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Week 4: Original Six: True Stories from Hockey’s Classic Era Along with sticking to our theme lately, this week’s random interesting-looking hockey book is another one I’ve actually read. Original Six contains six stories (one for each of the O6 teams, duh) from back in the day. It’s amazing to see where the game we …
Week 3: Gretzky: An Autobiography This week’s random interesting-looking hockey book goes right to the top. The Great One’s Autobiography may be old enough to drink (has it been 21 years since this came out?!), but it’s a good read. Enjoy… Via Amazon: Gretzky: An Autobiography “Who knew that Mr. Lady Bing was so opinionated? …
Week 2: The Great Expansion: The Ultimate Risk that Changed the NHL Forever Here’s the second entry to our new feature… picking a random interesting-looking hockey book every Friday. Some of them will be ones I’ve read, but most will be ones I hope to read someday, whenever the time-demons decide to give me some …
Week 1: Sports Illustrated The Hockey Book Trying out a new feature (and busting out some seriously mediocre Photoshopping)… picking a random interesting-looking hockey book every Friday. Some of them will be ones I’ve read, but most will be ones I hope to read someday, whenever the time-demons decide to give me some of my …
Nationalism Week twenty-two in the NHL Realignment Project has a “country” flavor to it. The main thing we’re doing differently this week is how we arrived at our honorific division names. The NHL is mostly made up of North American players and European, right? So I took the two (present-day) countries from each continent that …
Pod Casting – There’s No Place Like Home (and Away) This week we go to pods for the NHL Realignment Project. The addition of the Seattle Shamrocks and the Quebec Nordiques gets our league’s team count up to (our favorite very divisible number,) 32. In an effort to not only divide the teams up the …
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto With all the recent talk of NHL Realignment, it’s apparent that it’s a very emotional subject. “It’d be an insult if…”, “How dare they consider the possibility of…”, “If they do that, I swear I’ll…” So this week on the NHL Realignment Project, we take emotion out of the equation and ask …
