Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League [Hardcover]

Dan Diamond (Author), James Duplacey (Author), Ralph Dinger (Author), Igor Kuperman (Author), Eric Zweig (Author), Ernie Fitzsimmons (Author)

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"No matter how many hockey books you have or how many you want to have, there is only one you must have, and that is "Total Hockey." -- Stu Hackel, Fox Sports.com, Nov 29, 2000

"The answer to every question anyone may have about hockey is here...this reference is as complete as they come." -- Today's Library, February 2001

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1974 pages
• Publisher: Total Sports; 2nd edition (October 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189212985X
• ISBN-13: 978-1892129857
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #733,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resources, but 1st edition is full of inaccuracies, March 17, 2004

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K Scheffler (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League (Hardcover)

I'm one of those schleps who had the misfortune of investing the CDN $70.00+ dollars on this book when it first came out, only to learn that many of the (in particular non-NHL) statistics were inaccurate or missing completely. This is understandable for the very early players, but still, it seems as though more effort should have been put into this initially. I am interested in the old Hamilton Tigers franchise, and prior to getting the book had already done some research into the early careers of some of the players. Right off, I noticed that there were problems with the Leo Reise and Goldie Prodgers listings. These--and no doubt innumerable others--were rectified in the later edition, but that is little consolation for me. I made my investment, and unless I can find the revised edition cheap, I have no intention on blowing more money just to finally get what I should have gotten in the first place. Still, it has been a useful book at times, so it's not a complete loss, I guess.