Gold
How Gretzky's Men Ended Canada's 50-Year Olympic Hockey Drought

Put a book about Canadian hockey players competing for gold in front of me and it’s impossible to put down. Fantastic book about the greatest hockey nation in the world winning gold in 2002 at the Winter Olympics. True Canadian hockey fans should enjoy this book.......more

I was extremely disappointed. Way too many lists of line combinations, roommates, trophies won, too many game recap summaries and very little “new stuff”. Lots of time spent on inter-connections between players/executives careers. We mostly know that, as hockey at that level is still very much a clo......more

This book is good, but not great. It really could have benefited from better editing. Too much information was getting repeated and a lot of content was just who had already played with who or who knew each other from what past event. Not really all that interesting. It didn’t try and build up to an......more

A good accounting of Canada’s 2002 Olympic hockey story and hockey history. Unfortunately, the story was fairly bland with not much in the way of intrigue or mystery involved. Perhaps it is that the story has been told too many times or that there seems to be little in the way of conflict that makes......more

During the Olympics, reading books about the Olympics was really the only Olympic things I consumed. I found this pretty interesting, but sports are not my favorite subject. It was a bit dry at times as well. 3.1/5......more