As the editor of Backhand Shelf, I receive a good number of hockey books to review. I try to get to them all, and most certainly, I try to share the good ones I come across. Today I returned back from Thanksgiving to find Liam Maguire’s “Next Goal Wins! – The ultimate NHL historian’s one-of-a-kind collection of hockey trivia” on my desk, and man, is it a beauty. I got lost in it for hours.
Chapters include “Defunct team trivia,” “Stanley Cup ancecdotes,” “Firsts and lasts,” “Best of the best” and a handful of others. The following five questions (and answers) are from his 50-part section “My top questions” at the end of the book.
You can buy the book for under $20 here if you’re into the history of hockey. It’s a pretty cool read. You can also check out his website here, and follow him on Twitter here.
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Before you read the questions, feel free to see if you can answer any on your own. These are all excerpts directly from the book, and were largely new to me. Be warned: I chose a few Gretzky-centric ones.
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