Ken Reid
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the national bestselling author of One Night Only come 39 new stories about what a big-league goal can mean to an NHLer If you've ever picked up a hockey stick, chances are you've dreamed of scoring in the National Hockey League. Ken Reid interviews and profiles 39 men who did just that: they bulged the twine in the best hockey league in the world ... but only once. From minor league call-ups to season-long mainstays and even a Hall of Famer,...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the beer league to the minor league, from coast to coast, hockey players often say they'd give anything to play just one game in the NHL. One Night Only brings you the stories of 41 men who lived the dream - only to see it fade away almost as quickly as it arrived. Ken Reid talks to players who had one game and one game only in the National Hockey League, including the most famous single-gamer of them all: the Coach himself, Don Cherry.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A follow-up to the 2014 national bestseller, Hockey Card Stories 2 will take you all the way back to the 1960s and right up to the hockey card boom of the 1990s. Read about egregious errors, cringeworthy regrets, happy accidents, and glorious mullets, and feel like you're eavesdropping on a lively barroom conversation."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
ECW PRESS
Pub. Date
[2017.]
Language
English
Description
"Only 20 men in NHL history have scored 60 or more goals in a single season: Gretzky, Lemieux, and Hull all hit the magical mark. And so did an undersized, take-no-prisoners centre named Dennis Maruk. When Maruk found the back of the net 60 times in 1981-82, he was the toast of Washington - he even dined with the president. A few short years later, he was out of the game. Maruk not only left the rink, his life did a complete 180. Instead of flying...