Product Description

This is a memoir about the timeless magic of growing up playing hockey on the frozen lakes, rivers and ponds of the northern United States and Canada. California-based sports writer Brian Kennedy, who covers the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks of the NHL, calls his book "an autobiography of anyone who ever loved the game."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #585690 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.05" h x 5.58" w x 8.40" l, .80 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 369 pages

Ron MacLean, Hockey Night in Canada, CBC-TV, October 1, 2007
Because Brian so captures the way we come to hockey, the tug of war issues such as reason versus emotion that we all wrestle with in trying to shape either the game or our approach to living you'll feel as if he's written your story, not his.

Jack Falla, author of "Home Ice," August 5, 2007
If "only an honest book can live," as Emerson said, then Growing Up Hockey is immortal. It's the story of everyone who plays or cares about the game. It's warm reading for a cold night. Or any night.

Joe Fries, Dawson Creek Daily News, September 6, 2007
Subtitling a new book about Canada's favourite sport, "the life and times of everyone who ever loved the game" is pretty ambitious, but in his new book, "Growing Up Hockey," author Brian Kennedy hits the mark.