RECORDS FOREVER

A subjective look at 50 unbeatable NHL records, from the beginning of the NHL in 1917, to this past season, from one game, to a season to a career. Included in the scope of the contents are well-known records such as Glenn Hall’s 502 straight games played by a goalie to more obscure records, such as one Boston-St. Louis game in which teams scored just two seconds apart.

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GEM 2012

Redesigned and formatted to a bigger trim size, and with another colour inside for extra pop, the sixth edition of the best-selling stats book is more user-friendly and better than ever. As well as the previous elements which have been so popular, new sections have been added to make for a lively and more interesting presentation.

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YEAR OF THE BRUINS

Another in a series of instant books commemorating the Stanley Cup champions, this edition celebrates the 2011 victory by the Boston Bruins, the team’s first Cup win since 1972. Featuring stories from the entire season and more than 100 colour photographs, this official NHL publication is the most complete book of its kind.

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THE YEAR OF THE CANUCKS

Although the Canucks lost the Cup finals in game seven in 2011, this book documents the team’s incredible run to the ultimate championship game, from training camp through 82 games in the regular season, through four grueling playoff rounds.

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RETIRED NUMBERS

An officially-licensed NHL publication, this coffee-table book celebrates the more than 100 numbers that have been retired by NHL teams, from the famous names of Orr and Gretzky and Howe to the lesser-celebrated names of Michel Briere, John McKenzie, and Yvon Labre. Heavily illustrated with an appendix, this is the only comprehensive book on the subject.

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HOCKEY SUPERSTITIONS:
From Playoff Beards To Crossed Sticks And Lucky Socks

The first M & S book with the author, Superstitions tells more than a hundred stories of player and team rituals, both serious and hilarious, successful and unsuccessful, short-term and lifelong.

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GEM HOCKEY 2010-2011

The fifth edition of the best-selling series is here, this time with a Hockey Canada Olympics puck for those who buy the packaged book at Costco. The usual statistics and updates are augmented by all Olympics information celebrating not only Canada’s double gold but every other participating team.

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THE YEAR OF THE BLACKHAWKS

Celebrate Chicago's first Stanley Cup win in 49 years with this instant book which highlights Chicago's championship 2009-10 season, complete with colour photos, game stories, and stats.

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CANADIAN GOLD

Now available the official book celebrating the double gold medals for Canada’s men’s and women’s hockey teams at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, with stories, photos, and stats for every game Canada played.

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TRIPLE GOLD CLUB

The official book for the 2010 inaugural ceremonies of the Triple Gold Club honouring the first 22 members, this book was printed in an exclusive run of just 530 copies. It is a rare keepsake, indeed, of the celebration attended by all members of the Triple Gold Club.

CANADIAN OLYMPIC HOCKEY HISTORY, 1920-2010

The only book which details every Olympic hockey team Canada has produced—men and women—is available as a hardcover edition in anticipation of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Each chapter features thorough historic information and magnificent photographs, and an appendix includes all scores and standings since 1920.

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GEM STATS, 2009-10

Now available in its fourth edition, GEM Hockey features updated material, a special section on the Olympics, and a complete list of all players who appeared in the 2008-09 NHL season. The previous edition was again the top-selling hockey stats book in Canada in 2008.

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IIHF TOP 100 HOCKEY STORIES OF ALL-TIME

This book is a tribute to the IIHF's 100th anniversary season, 2007-08, which featured the top 100 stories of all-time. In addition, all other important events from the centenary are included, from the 2008 World Championship in Canada to the IIHF's outdoor rink in Zurich, finishing with stories and pictures of the inaugural Victoria Cup game.

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HONOURED CANADIENS

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Montreal Canadiens comes this book which profiles in words and pictures the 54 members of the Hockey Hall of Fame who were associated with the team. This lavish coffee-table book is available in both English and French.

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GEM HOCKEY 2008-09

For a third season GEM Hockey is available. This mini book was #3 on the end-of-year bestseller list for non-fiction titles in Canada for 2007, and the newest edition has been updated to include all information up to the start of the current season.

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THE UNBEATABLE MARTIN BRODEUR

Another in a series of young adult books produced by Andrew Podnieks and Peter Bailey, this celebrates the incredible—and ongoing—career of goalie Martin Brodeur. From his childhood to Stanley Cup and Olympic gold glory, this biography captures the essence of Brodeur's achievements. Additionally, all photographs in the book were taken by Martin's father, Denis.

