Thanks for helping me to understand "The Game". Accustomed to success, the team had achieved so much that there was no place higher to go, and they stutter step through the season. Give ’em quiplash hee hee hee.” We may have to stay home and stay still, but through t...Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by "Sports Illustrated" as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, "The Game" is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey. Need some help? I’m sure I’ll take some criticism for saying this, but I just don’t understand why Ken Dryden’s The Game is considered by most to be the best hockey book ever written and by Sports Illustrated to be one of the greatest sports books ever written. I truly hope from the bottom of my heart that this book garners the same attention and readership. Ken Dryden's book The Game received praise from critics upon its publication. I do know that he didn’t seem to have much of a passion for the game, something he basically admits from the beginning. Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by "Sports Illustrated" as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, "The Game" is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey. Here is a book that has meant so much to me, a book that is so beautifully written, that puts you there in his final season with the Canadiens, that explains so much about the state of his mind, the state of the game of hockey, a book that is so human that we find ourselves in its pages.Now, trying to write about this book, I realize that it is as impossible to describe as it is to tell a someone who hasn't felt it what love, passion, fear or melancholy is like. My son and husband are big Habs fans, so this book helped me develop a better understanding of some of the big names they like to throw around. His personality sketches are endearing and his views on the institution of the NHL unflinching. Dryden is so uninspiring a player and so uninspiring and dull a person that I have no idea how he accomplished the few, puny things he accomplished in his pathetically few years in the league. This book really gives you a glimpse into all aspects of Hockey. He writes that he could see the wheels coming off the Montreal dynasty his last year, so basically he bailed on the team rather than sail through rough waters.

Game Change is an inspiring tribute to a remarkable man, Steve Montador, who was a professional hockey player whose premature death at age 35 has been attributed to brain injuries sustained while playing. Most of my favorite players have played 10, 12, 15, 18 years in the league. Recommended, and for a hockey fan highly recommended.The Game was a good read about all things in life and not just about hockey.

I would argue that its the best sports book that I've ever read besides tomes on fly fishing that seem to transcend sport and are really stories about life but someone could argue about it with me. I was reminded of that ineluctable fact of Canadian life the last time I was in Quebec City, when I walked through the historic downtown section of the walled Québécois capital and observed that the shopping district was home to two sports-memorabilia stores – one for hockey, and one for every other sport. His rich descriptions of a period of action, the first intermission and the teammates and coaches who have made his time in the sport so fulfilling are amazing, and I will not dispute that this is the best book ever written about hockey.I've read this book three times over the years, and although it is often said by many, it truly is one of the best if not THE best hockey book ever written. Dryden wrote this himself. Now my dream is finished. 0470835842 It would have been a different book had it been written about the season before. Kenneth Wayne "Ken" Dryden is a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender.

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Oh sure, like every Canadian kid, he said he liked to play every day growing up, but unlike every other Canadian kid, he didn’t even grow up playing ICE hockey! Hey, we could do it together. It is interesting that it talked about everything the game is from players and teams to strategy and even the economics of it. Not just a sports book - a relevant commentary, remotely spiritual at times.This is the best sports book I have ever read. It is interesting that it talked about everything the game is from players and teams to strategy and even the economics of it. With that going for it, I was bored for most of the novel. I started out on my iPad. The whole book really holds up well to the test of time as well.Liked this book more than I expected I would. My friend was so proud that heFor me a tough read as I am not really a sports fan. This is a great book. KIRKUS REVIEW Ex-hockey-player Dryden's memoir/meditation begins on the day, a few years back, when he announced his definite retirement from the game--after nearly a decade with the Montreal Canadiens as semi-star goalie. Was he really a money player? I didn’t even make it a full 100 pages into the book before I became so disgusted with this wimp of a man, this pathetic excuse for an athlete and a human being that I gave up on this autobiography and am left wondering why this has a 4.09 rating on Goodreads and why I have read all of these five star reviews. Published first in 1983, it followed on the end of his career by a few years, his name still close enough to the tip of the tongue that it rolled easily into conversation. Mordecai Richler wrote "Dryden has written a very special book, possibly the best hockey book I have ever read. I would argue that its the best sports book that I've ever read besides tomes on fly fishing that seem to transcend sport and are really stories about life but someone could argue about A salesman that I met in Point Clear Alabama told me about his love for the Montreal Canadians and he asked if I had ever read "The Game" by Ken Dryden. Ken Dryden was the star goalie for the team that won the league championship for most of the years in the 1970s. Dryden’s thought is insightful, reflective, and intelligent; his prose clear, effectively detailed, and well structured.