory
Written by D'Arcy Jenish

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $13.99

National Bestseller

The definitive history of the Montreal Canadiens – to coincide with their Centenary in 2009.

Before there were slapshots, Foster Hewitt, or even an NHL, there were the Canadiens. Founded on December 4, 1909, the team won its first Stanley Cup in 1916. Since then, the Canadiens have won 23 more... Read more >

Leafs AbomiNation
The dismayed fan's handbook to why the Leafs stink and how they can rise again
Written by Dave Feschuk and Michael Grange

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $8.99

Love them or hate them, they’re the most successful team in professional hockey … just not on the scoresheet.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are an exception to every law of the sporting jungle. They miss the playoffs and the sellouts keep coming. They haven’t won a Stanley Cup since 1967, but the... Read more >

Gretzky to Lemieux
The Story of the 1987 Canada Cup
Written by Ed Willes

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.99

Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Coffey, Fuhr, all on the same team — in their prime. The greatest collection of hockey talent ever assembled, playing the games of their lives.

Three epic 6-5 contests between Canada and the Soviet Union decided the ’87 Canada Cup.

Canada evened the series, after the Soviets won Game 1... Read more >

Gretzky to Lemieux
The Story of the 1987 Canada Cup
Written by Ed Willes

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $19.99

Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Coffey, Fuhr, all on the same team — in their prime. The greatest collection of hockey talent ever assembled, playing the games of their lives.

Three epic 6-5 contests between Canada and the Soviet Union decided the ’87 Canada Cup.

Canada evened the series, after the Soviets won Game 1... Read more >

King of Russia
A Year in the Russian Super League
Written by Dave King and Eric Duhatschek

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $19.99

A revealing look inside the Russian Super League by its first Canadian coach.

Until now no Canadian had penetrated the coaching ranks of Russian hockey, but the year after the NHL lockout, Dave King became head coach of the Metallurg Magnitogorsk. From the beginning, King, Canada’s long-time national coach and former coach... Read more >

Hockey
A People's History
Written by Michael McKinley

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $45.00

Lavishly illustrated, beautifully designed, impeccably researched, and wonderfully written, Hockey: A People’s History is the altogether irresistible companion book to the CBC-Television series of the same name, airing in Fall 06. A must-have for every fan!

Hockey is not just Canada’s national game, it is part of every Canadian’s psyche, whether we... Read more >

The Best Game You Can Name

Written by Dave Bidini

Format: Trade Paperback, 310 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $16.95

Bidini returns to the game he loves best

In 2004, Dave Bidini laced on his skates and slid onto the ice of Toronto’s McCormick Arena to play defence with the Morningstars in the E! Cup tourney. While thrashing around the ice, swiping at the puck and his opponents, Bidini got to thinking... Read more >

The Boys of Winter
The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Written by Wayne Coffey
Foreword by Jim Craig

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $13.95

The Story of the Greatest Sports Moment of the Twentieth Century

Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered what Sports Illustrated called the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their... Read more >

The Rebel League
The Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association
Written by Ed Willes

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $17.95

The wildest seven years in the history of hockey

The Rebel League celebrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of the fabled WHA. It is filled with hilarious anecdotes, behind the scenes dealing, and simply great hockey. It tells the story of Bobby Hull’s astonishing million-dollar signing, which helped launch the... Read more >

Counsel in the Crease
A Big League Player in the Hockey Wars
Written by Robert O. Swados

Format: Hardcover, 492 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2005
Price: $26.99

In his diverse, exciting, and very active forty-five-year legal career, spent mainly in the world of professional sports, attorney Robert O. Swados has worn many hats—owner, league executive, counsel, and franchise builder. In this wide-ranging and good-humored memoir, Swados offers many behind-the-scenes insights into the players, coaches, executives, and owners who... Read more >

Hockey Town
Life Before The Pros
Written by Ed Arnold

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $17.95

What makes a hockey town?

It helps that the world’s greatest hockey franchise – the Montreal Canadiens – made the Peterborough Petes part of their powerful farm system in the mid-1950s. And it definitely helps that a number of great coaches – from Scotty Bowman to Roger Neilson – have stood... Read more >

The Boys of Winter
The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Written by Wayne Coffey

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $11.99

Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella... Read more >

A Loonie for Luck

Written by Roy MacGregor

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $8.95

In February 2002, the greatest hockey teams this country could muster headed to Salt Lake City to compete in the Winter Olympics. Our men and women hoped to go all the way to the finals, but it had been fifty long years since the Canadians had won Olympic gold. In the... Read more >

Whose Puck Is It, Anyway?
A Season with a Minor Novice Hockey Team
Written by Ed Arnold

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $16.95

Every winter, in hockey arenas across North America, as soon as the kids step onto the ice, the abuse begins. Coaches yell at the players, parents yell at the coaches, and everyone yells at the referees. After nearly a decade of coaching youngsters, Ed Arnold decided he wanted kids to learn... Read more >