The Nhl: 100 Years Of On-ice Action And Boardroom Battles

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This is the story of two perpetual struggles - the one on the ice and the one going on behind the scenes to keep the whole enterprise afloat. D'Arcy Jenish was granted unprecedented access to previously unpublished league files, and conducted dozens of hours of interviews with league executives, including commissioner Gary Bettman and former president John Ziegler, as well as well as owners, coaches, general managers and player representatives. He now reveals for the first time the true story behind some of the most significant events of the contemporary era.

"D'ARCY JENISH is the author of Epic Wanderer- David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West, the award-winning Indian Fall- The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy and the bestselling The Stanley Cup- A Hundred Years of Hockey at its Best and The Montreal Canadiens- 100 Years of Glory. He is also co-editor of Canada on Ice- Fifty Years of Great Hockey."

"Hockey is a game oft-told tale--yet there is much still in the vaults. D'Arcy Jenish has ransacked the archives to pull together a unique chronicle of people, places and events that shaped the NHL. Augmented with dozens of fresh interviews and reflections, this is a book that challenges conventions about what we think we know while revealing a great deal heretofore unknown. It deserves a place in every serious hockey fan's library." --Rosie DiManno, author of Coach: The Pat Burns Story