Contents Prologue Introduction: Big Game
Player
Part 1: Becoming a Legend 1 Growing up in the Hudson’s Bay
Company 2 The Move to Montreal 3 Go West Young
Man 4 Going Pro 5 Small Town Glory 6 A Fight to
the Finish 7 Back to the Big City 8 A Wanderer Who
Wanders 9 Money Madness 10 High Pay Leads to Hard
Knocks 11 More Money Madness 12 Fighting the Salary
Cap 13 A New Hockey War 14 Peace, War … and a Real
War 15 Banned for Life … For a While 16 Memorable
Moments 17 End of the Line 18 Life Goes On
Part 2: Building the Bruins 19 On to Boston 20 Growing
Pains 21 Buying a Better Team 22 New Rules, New
Invention, and a New Job 23 A Big Year in Boston 24
Practice Doesn’t Quite Make Perfect 25 Battling the Great
Depression 26 The Ace Bailey Incident 27 Big
Changes 28 Back on Top … Twice! 29 World War Too
30 The War Years 31 Postwar Challenges 32 Hockey
Immortality 33 A Great Loss to the Game
Epilogue Acknowledgements Appendix: Career Statistics A
Note on the Sources Selected Bibliography Index
Eric Zweig is a managing editor with Dan Diamond & Associates, consulting publisher to the National Hockey League. His books include Fever Season, Tough Guys: Hockey Rivals in Times of War and Disaster, Star Power: The Legend and Lore of Cyclone Taylor, and, most recently, Twenty Greatest Hockey Goals. He lives in Owen Sound, Ontario.
It’s a big, fat slice of hockey past, one of those books that will
delight those who consider themselves scholars of the game.
*Sun Times*
…a superb addition to any hockey library…one of the most readable
hockey historians [with] the books to prove it.
*The Fischler Report*
Zweig does fine work, breathing life into 100-plus-year-old
details; his descriptions of Stanley Cup matches from the era of
the rover and the "60-minute men" manage to evoke the excitement of
those bygone times, while his detailed analysis of the power
struggles and high drama in which Ross was fully involved in the
early days of the NHL, and the National Hockey Association before
it, are both educational and entertaining, even if the reader has
little to no prior knowledge of the subject.
*Winnipeg Free Press*
Painstaking research by one of the best in the business on one of
hockey's most influential pioneers.
*Toronto Sun*
No one would believe this wild tale if it were a movie … A child of
the Canadian wilderness, who may well have been the country’s
greatest athlete, becomes a player, coach, manager, and inventor
who likely affected the game of hockey more than anyone else. Those
who say they should change the Art Ross Trophy to a more
recognizable name would cringe in embarrassment after reading Eric
Zweig’s magnificent biography.
*Roy MacGregor, bestselling author and Globe and Mail
Columnist*
A fascinating read. In fact, when I started reading it I could
hardly put it down until I completed it. What a pioneer Art Ross
was … a great story.
*Scotty Bowman, Hockey Hall of Fame builder and the winningest
coach in NHL history*
With his wonderful, many-layered, anecdote-rich study of Art Ross,
author Eric Zweig does a masterful job of profiling an important
figure who was a player, coach, executive, inventor, and innovator
during the professional game’s crucial, formative years. In
Montreal, more than 50 years after Ross’s passing, this hockey
pioneer has been forgiven — almost — for having been an architect
in the building of the Boston Bruins.
*Dave Stubbs, Montreal Gazette*
It is hard to talk about the history of hockey without mentioning
the name Art Ross … from being a player, coach, manager, and on-ice
official, to the history of the goalie net, to having a trophy
named after him … just to name a few things Art Ross did over his
years. Zweig has uncovered some great stories. A must for all
hockey fans.
*Phil Pritchard, Vice President and Keeper of the Stanley Cup,
Hockey Hall of Fame*
A diligently researched portrait of a canny, controversial,
colourful hockey icon. Recognition for a hockey genius long
overdue. As Cherry would say, “Two thumbs up, Eric!”
*Brian McFarlane, bestselling author and former sportscaster*
I enjoyed it very much. I had no idea Art Ross had been such an
athlete in his day before he came to Boston. I think this book
really has a place in Canadian history, in hockey history, and in
NHL history. It was fascinating.
*Harry Sinden, former coach, general manager, and president of the
Boston Bruins*
No, Art Ross didn’t invent hockey. You can forget that, sometimes,
reminded of the extent to which he shaped the game we know today.
On the ice, he was skilled and as wily a goal-scoring defender as
there’s ever been. Off it, a tireless innovator of rules and
equipment, he also coached, managed, and gave the Boston Bruins the
feisty spirit that defines them still. It’s high time his
formidable tale was told; Eric Zweig does it with a vim and an eye
for detail that delights the fan in me as much as the
historian.
*Stephen Smith, author of Puckstruck*
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