The Game of Our Lives
- ISBN-10
- 177203035X
- ISBN-13
- 9781772030358
- Series
- The Game of Our Lives
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04-25
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing Co
- Author
- Peter Gzowski
Description
In this bestselling timeless classic, Peter Gzowski recounts the 1980-81 season he spent travelling around the NHL circuit with the Edmonton Oilers. These were the days when the young Oilers, led by a teenaged Wayne Gretzky, were poised on the edge of greatness, and about to blaze their way into the record books and the consciousness of a nation. While the story of the early Oilers embodies the book, The Game of Our Lives is much more than a retelling of one season in the life of an NHL team. Unlike any book ever written in the annals of hockey, Gzowski beautifully weaves together the anatomy of a modern NHL team with the magnificent history of the game to create one of the best books about hockey in Canada. Here are the great teams and the great players through the ages—Morenz, Richard, Howe, Orr, Hull—the men whose rare and indefinable genius on the ice exemplified the speed, grit and innovation of the game.
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