Canuck faithful heartbreak

Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on October 16, 2024 Never Boring: The Up and Down History of the Vancouver Canucks by Ed Willes Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2024 $28.95 / 9781990776892 Over the first fifty-four years of their existence, the Vancouver Canucks made it to the Stanley Cup final three times. As everyone knows, they lost all three—the last two going seven games. In 2011 against the Boston Bruins, the…

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Goaltender, heal thyself

Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on The British Columbia Review on November 11, 2022 The Save of My Life: My Journey Out of the Dark by Corey Hirsch, with Sean Patrick Conboy Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2022 $32.99 / 9781443461092 * It must be hard to write a good topical hockey book these days. The goalposts, as it were, keep shifting on the zeitgeist as Canada’s national sport transforms with every breaking news story. A decade…

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