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Stephen Brunt is one of my favorite writers, so that helps to raise my expectations even higher of what should already be a fascinating story on to itself - Jordin Tootoo's autobiography, All the Way: My Life On Ice Buy The Book -  Amazon.ca  - Chapters - Amazon.com From The Publisher: It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain of Canada’s Under-18, a fan favourite on the World Junior squad, and a WHL top prospect who could intimidate both goalies and enforcers, he was always a leader. And when Tootoo was drafted by Nashville in 2000 and made the Predators out of camp in 2003, he became a leader in another way: the first player of Inuk descent to suit up in the NHL. The stress of competition in the world’s top hockey league, the travel, the media, the homesickness—and the added pressure to hold one’s head high as a role model not only for the young people of his hometown of Rankin Inlet but for the culture that had given him the ...

It may have been the most important single day, the most significant event in modern hockey history. The consequences of that day are still be felt today. On August 9th, 1988 Peter Pocklington, owner of the Edmonton Oilers, traded/sold the greatest player in the history of the game - Wayne Gretzky. For hockey, and for Canada, that was the day that changed everything. That day is the focus of Stephen Brunt's latest book Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed . Buy The Book: | Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com | Brunt needs no introduction. He is Canada's leading sports columnist, writing with a rare gift of eloquence for sports writers. The Globe and Mail writer has written seven other books, including Searching for Bobby Orr and Facing Ali . With such a reputation expectations are high for Brunt's newest text. Gretzky's Tears is the most highly anticipated hockey book of 2009. Does it live up to all those lofty promises? The ...

Scheduled for paperback release on October 26th is Stephen Brunt's Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed . - Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters -  Amazon.com Brunt takes a look at the day Wayne Gretzky was traded and the continuing aftermath over 20 years later. Here's the original book review . The paperback release features a whole new chapter, focusing on the whole Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy case and Gretzky's tangled involvement with the franchise. Gretzky's golden touch is finally, through now real fault of his own, tainted and he all but disappears into hockey's shadow. But when Gretzky reappears at the 2010 Olympics as the final torch bearer, Gretzky instantly resumes the role Canada needs him to be in, so says Brunt. Gretzky is Canada's favorite son, and no matter what he does, we will always hold him in a necessary heroic vision. Just like Bobby Orr before. Just like, it certainly appears, Sidney Crosby now. That ...

Last week I reviewed the new book Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed . This week I've got an exclusive interview with the author, Stephen Brunt. Brunt talks about the trade, the impact, and what's next for Wayne Gretzky. Buy The Book: | Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com | Read The Book Review Is the Wayne Gretzky trade the most important event in hockey history in the modern history of the game? I guess it depends on how you want to describe “modern”. I’d say that 1967 expansion was even bigger, but perhaps I’m showing my age in describing the Sixties as part of the modern era. Since then, with the possible exception of the formation of the WHA and the subsequent merger, and perhaps the arrival of the first European players, I’d say that the Gretzky trade had more influence on shaping the NHL as we know it than any other single event. By leaving Edmonton in the summer of 1988, Gretzky transcended the game worldwide, especially in the United S...

If there is one person who should be ecstatic about Gretzky's current plight it would be author Stephen Brunt. His newest book, Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed , is due out in early October. All of this headline news can only be good for book sales. Coincidentally, I received my advance copy of the text for HockeyBookReviews.com . I've already devoured half of it, and I can assure you it is good. Very good. Pre-Order: | Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com |

Stephen Brunt's Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed may be the most anticipated hockey book of 2009. Buy The Book - | Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com | Brunt was talking books with Bob McCown on Toronto's Fan 590 sports radio show Prime Time Sports. He does not go into the Gretzky's Tears book too much, but listening to the two of them talk about sports books was a real treat. Here's the podcast link , with the opening 15 or so minutes being of interest here. One correction for McCown and Brunt: Late in the conversation they ask whether a fiction sports book could ever be a top seller in Canada, and they dismiss that notion. Actually, I believe the best selling sports book in Canadian history is a fictional story: Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater .

This is the early cover image release for what will be one of the most eagerly anticipated books of 2009. Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed is written by Stephen Brunt, the fine Globe & Mail columnist and author of the critically acclaimed 2007 release Searching for Bobby Orr . Brunt dissects the continuing aftermath of the biggest trade in NHL history, looking at the many angles the world of hockey changed after Wayne Gretzky was sold from Edmonton to Los Angeles. Pre-Order: | Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com | Interestingly, the book will be sold in the United States with the title Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, America and the Day Everything Changed . Mr. Brunt tells me the two books are basically the same texts, with the American version slightly altered to clarify Canadian cultural differences. By the way, Mr. Brunt's book will not be the only book looking at the Gretzky Trade. In fact, there is another book coming that is written by th...

I was surprised to see Stephen Brunt's latest book Searching for Bobby Orr out on paperback already. It is also available in hardcover , and later in 2007 it will be available in mass-market paperback . Brunt's biography was the class of the 2006-07 hockey book season, bar none. I am a notoriously slow reader, but I devoured this book in only a couple of days. It is a super-easy read but retains the high literary quality that escapes so many hockey biographical books. A super job by Mr. Brunt , one of Canada's top hockey journalists, and beautifully designed by the folks at Knopf Canada and Random House . Searching for Bobby Orr is the perfect title. Everyone knows of Bobby Orr , but so few actually know him. This book allows readers from every generation to find out for themselves who Bobby Orr, hockey player and, to a lesser degree, person, was. Brunt represents a generation that grew up idolizing Orr. I've seen reviews from that generation which suggest the book of...