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An intimate look, with rare photos and exciting anecdotes, at the Vancouver Canucks' first four colorful decades
Few hockey teams have fans as loyal as the Vancouver Canucks, an expansion team that made it's debut in 1970. With unprecedented access to the team's photo archives and commentary from players and coaches, this one-of-a-kind commemorative album, authorized by the Canucks and licensed by the NHL, gives fans an intimate look at Vancouver's favorite sons.
Written by two veteran sports writers with contributions from hockey insiders, this book documents much of the team's rich history, including magic moments from the past, star players and coaches, and the club's biggest goals.
- Includes more than 250 full-color photos, some never before seen
- Reveals the history of the franchise with a look at luminaries such as Roberto Luongo and Trevor Linden and great goal scorers from Stan Smyl to Markus Naslund
Offering a candid and behind-the-scenes look at one of hockey's most popular franchises, Canucks at 40 is a treasured keepsake that devoted fans will love.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Canucks AT forty.,
This review is from: Canucks at 40: Our Game, Our Stories, Our Passion (Hardcover)
I purchased this for a Birthday Gift. This IS very popular book in B.C. This is priced right also. It is beautiful Book if you are a Canuck Fan.GO CANUCKS GO. Thanks once again Amazon. M.C. IN Trail B.C.
5 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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extremely mediocre like the NHL Canucks' history,
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This review is from: Canucks at 40: Our Game, Our Stories, Our Passion (Hardcover)
I was expecting soooooooo much more from this but then what can you expect when Greg Douglas (or as we called him growing up Douglas Gregory) is part of the writing team. He really is not in the same league as Roy MacGregor, Damien Cox, Stephen Brunt, George Johnson et al as far as hockey writing goes. Not that this is supposed to be an investigative expose of the Canucks, but I did want the text at least to tell me much much more than I knew already about the Canucks' history.It's a coffee table book, of course, with plenty of glorious color pics but far too much emphasis is placed on spinning the Canucks in a positive light. To be honest, the stuff on the owners (they for some weird reason conveniently left out the original Medicor and the Orca Bay ownership groups) can all go as, frankly, who wants to read that unless it's a proper critical take on how effective as owners they were. How about even a page or two detailed analysis of why the team has been so mediocre and continues to be (sorry, but until Bingo Bango Luongo and the now past 30 y/o Sedins actually get the Nux to rd. 3 or better in the playoffs, mediocre they are through 2010...OK, 2011 update: Do I give the moody inconsistent in the clutch Sieve-ongo and the disappearing twins a pass after the 2011 Final or not)? A breakdown of the few good and mostly awful high Canuck draft picks (hello, Harold Druken!) and trades year-by-year would have been fantastic. I get it's put out by the Canucks (this pointed out to me in an e-mail from one of the coauthors, FYI) so it's not going to be highly critical of a team that has made all of two deep playoff runs in those 40 years. The theme of the book is supposedly to take the 40 "greatest" moments in Canuck history and write about them. It's actually not as the chapters are mainly about individual players and some do reflect on significant moments while most of the articles seem focused on the player's career with the Canucks (leaving out any significant blunders like the article on Harold Snepsts has nary a mention of his "pass" to Mike Bossy in Game 1 of the '82 Final...love Haaaarold but come on, that infamous play is one that is "memorable" in Nux history). Now to most Canuck fans this is a laughable premise. I get the tie-in to the 40th anniversary but are there ten, let alone 40, memorable moments in the NHL Canucks' history? To be honest I did not find the stories in this all that "passionate." It basically read like the stuff you'd find in old hockey programs pre-Internet (or the extremely average tired old stories churned out by local Vancouver Sun and Province newspaper writers--Tony Gallagher excepted) when we had no access to other cities' newspapers so did not know any better. The Canucks, as bland as they have been (bar maybe the '82 Cup run, the LaForge follies and the Bure years. Sorry, Markus Naslund, good scorer but there's a reason Sweden dumped you from the national team), do have some great stories. Sadly, this book just does not go far enough to make me recommend picking it up unless you just like looking at the pics. If you truly want to read a great book on the Canucks try "Pavel Bure: The Riddle of the Russian Rocket" or, if you want a coffee table book, just pick up "Canucks Legends" as flaws and all in that one too, at least it's better than this piece of Canuck propaganda. Oh, yeah, I'll add I guess you have to die early or get hired by the NHL as Wayne Maki and Colin Campbell get a chapter each but no Andre Boudrias, Tony Tanti or Thomas Gradin [Thomas Gradin! How can you leave out the most courageous player of any Canuck when the team went into Philly to play the Broad Street Bullies?).
