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The Best Game You Can Name
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The Best Game You Can Name Hardcover - 2005

by Dave Bidini


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Bidini returns to the game he loves best
In 2004, Dave Bidini laced on his skates and slid onto the ice of Toronto's McCormick Arena to play defence with the Morningstars in the E! Cup tourney. While thrashing around the ice, swiping at the puck and his opponents, Bidini got to thinking about how others see the game. Afterward, he set off to talk to former professional players about their experiences of hockey. The result is vintage Bidini -- an exuberant, evocative, highly personal, and vividly coloured account of his and his team's exploits, interwoven with the voices of such hockey heroes as Frank Mahovlich, Yvan Cournoyer, John Brophy, Steve Larmer, and Ryan Walter. All aspects of the game are up for grabs in "The Best Game You Can Name" -- the sweetest goals, the worst fights, the trades, the off-ice perks and the on-ice rivalries, not to mention the rotten pranks. Bidini and the former players offer sometimes startling observations about the fans, coaches, owners, other players, and the huge rush of being on the ice, stick in hand, giving everything you have to the best game you can name.

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  • Title The Best Game You Can Name
  • Author Dave Bidini
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
  • Date September 6, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780771014598 / 0771014597
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 6.44 x 1.03 in (20.98 x 16.36 x 2.62 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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