Hockey Stories On And Off The Ice [Paperback]

Dan Diamond (Author), James Duplacey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2001

Professional hockey is the perfect melding of team effort and individual performance, in a sport that fascinates first-time viewers and engenders rabid devotion in those who've long followed the game. Now hocky fans everywhere will thrill to the game's intimate details in Hockey Stories On And Off The Ice. This book delivers the fun, funny, and unforgettable tales that fans are dying to read. It includes memorable moments, as well as the strangest facts and legends to ever bulge the twine. From favorite players to driven coaches, hockey's brightest personalities shine. This one scores!

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About the Author

James Duplacey and Dan Diamond are the most widely recognized authorities and insiders in professional hockey. They coedited Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League and the 2000-2001 National Hockey League Official Guide and Record Book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (December 3, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740719033
• ISBN-13: 978-0740719035
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,971,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Hockey Stories for Short Attention Spans, December 22, 2001

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StrippedAGear "Axey" (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hockey Stories On And Off The Ice (Paperback)

'Hockey Stories for Short Attention Spans' is a better title for this book. The stories are only short anecdotes and many of them aren't even a page long. A reader could finish the entire book in under three hours. It's not very satisfying, either. It doesn't reveal much that fans haven't already heard about, nor does it discuss anything in depth. It offers little more than a small collection of cute factoids and famous quotes. There are also some mistakes. One of the most glaring is the description of the front cover photograph containing Leafs' Ponikarovsky and Senators' Magnus Arvedson. The description says the picture is of Mario Lemieux and Nevin Reid. I'd recommend this book to any fourth grade hockey lover with a book report due the next day. For rest of us, this bone offers hardly any marrow.

4.0 out of 5 stars Hockey Stories On and Off the Ice, July 21, 2002

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GoGirl (Lancaster, Ontario) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hockey Stories On And Off The Ice (Paperback)

Well, I can't agree with the only review here of this book and I'm not usually one to put my thoughts on review, but I gotta disagree here.

Ok, I'm a girl, so what do I know about hockey? Well, quite a lot, actually.

While it's true that this book is short, quick and quipped, I think it's packed with a wide assortment of interesting points of significance. I'm a self-taught historian who has a great love for the old PCHA. The stories about the Patrick's and how they formed the league went beyond what I've read in many past histories.

And then there's the Bernie Morris story! Come on! I have wondered for years about the status of Bernie Morris and why he seemed to just "disappear off the map." Well, this book solved that little mystery, and I'd never read any of it anywhere before.

I have always chuckled when I read about Link Gaetz, but I'd forgotten all about him. Well, Mr. Duplacey et al answered that little quiz for me as well. And if anyone didn't have a gawfaw when they read about King Clancy's room check, the special life of minor leaguers on the road and on the ice and all those weird trades and escapades and great lines from "Slapshot", well, where's your sense of humor?

OK, not everything's original and spick-span new, but all least all the great quotes we've heard and loved are gathered here in one place.

Hey, I'm a gal who loves hockey and I like to laugh about it too. And I laughed, big time. So do yourself a favor, buy it. So what if you can read it in an hour and a bit. Like, hockey fans have a wide attention span? This is an hour you'll enjoy. I know I did.

GoGirl