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Five books to begin your hockey reading journey
1) The Game by Ken Dryden
2) The Hockey Handbook by Lloyd Percival
3) How to Play Hockey by Tom Watt
4) 99 Stories of the Game by Wayne Gretzky and Kirstie Day
5) Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent by Rich Cohen
Books for Toronto Maple Leafs Fans
1) The Lives of Conn Smythe: From the Battlefield to Maple Leaf Gardens: A Hockey Icon's Story by Kelly McParland
2) Father Bauer and the Great Experiment: The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey by Greg Oliver and Jim Gregory
4) The King: The Story of Börje Salming by Börje Salmingand Ola Ola Liljedahl
3) Home and Away by Mats Sundin
4) '67: The Maple Leafs, Their Sensational Victory, and the End of an Empire by Gord Stellick and Damien Cox
5) Young Leafs: The Making of a New Hockey History by Gare Joyce
Top Shelf? This Season’s Roster of Hockey Books
An Essay by Stephen Smith in the Literary Review of Canada
1) How to Win at the Olympics by Anatoli Tarasov
2) Tarasov: The Father of Russian Hockey by Anatoli Tarasov
3/4) Path to the Summit (Volumes I & II ) by Jim Genac
5) The Red Machine: The Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada’s Game by Lawrence Martin
6) The Greatest Game by Todd Denault
7) The Game That Saved the NHL: The Broad Street Bullies, the Soviet Red Machine, and Super Series '76 by Ed Gruver and Joe Watson
8) From Behind the Red Line: An American Hockey Player in Russia by Todd Hartje
9) The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery, and Courage by Keith Gave
10) Cold War on Ice: The NHL versus the Soviet Union in Hockey’s Greatest Super Series ‘76 by John G. Robertson and Carl T. Madden
1) The Series: What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now by Ken Dryden
2) Sitting On Tretiak: The 1972 Summit Series Play by Play. Volume 1: The Canadian Games. (The Summit Series 1972) by Grant Pennell
3) The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and Reinvented Hockey by John U. Bacon
4) 1972: The Series That Changed Hockey Forever by Scott Morrison
5) Cold War: The Amazing Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972 by Roy MacSkimming
1) Ice in Their Veins by Ian Kennedy
2) Crashing the Net by Mary Turco
3) A Miracle of Their Own by Keith Gave
4) Break Away by Karissa Donkin
5) As Fast As Her by Kendall Coyne
6) Dare to Make History by Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando
7) On the Edge by Elizabeth Etue and Megan K. Williams
8) Over the Boards by Haley Wickenheiser
9) Breaking the Ice by Angie Bullaro
10) MANON RHÉAUME BIOGRAPHY by William Charles Joshua
Books on the 1980 Miracle on Ice
1) The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey
2) The Making of a Miracle by Mike Eruzione
3) Miracle in Lake Placid by John Gilbert
4) Going for the Gold by Tim Wendel
5) Miracle on Ice by Red Smith
Books for Detroit Red Wings Fans
1) Mr. Hockey: My Story by Gordie Howe
2) The Russian Five by Keith Gave
4) The Grind Line: The Gears that Powered the Detroit Red Wings to the Summit by Keith Gave
3) VLAD THE IMPALER: And More Epic Tales From Detroit's '97 Stanley Cup Conquest by Keith Gave
4) Blood Feud: Detroit Red Wings v. Colorado Avalanche by Adrian Dater and Scotty Bowman
5) Hockey Gods: Inside the 2001-02 Red Wings' Hall of Fame Team by Nicholas Cotsonika and Gordie Howe
6) Detroit Red Wings’: Greatest Moments and Players by Stan Fischler
7) Nicklas Lidstrom: The Pursuit of Perfection by Nicklas Lidstrom, Gunnar Nordstrom, and Bob Duff
Books By Ken Dryden
1) The Game
2) Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other
3) The Series: What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now
4) Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador, and the Future of Hockey
5) Home Game: Hockey Life in Canada
