Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anecdotes, stories and clearly enunciated insights and analysis put The Last Hockey Game right up there on the shelf with Ken Dryden's
The Game. There can be no question after reading this excellent addition to hockey's literary canon that our game isn't now and will never be the same as it was then." -- Jim Millican *
Winnipeg Free Press *
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The Last Hockey Game is a bold, intimate, often brilliant feat of storytelling. Bruce McDougall takes a single game, a proverbial grain of sand, and spins it into a universe. The resulting energy illuminates not just the core, the solid centre, but the ragged outer edges of the game's greatest franchises, the Leafs and Canadiens, at the height of their greatness." -- Charles Wilkins
"I saw this game, and I have to say the book is even better.
The Last Hockey Game has all the inside innocence, ego, snubbed cigars, honest scars and pro-gossip from the glory days when the NHL was about to lose its virginity." -- Bill Gaston
"It's about a game and its players, employees in a trade where even excellent work guaranteed nothing, least of all fair treatment yet they played their hearts out, for the love of the game. But the question you'll ask yourself most often while reading
The Last Hockey Game is: 'How did he find that out?'" -- Jean-Patrice Martel
