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Ice Storm: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Vancouver Canucks Team Ever Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com From the publisher ... "An incendiary inside look at the Canucks' meteoric rise to the top of the NHL and their dramatic post-riot fall to mediocrity—all at a time when new efforts are being launched to save the once-great team. In 2008, the Vancouver Canucks were Team Modern, revolutionizing the NHL under their new GM, former player agent Mike Gillis. Cool, calculating, and unsparing with the media, the onetime number one draft pick of the old Colorado Rockies swept away the tangled psychological past of the Canucks with bold innovation, remodeling Vancouver as a destination city for NHL star players. To do so, he built the Canucks from a non-playoff team in 2008 to the best in hockey from 2010-2012. He modernized the players' diets and psychological approach, he rebuilt the dressing room, and he sought sleep consultants to help with the C...

As they do every year, the National Hockey League and Fenn/M&S had prepared all spring for a quick-to-market book about the 2011 Stanley Cup champions. A couple of weeks after the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup, they released The Year of the Bruins . Of course, the editors had to be equally prepared for the eventuality that the Vancouver Canucks had won the Cup. Using the same template and format, they prepared just such a book. They even made the mistake of releasing the cover and listing it online. Take a look . That book never made it to market, needless to say. But after having the book prepared minus the storybook ending, the NHL and publishers decided to cash in on the Canadian marketplace and release the book as  Celebrating the 2010-2011 Season of the Vancouver Canucks . Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com That's nice of the, although I'm sure every Vancouver Canucks fan would tell you they would much rather have seen the book that was never...

Greystone Books is excited to announce that it has teamed up with The Province and The Vancouver Sun to publish A Thrilling Ride: The Vancouver Canucks' Fortieth Anniversary Season  — a lavishly illustrated tribute to the Vancouver Canucks’ historic march through a sensational season that left them one win away from the Stanley Cup. Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters The Vancouver Canucks' game 7 loss in the Stanley Cup final left a bitter taste in the mouths of Canucks fans. Such a bitter taste that it is so easy to forget that the Canucks enjoyed their greatest season in franchise history. Forgotten in all the disappointment are some of the greatest memories Canucks fans have ever had. That's what is great about  A Thrilling Ride: The Vancouver Canucks' Fortieth Anniversary Season . The book therapeutically allows Vancouver fans to relive the great campaign that was full of celebrated highs and historic achievements. In that sense, this book is almost a must...

Vancouver Canucks fans wish this book was a reality. Chapters actually has a listing for it, although it does say "temporarily unavailable for order." Mind you, the publishing date is 2035. That's an awfully long time away Canucks fans. Amazon.ca Widgets