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When the Lights Went OutA Q&A with author Gare Joyce
A few of you may be familiar with veteran sportswriter Gare Joyce, author of When the Lights Went Out, and a recent addition to the hockey blogosphere.I had the chance to run a few questions by him re...
Add it to your book list
How's this for an intriguing new book currently in the works?Dave King was a head coach with the Canadian national program and in the NHL with Calgary and Columbus, and spent last year coaching Metall...
Searching for Bobby OrrThe origin story
"He's very quiet in the dressing room. I really haven't got to know him even though I've played with him for three years and sat beside him that amount of time. He's very, very quiet. When he really g...
The Mirtle book club
Fall is sort of like Oscar season for hockey books: All the great ones will be coming out in the next month or two, just in time for the Christmas buy up.This year, there are some really intriguing op...
Future Greats and HeartbreaksA Q&A with author Gare Joyce
Sportswriter Gare Joyce has been a busy fellow lately: A little more than a year after his last hockey book, When the Lights Went Out, came out, he's back with yet another entry in the genre, this tim...
Keith Jones wrote a book
The Mirtle book club rolls on.I have a mini-stack of hockey books on my coffee table right now, and so far I've plowed through about half the titles. There's one about the WHA, one from a Finnish writ...
The 100 Greatest Hockey Argumentsby Bob McCown and David Naylor
Given a good portion of the audience here is American, an introduction to our author might be necessary.In Toronto, Bob McCown is the radio personality, the gruff host of the Fan 590's wildly popular ...
Remembering the RacersA Q&A with author Timothy Gassen
I've been neglecting my book club duties, being a bad member by reading everything on the list and neglecting to discuss any of them.As I noted earlier, publishers have taken to offering to send me va...
McKeen's Hockey
It's late July, which naturally means it's time to bang out a hockey magazine.Every year I do some of the heavy lifting on McKeen's Hockey's annual yearbook, and it's a process that gets started about...
Malcolm Gladwell and hockey's Outliers
Back in May, Malcolm Gladwell sent me an email and said he needed a writer to attend the Memorial Cup in Vancouver. It was one or two days work, a bit of research and note taking at what would be so...
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