The Montreal Canadiens are one of the most successful teams in the NHL, with 24 Stanley Cup victories and stars like Guy LaFleur, Patrick Roy, and Carey Price, who have all left their mark on hockey history. Author Pat Hickey, as a longtime beat writer for the Montreal Gazette, has witnessed more than his fair share of that history up close and personal. Through singular anecdotes only Hickey can tell as well as conversations with current and past players, this book provides fans with a one-of-a-kind, insider's look into the great moments, the lowlights, and everything in between. Habs fans will not want to miss this book.
Gowdy was assigned to broadcast a Patriots–Green Bay Packers game during those 1988 Olympics. The Patriots were happy to offer Gowdy a ride home on the team charter, and you can imagine my excitement when they assigned Curt the seat ...
Gary, has lived there since the 1970s. Gary is a Flames fan and longtime season ticket holder, and even when I worked for Hockey Night in Canada, whenever I did a Calgary game, Gary would always accuse me of anti-Flames bias.
Stories from the Calgary Flames Ice, Locker Room, and Press Box George Johnson, Peter Maher, Jarome Iginla ... face by a puck while behind the bench during the game immediately prior to the Fathers Trip, against the Detroit Red Wings.
Their daughter worked at Cantor Fitzgerald's corporate headquarters with the others I knew who also perished in One World Trade Center. The grieving couple was in New York to clean out her apartment. That trip really got to the guys.
First he traded Jeff Carter, who had averaged 38 goals per year in his previous three seasons, to Columbus for Jake Voracek and two draft picks—a first-rounder than turned out to be Sean Couturier, and a third-rounder that turned out to ...
In If These Walls Could Talk: Chicago Blackhawks, Mark Lazerus chronicles the team's rise from the dark ages of the 2000s to the golden age of the 2010s through never-before-told stories from inside the dressing room, aboard the team plane, ...
Once Fitch took over, Curtis Rowe showed up late to practice because his car had a flat tire. Fitch approached Rowe to ask why he was late. “Coach,” Rowe explained, “You passed me on the road and didn't stop to offer me a ride!
More than a quarter century later, these Habs remain the last Canadian-based team to win the Cup—and in The 1993 Canadiens: Seven Magical Weeks, Unlikely Heroes and Canada’s Last Stanley Cup Champions, K. P. Wee relives the story of ...
National Bestseller The definitive history of the Montreal Canadiens – now updated with the inside story of the tumultuous 2009 season.
They had Sean Marshall in, and he was a tough lefty and he had a good fastball. So I said, 'If he throws me a fastball first pitch, I'm going to pull it.'” Holy shit, did he pull it. One of the hardest hit balls I've ever seen.