by Matthew Dibiase | Nov 26, 2020 | Books, NHL, Product Reviews
Author Perry Lefko is a pro’s pro when it comes sports literature and his resume reflects the plethora of sports topics he has chronicled for the past 35 years. His titles run the gamut from hockey to thoroughbred racing to Canadian Football to curling. This Christmas...
by Matthew Dibiase | Apr 23, 2020 | Books, Hockey History, Montreal Canadiens, NHL, Product Reviews
This writer’s personal motto has always been “History abhors a vacuum”. For much too long there has been a vacuum in the annals of hockey history: a definitive biography of the late Toe Blake. Even though Toe Blake was the greatest coach in NHL history until the...
by Kevin Greenstein | Nov 20, 2019 | Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers, Product Reviews, St. Louis Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs
When speaking about trailblazers in sports, former NHL goaltending great Grant Fuhr is often overlooked. But as the first black goalie in the NHL, the first black player to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup, and the first black player inducted into the Hockey...
by Matthew Dibiase | Nov 9, 2019 | Books, New Jersey Devils, NHL, Product Reviews
Matthew Blittner makes his hockey literature debut with his petit sized volume Unforgettable NJ Devils: Games & Moment from the Press Box, Ice & Front Office. Unforgettable NJ Devils is an oral history of the Devils franchise told from a very unique...
by Kevin Greenstein | May 22, 2019 | Books, Darryl's Dispatch, Detroit Red Wings, Homepage, Olympic Hockey, Product Reviews
Inside Hockey Editor-in-Chief Kevin Greenstein and senior writer Darryl Houston Smith recently watched the documentary The Russian Five, which tells the story of Sergei Fedorov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Slava Kozlov, Slava Fetisov and Igor Larionov joining forces on the...
by Matthew Dibiase | Feb 24, 2018 | Archived Features, Hockey History, NHL, Olympic Hockey, Product Reviews
It’s been 20 years when the Winter Olympics opened its gates and welcomed the NHL’s elite players to compete for Olympic gold in Nagano, Japan in 1998 however, today, in Pyeonchang, South Korea no NHL players are competing and one is left with a sense of psychic...
