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Hockey is not only Canada's national pastime but its enduring passion. In this collection of fourteen real-life stories, authors Andrew Caddell and Dave Stubbs explore the many different sides of the game. In ""The Girl"" you'll meet a young woman who helped pave the way for the stars of today's women's game, while in ""The Gentleman"" a spinster aunt's lifelong wish comes true when she meets Habs superstar Jean Béliveau. ""The Rink"" details the uniquely Canadian fascination with creating the perfect backyard skating surface, while in ""The Nation"" Andrew Caddell ponders the age-old question: Can a lifelong Canadiens fan embrace Leafs nation? Ten other stories add nuance and depth to this compelling look at our national game.

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There's a sweet wistfulness to many of the stories in The Goal. They hearken back to a simpler time, when people played shinny on backyard rinks. In The Rink, Caddell describes the first backyard rink he built, as a boy, in the winter of 1963--complete with bumps and hills--and the rinks he built years later for his children Jack and Emily. The backyard skating rink is 'not gold, but silver, ' he writes. 'It can't be held in your hand, yet its memory will remain in your heart for many years. There are days you might curse it and others you will worship it.' --Susan Schwartz, Features Editor, The Montreal Gazette Sports aficionados Andrew Caddell, Dave Stubbs and the late Philip Caddell have crafted a delightful collection of short stories on Canada's national sport. The ... stories in The Goal are, according to the authors, all true. That may well be, but the skillful prose of these writers intimates at times a tinge of nostalgic skating around the real events, putting The Goal on par with the best of Canadian hockey story-telling, both fiction and non-fiction. --The Ottawa Review of Books Caddell and his co-authors have a clear gift for spinning yarns and capturing the experience of playing hockey in Canada; readers will feel as though they themselves were thrust into the cold that penetrates goalies' legs as they stand guard, helpless against the wind coming in off the St. Lawrence River. --The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph In this charming little book, Andrew Caddell and Dave Stubbs tell the tales of ordinary people and their fascination with hockey and its heroes. Tales, mostly, of Quebec lore, childhood dreams and outdoor ice. --Wayne Scanlan, Ottawa Citizen The Goal: Stories about our National Passion, is a collection of short stories about hockey and life. Written by Caddell, with stories contributed by Montreal Gazette columnist Dave Stubbs, the collection is based on actual events. All of the stories are filled with symbolism that spreads messages of fighting adversity, enjoying camaraderie and playing fair. --Jamie Orchard, Focus Montreal, Global Television

There's a sweet wistfulness to many of the stories in The Goal. They hearken back to a simpler time, when people played shinny on backyard rinks. In The Rink, Caddell describes the first backyard rink he built, as a boy, in the winter of 1963--complete with bumps and hills--and the rinks he built years later for his children Jack and Emily. The backyard skating rink is 'not gold, but silver, ' he writes. 'It can't be held in your hand, yet its memory will remain in your heart for many years. There are days you might curse it and others you will worship it.' --Susan Schwartz, Features Editor, The Montreal Gazette Sports aficionados Andrew Caddell, Dave Stubbs and the late Philip Caddell have crafted a delightful collection of short stories on Canada's national sport. The ... stories in The Goal are, according to the authors, all true. That may well be, but the skillful prose of these writers intimates at times a tinge of nostalgic skating around the real events, putting The Goal on par with the best of Canadian hockey story-telling, both fiction and non-fiction. --The Ottawa Review of Books Caddell and his co-authors have a clear gift for spinning yarns and capturing the experience of playing hockey in Canada; readers will feel as though they themselves were thrust into the cold that penetrates goalies' legs as they stand guard, helpless against the wind coming in off the St. Lawrence River. --The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph In this charming little book, Andrew Caddell and Dave Stubbs tell the tales of ordinary people and their fascination with hockey and its heroes. Tales, mostly, of Quebec lore, childhood dreams and outdoor ice. --Wayne Scanlan, Ottawa Citizen The Goal: Stories about our National Passion, is a collection of short stories about hockey and life. Written by Caddell, with stories contributed by Montreal Gazette columnist Dave Stubbs, the collection is based on actual events. All of the stories are filled with symbolism that spreads messages of fighting adversity, enjoying camaraderie and playing fair. --Jamie Orchard, Focus Montreal, Global Television

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Andrew Caddell has worked as a reporter and broadcaster as well as for the federal government and the UN. He plays old-timers' hockey twice a week, and is a sometime goaltender. Dave Stubbs, for many years a columnist and sportswriter with the Montreal Gazette, now writes an online column and serves as historian-in-residence for NHL.com.

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