Gare Joyce
2) The code
Author
Series
Publisher
Pintail
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After 14 years of bouncing around different hockey leagues, Brian is living out of a suitcase and scouting. But when the brutally murdered body of a coaching legend turns up, Brian's job of scouting the local phenomenon starts to overlap with investigating the killing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Northern Dancer was born in 1961 at the famed Windfields farm in Oshawa, Ontario. As a colt, he was unimpressive, small and stocky in stature, ornery and mischievous by disposition. Eventually, the colt that nobody wanted took the racing world by storm. Northern Dancer won the Kentucky Derby, and went on to win the Preakness Stakes of Baltimore, and nearly won the Belmont of New York. His seven wins earned him the title of champion three-year-old...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Thanks to his work at the NHL draft last season, Shade gets to hold onto his job as scout for LA - at least for now. Shade is checking out talent in Regina with his old friend and teammate "Chief." But when they learn of the suicide of an old teammate from their playing days in LA, they take a sometimes violent detour through the dark side of a small town with no shortage of secrets it wants kept at almost any cost.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This hockey generation's brightest talent has been plagued by concussions. Now, the very style of play that has brought Crosby such success may be heralding the end of his career. Sidney Crosby is arguably the best player ever to put on skates. You could argue that Bobby was better, or Wayne, or Gordie. But it would be hard to argue that any of those guys changed the game as much as Sid. No defenceman came along in Bobby's wake to play like him....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishersLtd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Playing with Fire and The Crazy Game comes a new memoir about a troubled hockey life.
Patrick O'Sullivan was a kid with skills, with natural gifts that catapulted him into the spotlight and made NHL scouts rave. O'Sullivan seemed destined to become one of the next great hockey players in the world. But then it all went horribly wrong.
In Breaking Away, Patrick O'Sullivan gives readers a disturbing account of ten years of...