Veteran Boston goaltender Jean Pierre Savard sees stardom and the money it brings as fate’s make-up call for a life in which he lost his father, his wife, and most of his self confidence for anything not involving saves or sex. 
Now late in his career, Savard and his teammate and best friend, Cam Carter, are trying to fulfill their boyhood dreams of winning a Stanley Cup before they retire. A surprise late-season trade pits the friends against each other in a playoff series both could lose but only one can win. 
Saved takes the reader into the rinks, dressing rooms, planes, buses, and hotels that are the backdrop to the long grind of an NHL season. That grind is made bearable by the likes of players such as Bruno Govoni, whose cell phone ring tone is the orgasmic moaning of a porn star Loretta (Lash) LaRue; of Phil “Flipside” Palmer, the only person besides the Kingsmen who knows all the words to “Louie Louie”or that “Child of the Moon” was the flipside of the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”; and team enforcer Kevin Quigley, who claims all his fights are retaliations, “but sometimes I retaliate first.”Most sports novels bring the game to the reader. Saved brings the reader to the game.Praise for Jack Falla 
“Falla’s graphic portrayal of a violent sport (and its colorful players) and his insider’s view of how hockey is played, coached, and officiated is exciting, surefire entertainment.” 
-- Publishers Weekly on Saved
“Literary hot chocolate that will warm your heart.”
---Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times, on Home Ice
“The best hockey book ever.”
---John Buccigross, ESPN sportscaster, on Home Ice
“Possibly the best hockey book since Ken Dryden’s The Game.” ---Toronto Globe and Mail, on Home Ice

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Literature & Fiction

Falla, Jack

United States

Thomas Dunne Books

Describes the rules and equipment of ice hockey, demonstrates skating, stickhandling, passing, shooting, goal tending, and defensive skills, and suggests conditioning exercises

Sports Illustrated Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books)

Sports Illustrated

OPEN ICEIn this new collection of exquisitely crafted essays, veteran sports writer Jack Falla writes about hockey as he has seen and experienced it over the past fifty years. Reflections on the game, its personalities and arenas, and twenty-five years of commitment to creating his backyard rink are woven into family memories and other fond remembrances.
A heartwarming and amusing collection, Open Ice is sure to touch every hockey fan and all those who have grown up loving the game.
Praise for Jack Falla's Previous Collection of Essays, Home Ice
"literary hot chocolate that will warm your heart." —The New York Times
"While Home Ice may be a book about hockey and the charm of backyard rinks, it is more than that, too. It is a book about relationships—between fathers and sons, husbands and wives—and how the game can bridge the gaps that commonly occur between generations in a family... It's a treasure and one that readers will be happy they searched out. Possibly the best hockey book since Ken Dryden's The Game." —The Globe &amp; Mail
"A gentle and powerful book." —Dave Bidini, Author of Tropic of Hockey and The Best Game You Can Name

Open Ice: Reflections and Confessions of a Hockey Lifer

Biographies & Memoirs

wiley

OPEN ICE In this new collection of exquisitely crafted essays, veteran sports writer Jack Falla writes about hockey as he has seen and experienced it over the past fifty years. Reflections on the game, its personalities and arenas, and twenty-five years of commitment to creating his backyard rink are woven into family memories and other fond remembrances. A heartwarming and amusing collection, Open Ice is sure to touch every hockey fan and all those who have grown up loving the game. Praise for Jack Falla's Previous Collection of Essays, Home Ice "literary hot chocolate that will warm your heart." -The New York Times "While Home Ice may be a book about hockey and the charm of backyard rinks, it is more than that, too. It is a book about relationships-between fathers and sons, husbands and wives-and how the game can bridge the gaps that commonly occur between generations in a family... It's a treasure and one that readers will be happy they searched out. Possibly the best hockey book since Ken Dryden's The Game." -The Globe & Mail "A gentle and powerful book." -Dave Bidini, Author of Tropic of Hockey and The Best Game You Can Name

Open Ice

John Wiley&Sons

There is no shortage of books that describe how participating in a particular sporting activity strengthens bonds between people. Falla's book accomplishes this feat through a collection of essays on backyard skating rinks and frozen ponds and how these local skating venues allow their participants to get in touch with the game of hockey in addition to building relationships with family and friends. The author, a sportswriter and author of Sports Illustrated Hockey, is the architect and CEO of his full-scale backyard rink, the Bacon Street Omni, around which neighborhood life seems to revolve during the long, cold months. Each essay is short and provides for excellent recreational reading for people interested in skating in general and hockey in particular. Throughout, the author's love for winter sports is clear, especially as a link between his New England childhood and his current life, but readers who have never put on a pair of skates may have trouble connecting with this well written book. --Library Journal

Home Ice: Reflections on Backyard Rinks and Frozen Ponds

Sports & Outdoors

Hockey

MCCLELLAND STEWART

'Til the echoes ring again: A pictorial history of Boston College sports

Stephen Greene Press

Ncaa: The Voice of College Sports : A Diamond Anniversary History 1906-1981

Natl Collegiate Athletic Assn

There is no shortage of books that describe how participating in a particular sporting activity strengthens bonds between people. Falla's book accomplishes this feat through a collection of essays on backyard skating rinks and frozen ponds and how these local skating venues allow their participants to get in touch with the game of hockey in addition to building relationships with family and friends. The author, a sportswriter and author of Sports Illustrated Hockey, is the architect and CEO of his full-scale backyard rink, the Bacon Street Omni, around which neighborhood life seems to revolve during the long, cold months. Each essay is short and provides for excellent recreational reading for people interested in skating in general and hockey in particular. Throughout, the author's love for winter sports is clear, especially as a link between his New England childhood and his current life, but readers who have never put on a pair of skates may have trouble connecting with this well written book. --Library Journal

Winter Sports

McGregor Hill Pub

The crowning event of the National Hockey League season is the Stanley Cup final. After months of regular season play, and weeks of intense playoff competition, two battered and exhausted teams clash for the Stanley Cup. The Quest for the Cup is a 304-page celebration of hockey`s ultimate series that traces the Stanley Cup finals through five great eras of hockey: - The birth of the game from 1892 to 1926 - The 30s and 40s when Georges Vezina, Lionel Conacher and Howie Morenz were icons of the game - 1946 -1967, the era of epic Leafs versus Canadiens battles - 1968 -1983, when the Bruins and Flyers won with brawn before the Canadiens took over with grace - The modern era, where the Oilers, Penguins, Red Wings and Devils have won multiple cups With more than 350 full-colour and black and white photographs, Quest for the Cup traces the Stanley Cup finals from their beginnings as a showcase of North American hockey talent, to their current status as the pinnacle event of international hockey. (2001)

Quest for the Cup 1917-2000

Johnson,George

HORNBY, Lance

Milton, Steve

Batten, Jack

Key Porter Books

Hockey in the nineties is a new game of speed, creativity and innovation. Nw, boost your hockey talent with this up-to-the minute guide for the player, coach and fan.

Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books)

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Sports Illustrated Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books)

Open Ice: Reflections and Confessions of a Hockey Lifer

Open Ice

Home Ice: Reflections on Backyard Rinks and Frozen Ponds

'Til the echoes ring again: A pictorial history of Boston College sports

Ncaa: The Voice of College Sports : A Diamond Anniversary History 1906-1981

Home Ice: Reflections on Backyard Rinks and Frozen Ponds

Quest for the Cup 1917-2000

Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books)