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  The gift
book of the year for hockey fans: Roy MacGregor has been called "the best hockey writer in the country," and we finally
have a collection of his very best hockey writing, revised and updated.
  
  For nearly 40 years Roy MacGregor
has brought hockey, our national sport, alive on the page. From tales of the game's greats (Guy Lafleur, Jean Beliveau,
Marcel Dionne) to today's stars (Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Daniel and Henrik Sedin), his magazine and newspaper
coverage has revealed so much about these and so many other personalities, in moments of promise, victory and defeat.
While many of these stories play out on the ice, some of the most compelling take place on the home front (Mario
Lemieux's battle against cancer, the many tribulations of Bob Gainey), and MacGregor's prose shines especially when
focused on the human side of a sport defined by superhuman feats of speed, aggression and power.
  
  Wayne
Gretzky's Ghost will be a personal book, and also a book of challenging ideas: that Wayne Gretzky, through no fault of
his own, was the worst thing to happen to hockey; that CBC's Hockey Night in Canada has lost sight of what it is; that
goaltending has become a position out of all proportion to what was intended. And who could offer a better perspective
on the game than a writer who, playing as a youngster, had to face an onrushing phenom from Parry Sound named Bobby Orr,
or who spent a year ghostwriting a national newspaper column for the Great One himself? When it comes to hockey, Roy
MacGregor has seen (and in some cases, done) it all.
  
  Product Description
  Review
 
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
   
  “The Harper government should just go ahead and designate Roy MacGregor a
national treasure and be done with it…. He’s the best writer around whose subject happens to be
hockey…. MacGregor shows why he’s the best at chronicling Canada’s game.”
 
—Ottawa Citizen
   
  “The nation’s most incisive and interesting writer on the game and
its hold on us.”
  —The Globe and Mail
  
  “The closest thing there is to a poet
laureate of Canadian hockey.”
  —The Washington Post
   
  “He brings a
rare—and trust me, admirable—touch to his work.”
  —Edmonton Journal
   
 
“MacGregor has a unique ability to balance objective reportage with a keen, emotional core; he has a good eye for
the human interest angle, which intensifies his editorial thrust, rather than distracting from it.”
 
—Ottawa Citizen
   
  “Roy MacGregor’s friendly wit, acute observations, sympathy for
people, innate curiosity, delightful modesty, and love of country have made him the reader of our national soul and
diviner of our foibles, par excellence.”
  —Jeffrey Simpson
   
  “Peter
Gzowski’s gone and both Douglas Coupland and Will Ferguson are a bit too young yet, so that should probably hand
the print title of Captain Canada to Roy MacGregor—if he weren’t so deserving of it anyways, for both
craft and heart.”
  —Toronto Star
  About the Author
  ROY MacGREGOR is the acclaimed
and bestselling author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons & Hockey (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award);
A Life in the Bush (winner of the US Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and
Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People, as well as two novels, Canoe Lake and The Last Season, and the
popular Screech Owls mystery series for young readers. A regular columnist at The Globe and Mail, MacGregor's journalism
has garnered four National Magazine Awards and eight National Newspaper Award nominations. He is an Officer of the Order
of Canada, and was described in the citation as one of Canada's "most gifted storytellers." His most recent book is
Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him. He lives in Kanata. 
  
 
Publisher: Random House Canada (1 November 2011)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10:
0307357414
  ISBN-13: 978-0307357410
  
  Most Helpful Customer
Reviews
  
  best writing on hockey 24 January 2012
  By Brian Maitland - Published on
Amazon.com
  Roy MacGregor is Canada's best writer on hockey, and this is a compilation of his best articles
on the sport from various magazines and newspapers he's been published in.
  
  The book is broken up into
sections and the best are when he writes on the Legends of the Game and Stars of now. You learn so much that really I
wonder why I'm not checking the Ottawa Citizen Web site every week. Who knew "Burnaby" Joe Sakic really is Vancouver Joe
and only played his minor hockey in Burnaby? He grew up in Vancouver. I knew Guy Lafleur was a smoker but he used to
smoke in the between-period intermissions. He's the first writer I've ever seen explain kids' affection towards
Alexander Ovechkin's style of play. We also learn the real family reason why grandpa Jean Beliveau turned down Canada's
Governor General posting. You thought Beliveau was the epitome of class already. His actions in this case choosing his
family over country are beyond honorable and really the man should be sainted.
  
  MacGregor also understands
the game and the beauty of international play better than any sportswriter around. He's the first writer I've read who
"got" how good the Nagano '98 Team Canada team was and put the whole thing in Hasekian perspective.
  
  The
great thing about the book is there is so much in here that is so current from articles on the Sedins, Ryan Kesler, Drew
Doughty, Kris Letang. Marc Savard (pre-concussion), Alexei Kovalev, Canada at the Olympics both men's and women's teams
and the World Junior Tournaments including the meltdown vs. Russia in 2010.
  
  Finally, the piece de
resistance is his criticism of the way Hockey Night in Canada seems stuck in the past. The funny thing I think MacGregor
does not touch on is, being out here in the West, I don't really know anyone who sees HNIC as must-see TV ever since the
advent of TSN and Sportsnet carrying games-a-go-go. After all who really wants to watch the Make Beliefs every Saturday
when you get Blackhawks, Red Wings, Flyers, Pens, Caps, Rangers, what have you all week long. Let alone once you get the
NHL Centre Ice package, HNIC becomes totally irrelevant. 
  
  one of the best and most detalied books
i've ever read 23 July 2012
  By annonymus - Published on Amazon.com
  I absolutely loved this book and
I would recommend this to hockey or sports fan for that matter. the writing is superb and the detail that was put into
this is so spot on that if your a fan of this guys writing you would not be disappointed. I love how the characters are
portrayed by him are so true to how they actually spot on with what they are in real life. this is a fictional story but
all of the numbers and facts are spot on. totally worth reading for any old school hockey fans or sport fans in
general. 
  
   						

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