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THE LITTLE BOOK OF HOCKEY SWEATERS II

The second installment of the popular original, this edition features 100 new stories from players about why they chose their sweater numbers. Many reasons are personal, some superstitious, some oddball, but for every player and every number, there is a story. Illustrations are courtesy of Anthony Jenkins.

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GOLF NOW

From Tiger Woods to Mike Weir, from Annika Sorenstam to Lorena Ochoa, GOLF NOW! provides an in-depth look at the careers of the game's top players from the PGA, LPGA, and around the world. With more than 75 profiles in all, this lavishly illustrated book prepares any golf fan for the 2008 season and includes a special feature on some of the game's top caddies.

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THE COMPLETE HOCKEY DICTIONARY

The most exhaustive dictionary of words and terms associated with hockey, the Complete Hockey Dictionary is as all-encompassing for the sport as the Oxford English Dictionary is for the English language. Words from the 1800s right up to the present are included, from "face the puck" to "bag practice," from "fence" to "benedict" and everything inbetween.

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WORLD OF HOCKEY: CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF THE IIHF 1908-2008

The 2007-08 season marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of international hockey, in Paris, in 1908, when the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace was formed. This deluxe coffee-table book features the 12 principle eras of the game and is accompanied by histories of all 65 member nations as well as a statistical appendix for all World Championships, Olympics, and Canada Cup-World Cup tournaments.

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GEM HOCKEY 2008

An updated version of the highly-successful original, GEM 2008 provides almost 600 pages of facts and stats for the NHL and international hockey, both detailed current information and enormous sections of historical data as well.

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THE SENATORS: CELEBRATING OTTAWA'S QUEST FOR LORD STANLEY'S CUP

From the first day of training camp in September 2006 to the last day of the Stanley Cup finals in June 2007, this book chronicles the best season in Ottawa Senators history. The team's pre-season roster is included as are game recaps and photos from all 82 regular season games. Each game of the playoffs is given deluxe treatment, from the first to the last.

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A CANADIAN SATURDAY NIGHT

From the perfect beauty of the black puck to the beautiful game of shinny on a frozen lake, hockey has been a part of the culture of Canada since the game was invented. This book offers readers some 65 essays and accompanying photos which collectively capture the relationship the game has had with the people, from kids to senior citizens, from 1875 to 2006.

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CELEBRATING THE GAME

The photographs of Paul Bereswill are housed at the Hockey Hall of Fame, and this book offers the best of his images with text to enrich the visual material culled by Bereswill from the glory days of the New York Islanders in the early 1980s through to the mid-1990s.

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GEM HOCKEY

A pocket-sized fact book for the stats lover, this GEM Hockey book offers numeric information on the game, mostly from last season (2005-06) and much of it not available anywhere else.

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GOLD AND HEARTBREAK

A thorough examination of everything that went right and wrong for Canada at the 2006 Olympics, Gold and Heartbreak offers game reviews of every hockey game played at the Torino Olympics, men and women, with an emphasis on Canada's teams. Additionally, there is a review of all previous Olympic teams, 1920-2002.

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SILVERWARE

This deluxe coffee-table book highlights 73 spectacular hockey trophies from the Hockey Hall of Fame's unparalleled collection. Each trophy is profiled in images and words to bring to life the great awards (the Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy) and the lesser-known ones such as the Atlantic City Boardwalk Trophy and Lou Hanley Award to provide an historical context of the game's history.

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THE LOST SEASON

A testament to the life of hockey outside the NHL, The Lost Season shows that even without the world's pre-eminent league hockey was alive and well in 2004-05. It includes stories on everything from the World Junior Championship to the world outdoor pond hockey championships in New Brunswick and every important hockey happening besides. Additionally, there is an A-Z register of all NHL players from the previous year with brief descriptions of their activities during the lockout season.

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THE SPECTACULAR SYDNEY CROSBY

The first book to profile hockey's newest wunderkind, this begins the first of a Hockey Canada series profiling Canada's greatest stars on ice. From his early days skating in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, to his meteoric rise through lower levels to the Quebec juniors and on to the NHL, The Spectacular Sidney Crosby traces the first 18 years of the man everyone is calling the next Wayne Gretzky.

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THE LITTLE BOOK OF HOCKEY SWEATERS

A unique book combining amazing stories with superb illustrations from Anthony Jenkins, this book offers 100 anecdotes about why certain NHL players wear the sweater numbers they do. The reasons range from the hilarious to the sublime, but in each case highlight the fact that most numbers are not arbitrary designations but rather important personal reminders of one sort or another.

