Hockey

In this sports memoir, Wayne Gretzky weaves memories of his legendary career with an inside look at professional hockey and the heroes and stories that inspired him. From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments becoming the...

An uplifting leadership book about a coach who helped transform the nation’s worst high school hockey team into one of the best. Bacon’s strategy is straightforward: set high expectations, make them accountable to each other, and inspire them all to lead their team. When John U. Bacon played...

THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER With its unpredictability, brutality, and camaraderie, hockey is full of great stories. And great characters. Certified Beauties is a new collection of the most compelling, hilarious, and heartwarming inside hockey stories—the ones that the players tell each other...

THE DEFINITIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SPORTS LEGEND The NHL may never see anyone like Gordie Howe again. Known as Mr. Hockey, he led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cups and is the only player to have competed in the league in five different decades. In Mr. Hockey, the man widely recognized as...

On the fortieth anniversary of the historic "Miracle on Ice," Mike Eruzione—the captain of the 1980 U.S Men’s Olympic Hockey Team, who scored the winning goal—recounts his amazing career on ice, the legendary upset against the Soviets, and winning the gold medal. It is the greatest...

As a single father, I often feel like the weight of the world sits on my shoulders. When my daughter’s nanny gives me her two weeks’ notice, I’m sweating bullets. Fear that my NHL season with the New England Bay Sharks could be derailed consumes me. Finding a replacement seems impossible...

Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL. The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment, you're in awe of the...

**One of Sports Illustrated's Best Sports Books of 2017** Controversial hockey star Sean Avery's no-holds-barred memoir of high living and bad behavior in the NHL—coupled with the behind-the-scenes glitter of celebrity and media nightlife in New York and LA. As one of the NHL’s most...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A hockey life like no other. A hockey book like no other. Scotty Bowman is recognized as the best coach in hockey history, and one of the greatest coaches in all of sports. He won more games and more Stanley Cups than anyone else. Despite all the changes in hockey, he coached...

In the early 1970's an upstart professional hockey league known as the World Hockey Association was formed to challenge the well-established and ...

Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the 20th century. Their "Miracle on Ice" has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella...

A guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockey More and more fans are watching the NHL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. How does an offense create shooting lanes for its best sniper? When a center breaks through and splits...

When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain....

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is so universally loved has been rocked in recent years by court cases involving sexual assault and startling incidents of hazing and abuse throughout...

The series you thought you knew: the first book written with the complete co-operation of the whole team “They’d stolen our beer and our steaks, and then to make it worse . . . they give us this Russian beer—the warm, skunky sh*t, and not the good, cold Labatts our sponsor sent. I remember...

Boy on Ice is a moving human story and behind-the-scenes account of a life lived in the glare of sporting fame....

Steve Dangle’s incredible odyssey, from self-starting Leafs lover to sports-media star....

Forty years after the "Miracle on Ice" captivated the world, this book deeply examines the impact that singular event had on the people who played and coached in it and how that game changed the trajectory of American hockey....

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality. No one who knows the game is unfamiliar with the story of...

The Voices of Hockey boasts play-by-play broadcasters sharing pinnacle moments of the league over the past 60 plus years. From the great one to the great eight, these storytellers encapsulate the greatest moments the only sport deserving of the nickname the fastest game on earth has to offer.

A celebration of the unsung heroes behind the game, including first-hand stories from moms of the NHL’s biggest stars Hockey Moms laces together the stories of NHL hockey moms like Kelly McDavid and Ema Matthews with those of mothers who never expected their children to set foot on the ice...

Falling for my best friend's brother was not a part of my plan . . . especially while I was pregnant with someone else's child. In my defense, I got pregnant by a guy who wants absolutely nothing to do with me or the baby. And, just when I thought things couldn't get worse, I find out that my...

The hottest takes and biggest beefs about hockey from the wildly popular podcaster and YouTuber Who would be on the Mount Rushmore of goalies? Is Gretzky the Greatest Player of All Time (a.k.a. GOATzky)? What are the most embarrassing Leaf losses of all time? Why would you choose to play in a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BC NATIONAL AWARD FOR CANADIAN NON-FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK From the bestselling author and Hall of Famer Ken Dryden, this is the story of NHLer Steve Montador—who was diagnosed with CTE after his death in 2015—the remarkable evolution of hockey itself, and a...

When I find Rowan Taylor's infant daughter abandoned outside the hospital I work at, both of our lives are instantly flipped upside down. I'm only in Aston until my travel nurse assignment is up in a few weeks, but when I realize the star goalie needs my help, I can't seem to walk away from him...

They know how to fight for the win. But love is the one thing that can still bring them to their knees. In this irresistible three-book sweet hockey romance box set, three unforgettable heroes discover that the biggest risks aren’t taken on the ice—they’re taken with the women who steal their hearts. Filled with small-town charm, second chances, forced proximity, friends to lovers, opposites attract, grumpy-sunshine tension, single parent romance, past hurt, and family-centered happily-ever-afters, this collection delivers all the heart, hope, and swoon readers love. From kindhearted ...

She stitches him up every time he walks through those ER doors. One night, she has to restart his heart. Ava Mercer works the overnight shift at Brooklyn General. She’s used to blood, broken bones, and men who won’t explain how they got that way. But the one who keeps showing up after midnight — always alone, always wrecked, always too calm for how badly he’s hurt — is different. She patches him up. He disappears. She tells herself to stop thinking about him. Then he flatlines on her gurney, and she refuses to stop compressions until he comes back. Rourke Gallagher is the enforcer...

He stopped a stickup at my bodega, said almost nothing, and disappeared into the night. I couldn’t stop thinking about him. Two men with a gun and a knife. Eight seconds. Then a stranger put them both on the floor without a word and walked out before I got his name. I went back to work. Swept up the broken glass. Told myself I’d forget him. But every night after close, someone walked past my window. Slow. Deliberate. Watching. Then my best friend dragged me to an underground club in Brooklyn — the kind of place where money and violence share the same air — and I saw him standing ...

Sutton Webb swore she’d never give her ex-boyfriend another chance. But the hotshot hockey captain knows how to push all her buttons... and when they’re not at each other’s throats, they’re in each other’s arms. But she still can’t escape the suspicions of infidelity which broke her heart—and their relationship—in their junior year. Declan is everything she craves and everything that drives her mad, all rolled into one. But he’s hiding a big secret. He tells himself it’s to avoid ruining things with her. But the truth always comes out. And when it does, it will reopen ...

He owns the team. He runs the empire. And the league just sent me to audit his books. Sloane Harper is the best financial auditor the NPHL has. Thorough. Relentless. Impossible to charm. So when the league flags irregularities in the New York Reapers’ finances, she’s the one they send to Brooklyn. Lorcan Gallagher is waiting for her. Eldest son of a dead Irish crime boss. Owner of the Reapers. The kind of man who wears three-piece suits with scarred knuckles and makes grown men step out of his path without being asked. He’s polished. He’s courteous. And every word out of his mouth ...