Hockey Books

I asked the (usually) nice folks over at the Wild message board to give me their favorite hockey book recommendations and got a great response. My Wish List overfloweth...

Anyway, several of them are out of print and only available used, so I decided to go ahead and snag those, plus a few of the newer ones, and then a pre-order. Here's what I got:

• Sawchuk: The Troubles and Triumphs of the World's Greatest Goalie by David Dupuis which I got in anticipation of the book I pre-ordered: Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs, which is an entire book of poetry about Terry Sawchuk and goaltending. Click the link and read the sample from it. Really excited about that.
• In the Bin: Reckless and Rude Stories from the Penalty Boxes of the NHL by Lloyd Freeberg
• The Code: The Unwritten Rules Of Fighting And Retaliation In The NHL by Ross Bernstein
• The Hammer: Confessions of a Hockey Enforcer by Dave Schultz
• Enforcer: With a Foreword by Link Gaetz by Valerie J. Wood

And there are still 9 more books on my Amazon wish list that I want to read and one that is only available (at a reasonable price) in Canada. But they're all in print, so I'm not as anxious to make sure I get them. I'll be sure to review all of these here as I get thru them.