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MESSIER: DOMINANCE ON ICE

In tribute to the retirement of arguably the game's greatest captain, this book on Messier traces season by season his ascent to greatness, starting with his early days in Edmonton to his Stanley Cup days to his historic win in 1990 as captain of the Oilers, a Cup no one could have foreseen. The story continues in New York where Messier became a hero of that city when he led the Rangers to a Cup in 1994, the city's first in 54 years.

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LORD STANLEY'S CUP

A deluxe, coffee-table book, this publication is the most comprehensive study and history of hockey's greatest trophy. It tells the story of Lord Stanley's coat of arms and how it got onto the Cup, includes stories for every player who ever won the Cup, and has an appendix which features the spelling and appearance of every name to have appeared on every version of the Cup(original bowl, current Cup, replica Cup, retired rings and bands) .

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THE FLAMES: CELEBRATING CALGARY'S DREAM SEASON 2003-04

n instant book produced immediately after the 2004 Stanley Cup finals, this celebrates Calgary's amazing season which saw the team go to game seven of the finals and come within one goal of winning the Stanley Cup. The book appeared on the Globe and Mail's best-seller list for two weeks.

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PLAYERS

Some 1,000 pages and 800,000 words comprise this bible of hockey bibliography, featuring stories of every player who has ever appeared in the NHL, from the one-game wonders to Hall of Famers, from the 1917-18 season through to the 2002-03 season. Obscure facts, unknown stories, personal narratives, and pre- and post-NHL lives make this a unique book in the hockey library of published material.

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THE GOAL

A small and unique book, this 48-page volume compiles some 19 different images of Bobby Orr's famous, diving goal that won the Stanley Cup for Boston in 1970. Each photo is augmented by personal recollections of all the players on the ice at the time--the six Boston players, the six St. Louis players, and the three officials--as well as stories of some of the photographers who captured the great moment.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE MAPLE LEAFS

The first close-up look of a pro sports team for a 24-hour period, this deluxe coffee-table book was produced for the Leafs to celebrate the team's new home, Air Canada Centre. Some 300 colour plates by a dozen of the country's top photojournalists depict what happens at the ACC every minute of game day, from the early morning when security staff arrive, to the arrival of the players and the game itself. Foreword by Ron MacLean, this was a bestseller during the 2002 fall season.

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CANADIAN GOLD 2002

This celebration of the Canadian men's and women's Olympic teams which each won gold in Salt Lake City was published immediately after the double victory in February 2002. It chronicles every game of the Canadian teams and is augmented by colour photographs on virtually every page, including stories about the Salt Lake Loonie, the team's executive, and player profiles of everyone who played for Canada in 2002. A complete list of statistics is included at the back.

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KINGS OF THE ICE

A deluxe, over-sized art book featuring more than 500 player profiles of NHL and international stars of the 20th century, this is, in many ways, the most ambitious hockey book ever published. Each great player is profiled with an essay of 1,000 words or more and for every entry are at least two colour photographs. A CD-Rom is also included with the book, providing shorter bios and action footage of each star.

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HOCKEY'S GREATEST TEAMS

A coffee-table book released in October 2000, this book offers detailed narratives of 15 teams that changed the game, from the 1924 Toronto Granites to the 1997 Detroit Red Wings. Illustrated with full-colour photos throughout, Hockey's Greatest Teams celebrates the game and stirs debate at the same time.

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THE NHL ALL-STAR GAME

The first and only book to celebrate the history of the All-Star Game (which began in 1908 with the Hod Stuart Memorial Game), the NHL All-Star Game commemorates the 50th Game which was played in February 2000 in Toronto, where the first annual game was played, in 1947. It features black-and-white photos throughout and inlcudes the first complete player register as well as game summaries for every memorial and All-Star Game."

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THE GREAT ONE

Published shortly after Wayne Gretzky's retirement, this career study features the compelling life story of arguably the greatest hockey player, complete with both colour and black-and-white photographs throughout, many of which have never been published before. The appendix contains the most complete factual reference to Gretzky's remarkable career, including game-by-game statistics, ever published.

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SHOOTING STARS

Focusing on the Portnoy Collection at the Hockey Hall of Fame, this coffee-table book features 75 spectacular colour plates from the best photo collection of the 1970s. The accompanying stories feature every imaginable aspect of the game from that era, from sweater numbers to goalie masks and rules, to unusual and little-known stories about the game's greatest stars and little-known interlopers.

