Ice Time: The Story of Hockey

by Michael McKinley

Hockey is breathtakingly fast and fascinating. Ice The Story of Hockey ( Temps de l’histoire du hockey ) traces the sport from its hotly contested origins to the present day’s first-ever lockout of players by the one remaining league. It covers the sport’s surge in popularity after 1875, when it moved to inside rinks; the rise and fall, and rise again, of women’s hockey; the sagas of long-lost leagues, such as the Pacific Coast Hockey Association; and more recently the World Hockey Association. Through its lavishly illustrated pages skate the players, the coaches, and the almost forgotten legends who are the reason why we love the game.

Although the book stands alone, it is based on A People’s History , a ten-part CBC/Radio Canada series airing in fall 2006.

Genres: Sports, Young Adult, Hockey

80 pages, Hardcover

First published September 19, 2006

About the author

Michael McKinley is an author, filmmaker, journalist, and screenwriter. A Vancouver native, he was educated at the University of British Columbia, and then at the University of Oxford. As a journalist, he has written for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, and has won national newswriting awards. He has produced several television shows for CNN, History, and the CBC, and is the author of several books, among them Codebreakers: The Secret Intelligence Unit that Changed the Course of the First World War (with James Wyllie) and Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery, the companion book to the CNN TV series he created with David Gibson. He lives in New York City.
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Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actual Rating: 3.5 Stars

I don't actually watch hockey(any sport really). I've watched like maybe two games. Reading this book and seeing how it began was interesting. It started in the 1920s and 1930s and then took off from there. I liked reading about the history and how some of the biggest stars became famous in their time.

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ice time: The Story of Hockey is a nonfiction book about the history of hockey. Throughout the book there are hockey stories organized chronologically in each chapter from the past all the way to the present. It is very moving to see how far hockey has come since its beginning. Michael Mckinley’s writing style is excellent. Each page is descriptive and grabs your attention. He uses his sports writing skills and Canadian background to document the history of hockey. The writing was backed up with pictures which helped you to understand what players and hockey actually looked like. I chose this book because I play hockey and would like to learn a little bit more about this amazing sport. I liked it because it was a quick read and had side note pictures that told about players or other things which aided my learning of the information. The thing I disliked about it was the length of this book. It was way too short and could have been somewhat longer. Michael used his knowledge of the game of hockey and sports figures around this game to write this wonderful book. While I have not read many other books about this subject, this book gave about as much information as I needed to know about the history of hockey. It was written two years ago so the information was up to date. Some of these stories I could relate to and seemed very familiar since I have played hockey for a very long time. I would recommend this book to sports fanatics or people that love hockey. This book was worth reading and you can absorb a gigantic amount of information in such a short book. (286 words)

[Quintan Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hockey is very cool and also very interesting. the book I read was Ice Time: The Story of Hockey. this book describes the sport from the time it started and by the people who started it to the present day from the people who play and the teams that have been created from the old of players by the one remaining league. It talks about the sport hockeys surge in popularity after 1875, when it moved from outside rinks to inside rinks; the rise and fall, and rise again, of women’s hockey; the sagas of long-lost leagues, such as the Pacific Coast Hockey Association; and more recently the World Hockey Association. Through its lavishly illustrated pages skate the players, the coaches, and the most famous legends who are one of the coolest things that I like about hockey along with some of the recent players

[Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although this is a YA/teen book, adult hockey fans will also enjoy it. It is illustrated with photos, advertisements, and pictures of hockey cards and other things. It's also filled with anecdotes about both familiar and unjustly obscure people who have shaped the sport of hockey.

[Michael Mckinley]

Hockey is breathtakingly fast and fascinating. The children’s book Ice Time: The Story of Hockey (published in French as Temps de glace: l’histoire du hockey) traces the sport from its hotly contested origins to the present day’s first-ever lockout of players by the one remaining league.