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Article: Mark Moore, Saving the Game: Pro Hockey's Quest to Raise its Game from Crisis to New Heights.(Book review)
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- Manitoba History
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- October 1, 2006
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Mark Moore, Saving the Game: Pro Hockey's Quest to Raise its Game from Crisis to New Heights Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006, 420 pages. ISBN: 0771064349, $34.99 (hardcover).
Ken Dryden writes his book The Game (republished by Wiley in 2003 in a new edition with a new chapter called "Overtime") as a memoir, the story of nine days during his life as a professional hockey player for the Montreal Canadians. The book is intensely personal as he reflects about his ambivalence about playing longer, revealing his indecision about what to do with his life and his once great team's indecision about what to do with its season. His thoughts turn also to the history of ...