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PORTRAITS OF THE GAME

A deluxe coffee-table book, this volume celebrates the Turofsky Collection at the Hockey Hall of Fame, the best photographs from the NHL's Original Six years. Complementing these 75 sepia-toned images is text that examines the incomparable photography, the players, and the events of hockey during the post-war years leading up to expansion in 1967.

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HONOURED MEMBERS

A coffee-table book and the official publication of the Hockey Hall of Fame's honour roll, Honoured Members features profiles of hockey's greatest stars. Fully illustrated with colour photos throughout, the book includes the 324 players, builders, and officials who have been honoured by the Hall of Fame in Toronto.

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RETURN TO GLORY

Covering the period 1958 to 1993, Return to Glory provides a detailed narrative history of the Toronto Maple Leafs, from the glory days of Punch Imlach to the nadir of the team under Harold Ballard to the re-emergence of the franchise under GM Cliff Fletcher, coach Pat Burns, and star forward Doug Gilmour. Black-and-white photos and illustrations throughout as well as a statistical appendix are included.

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THE BLUE AND WHITE BOOK

As the cover boasts, this is the most complete Toronto Maple Leafs fact book ever published. At more than 650 pages, it provides the score of every Toronto game as well as just about every other fact a reader might want to know about the franchise, from 1917 to 1995. Black-and-white photos and illustrations throughout.

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THE RED WINGS BOOK

The second in a series, it, too, provides hundreds of pages of facts and stats for the Detroit Red Wings, from the team's inception in 1926 up to 1996. Dozens of black-and-white photographs throughout.

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CANADA'S OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAMS

The first-ever retrospective of Canada's Olympic hockey teams, this book covers every competition from 1920, when hockey was a demonstration sport at the summer Olympics, to 1998, when the NHL shut down to allow its players to participate in the Olmpics in Nagano, Japan. It contains stories from each Olympics, a complete statistical appendix, and two, 16-page colour inserts. Black-and-white photographs throughout.

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HELLO HOCKEY FANS FROM COAST TO COAST

A book of 75 lists, Hello Hockey Fans is chock full of trivia, history, and interesting facts. Sections include lists of the first ten goalies to play for the Los Angeles Kings, to ten famous goalies' first shutouts, to most points by a player in his only NHL season. Black-and-white photos throughout.

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THE THREE STARS AND OTHER SELECTIONS

Following the success of Hello Hockey Fans comes volume two of this popular and trivia-full series for fall 2000. Lists include the greatest Toronto-Montreal trades, first and last goals in Original Six buildings, amazing facts about Hilda Ranscombe, and most games played in one regular season (which, by the way, is 86).

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RED, WHITE, AND GOLD: CANADA AT THE WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

The one and only year-by-year history of Canada's remarkable success at the premier under-20 championship in the world. The book follows the format and structure of Canada's Olympic Hockey Teams, delving into stories and behind-the-scenes accounts of Team Canada, from 1974 when the tournament was by invitation only, through to 1999 when Winnipeg acted as host city and set attendance records. The statistics in the appendix are now used by Hockey Canada as the official records for this tournament.

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THE BLUE AND WHITE BOOK 1997

An update of the bestseller from the previous year, this second edition adds more than 100 pages of new facts and updates statistics through the 1995-96 season.

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THE ESSENTIAL BLUE AND WHITE BOOK

Produced in conjunction with the Leafs for the 2001-02 season, the team's 75th anniversary season, the Essential Blue and White Book picks up where the original left off a few years earlier. All scores and records are updated, new entries are included, and the register section has been revised and expanded.

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PATRICK ROY

The first of a Young Adult series called Hockey Heroes from Greystone Press, Patrick Roy features the life story of the NHL's all-time winningest goalie. From his days as a child when he slept with Daniel Bouchard's goal stick to his meteoric rise in Montreal, this children's book is chock full of colour photographs and fascinating stories.

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PAUL KARIYA

The second in the Hockey Heroes series, the life of Paul Kariya is profiled for fans of the then-Mighty Ducks' superstar. Colour photographs appear on every page, and Kariya's life, from his childhood as the son of Japanese parents through to his entry into the NHL and recovery from a serious concussion, is thoroughly documented. This was nominated for a Red Cedar Award in 2002.

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