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Chapters.ca is now offering Gare Joyce's inside look at the world of hockey scouting for just $4.99 Future Greats and Heartbreaks reveals a life long passion of studying and analyzing sports drafts, a passion that many fans share. For some fans it is all about hope. Hope of what is to come. For others, like Joyce, it is about academics, which in the sports world doesn't always have a place. You can read my original book review , or click on the following link to directly buy Future Greats and Heartbreaks for just 5 bucks!

Gary Joyce is a literary gift to the sports world. He is just a marvelous writer, able to paint beautiful imagery with his keyboard. And hockey fans should count themselves as very lucky that Joyce accidentally became a hockey writer. That's one the earliest of revelations in his new book Future Greats and Heartbreaks: a Season Undercover in the Secret World of NHL Scouts . He also reveals a life long passion of studying and analyzing sports drafts, a passion that many fans share. For some fans it is all about hope. Hope of what is to come. For others, like Joyce, it is about academics, which in the sports world doesn't always have a place. To further educate himself and his readers, Joyce sets out to explore the tightly locked hidden world of talent scouting. He is in search of the theory behind scouting, looking for trends as surely there must be some careful strategy when handing out million dollar contracts to junior players and college kids. Frankly, there isn't. Appar...