National Hockey League Books

Dan Diamond's annual traversal of every bit of information germane to the National Hockey League and its players is presented in this spectacular tome. No hockey fan anywhere should be without it.

The book not only contains statistical data on every player, every draft choice and every pro prospect out there, it shows every NHL team's draft picks for the past decade. No other single volume provides the wealth of information hockey nuts -- who are among the most driven and possessed fans in all sports -- want to know about.

I've been buying this book annually from Amazon.com the past three years after growing frustration pushed me away from my local mall-based book seller. Hockey is a great sport but so relatively few Americans follow it, compared to baseball or football, that retailers just won't make space available even for this, the holy grail of hockey information. Fortunately, the Internet and Amazon.com fill that gap splendidly.

I turn to this book regularly during Internet chats with fans of my favorite team and other clubs. Last season, my team traded for a young goaltender named Jason Bacashihua. I turned to this book to locate stats from "Cash"'s two prior professional seasons and his two years of junior hockey before that.

Someone with the age-honored name of Conacher recently took a position in the American Hockey League, which is to the NHL was AAA baseball is to Major League Baseball. There was a Conacher playing when I first began following the sport in the 1960s. I used the NHL retiree section of this volume to locate no less than seven Conachers that played in the NHL, including Brian, who played in Toronto and Detroit during the 1960s and 1970s.

It doesn't matter what you want to know about the NHL, it is in this book. No other book out there can make that claim. If you love hockey -- and what fan doesn't? -- you need this book beside you whenever the next NHL season gets under way.

What can I say, I love hockey and rules are easy on the face but truly intricate on deeper inspection. Do you know what constitues goalie interference if a player is moving toward the netminder with the puck and elbows him during the act of shooting? Do you know what is considered too many men on the ice when it seems that, for each line change, the fresh players come off the bench before the outgoing stickers are technically off the ice? Do you know if it is a legitimate goal if a player scores a goal off his kneepad by inadvertantly deflecting an opponenets pass into the net? If you do not care about these types of questions, then might I suggest that you take up badminton. If you do, then keep this little dandy in your pokcet or TV stand for the next game and enjoy it on a whole new level. Who knows, you might be wearing the white and black stripes in your favorite easy chair. Note to book purchasers: whistle not included. Skate hard!

This is a great book for people who want to understand the game. It answers questions from the exact length of the ice, lines on the ice, etc. to the different hand motions on the penalties called by the referee. I give this one 5 stars!!!

After you purchase this product, leaf through the pages. You'll find some well known and some obscure facts about some of the NHL's greatest goalies of all-time.

For instance, did you know that current Anaheim Ducks goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere uses a straw when he drinks from his water bottle during a game? I'll bet you didn't know that Ron Low of the then expansion Washington Capitals was responsible for allowing the most goals in one NHL season. Where were you on December 2, 1950 when Al Rollins and Turk Broda of the Toronto Maple Leafs became the first NHL goalies to share a shutout in one game for their team?

If you're a trivia junkie like me, this book is for you.

I was very pleasantly surprised when my book arrived. Upon opening it, I was extremely happy with the great
photos compiling last seasons action in the NHL. I'm presently tryng to decide which photo will I use as reference for a painting for the entertainment room at home. Great job.


K.F.
Clifton Park, NY

For Ottawa area Senator fans who read "The Ottawa Citizen", the author, Roy McGregor is known for his well written and intersting articles. Roy continues to follow the team today. This book is a historical behind-the-scenes look at the Senators. From Ottawa winning the franchise in 1990, the entry and expansion drafts of 1992 to the dreadful 1992-1993 season. Gives the reader insight on the lives of professional hockey players on & off the ice. Senator fans and hockey fans in general will love the book!!! Remember folks, the is the same man who co-authored the book "The Game" with Ken Dryden which is considered a 'must read' for all hockey fans.

Great format great presentation, terrific photographs, each page a new adventure. Andrew Podnieks is very knowledgeable and a wonderful word weaver.

Awesome book. Really brought back memories of that enchanting season. The photos by Ron Moscotti of the Courier Express were incredible. Did we really dress like that? A must have for any real Sabres fan. Long live the French Connection!

Very informative, updated, and containing full-color photos of past and present US hockey players in the NHL. Great chapter (Chapter 12) on USA Women's hockey - in preparation for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.

I bought this as a gift for a friend. He loves it, often quoting some of the stories in it. Great for hockey lovers!

As a recreational hockey player and avid hockey fan by night and publications editor by day, I found this book to be boring and over the top. His anecdotes about NHL enforcers are sanitized to a "Family Channel"- level style of writing, about as pointless and meaningless as an Eminem CD edited for Christian radio stations. In keeping with the Mighty Ducks/Disney/Mickey Mouse squeaky-clean environment he works in, his words, even his direct quotes, are cleansed, leaving only adjectives along the lines of "making comments about my ancestors" as a euphemism for swearing, a phrase only my own ancestors used. If you can't talk the talk, Lloyd, then write the scripts for the MVP sequels.
Readers, buy the book "Goon" instead for real-life hockey experiences told as they happenend - blood, guts, and all.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to sit in the "sin bin" with the players?? Have you ever wondered what they say to each other and to the officials?? This book gets you into the sin bin without threatening your life. Lloyd Freeberg is an off-ice official. He has spent time in the penalty box with the likes of Bob Probert, Kris Draper and even Wayne Gretzky. There is even a chapter on some weird superstitions of hockey players. Read about his most embarrassing moment as an official, and his most dangerous times in the penalty box. For Red Wing fans- there's a chapter on Kris Draper and one on Bob Probert (former Wing). Everything from smuggling pucks to kicking the bucket where the pucks are kept to throwing chairs to insults is in this book--from first hand experience. I kept wanting to share everything I read with my family, and the book kept me laughing and wanting more. If your one of those fans who loves the fights and/or wonders what is said in the penalty boxes, this book is for you.

My boyfriend bought this book for himself and after hearing him laugh to the point of tears every time he opened it up, I decided to have a look. Freeberg painted a picture of hockey I had never really thought existed: a picture of real people and their lives and antics and mess ups and fall downs.... I am really glad I picked it up, I kinda have a different view of the game and it's participants now. Highly reccomended!

What can I say about this book. At first, I thought it was a good book. As I read on, I began to accept the fact that it was a very good book. By the time I finished, I had come to the conclusion that In the Bin is one of the greatest books to cover any sport, not just hockey. Just a truly amazing look at a few different angles of the game that we don't get to see very often.

Lloyd Freeberg's writing style has more moves than a Mario Lemieux breakaway. I was constantly being amuzed at the different stories he told, he has a great sence of humor and timing. Though the accompaning pictures are in black & white, they are superb. The variety of things Freeberg writes about caught me off gaurd. I thought that the book would focus only on penalty box incidents dealing primarily with goons from around the league. I was pleasantly suprised when I began reading about mascots, superstars, zambonis, goal judges, fans, referees and even arenas. The diversity was not only entertaining, but enlightening as well.

With stories of all types constructed with skill similar to that of Paul Kariya's stick handling, In the Bin delivers as much excitement as an overtime playoff goal. I loved every word of this book and I wouldn't hesitate to read another book by Freeberg, nor will I hesitate to suggest this book to anyone.