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Vancouver Canucks,
By J. Mitchell "Mr. Sports History" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Canucks at 40: Our Game, Our Stories, Our Passion (Hardcover)
I have not finished reading this book yet. The player profiles that I have read up to this point are good. My primary disappointment is with the fact that there is no review, statistically or otherwise, of each season the Canucks have been in the league. I honestly feel that this is an important feature of any anniversary book about a team from the four major professional sports leagues. I am a big collector of anniversary type books about a team as well as books covering a team during special seasons.Canucks at 40: Our Game, Our Stories, Our Passion
1.0 out of 5 stars
in praise of mostly mediocre seasons,
By Brian Maitland - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Canucks at 40: Our Game, Our Stories, Our Passion (Hardcover)
I was expecting soooooooo much more from this but then what can you expect when Greg Douglas (or as we called him growing up Douglas Gregory) is part of the writing team. He really is not in the same league as Roy MacGregor, Damien Cox, Stephen Brunt, George Johnson et al as far as hockey writing goes. Not that this is supposed to be an investigative expose of the Canucks, but I did want the text at least to tell me much much more than I knew already about the Canucks' history.It's a coffee table book, of course, with plenty of glorious color pics but far too much emphasis is placed on spinning the Canucks in a positive light. To be honest, the stuff on the owners (they for some weird reason conveniently left out the original Medicor and the Orca Bay ownership groups) can all go as, frankly, who wants to read that unless it's a proper critical take on how effective as owners they were. How about even a page or two detailed analysis of why the team has been so mediocre and continues to be (sorry, but until Bingo Bango Luongo and the now past 30 y/o Sedins actually get the Nux to rd. 3 or better in the playoffs, mediocre they are through 2010...OK, 2011 update: Do I give the moody inconsistent in the clutch Sieve-ongo and the disappearing twins a pass after the 2011 Final or not)? A breakdown of the few good and mostly awful high Canuck draft picks (hello, Harold Druken!) and trades year-by-year would have been fantastic. I get it's put out by the Canucks (this pointed out to me in an e-mail from one of the coauthors, FYI) so it's not going to be highly critical of a team that has made all of two deep playoff runs in those 40 years. The theme of the book is supposedly to take the 40 "greatest" moments in Canuck history and write about them. It's actually not as the chapters are mainly about individual players and some do reflect on significant moments while most of the articles seem focused on the player's career with the Canucks (leaving out any significant blunders like the article on Harold Snepsts has nary a mention of his "pass" to Mike Bossy in Game 1 of the '82 Final...love Haaaarold but come on, that infamous play is one that is "memorable" in Nux history). Now to most Canuck fans this is a laughable premise. I get the tie-in to the 40th anniversary but are there ten, let alone 40, memorable moments in the NHL Canucks' history? To be honest I did not find the stories in this all that "passionate." It basically read like the stuff you'd find in old hockey programs pre-Internet (or the extremely average tired old stories churned out by local Vancouver Sun and Province newspaper writers--Tony Gallagher excepted) when we had no access to other cities' newspapers so did not know any better. The Canucks, as bland as they have been (bar maybe the '82 Cup run, the LaForge follies and the Bure years. Sorry, Markus Naslund, good scorer but there's a reason Sweden dumped you from the national team), do have some great stories. Sadly, this book just does not go far enough to make me recommend picking it up unless you just like looking at the pics. If you truly want to read a great book on the Canucks try "Pavel Bure: The Riddle of the Russian Rocket" or, if you want a coffee table book, just pick up "Canucks Legends" as flaws and all in that one too, at least it's better than this piece of Canuck propaganda. Oh, yeah, I'll add I guess you have to die early or get hired by the NHL as Wayne Maki and Colin Campbell get a chapter each but no Andre Boudrias, Tony Tanti or Thomas Gradin [Thomas Gradin! How can you leave out the most courageous player of any Canuck when the team went into Philly to play the Broad Street Bullies?). |
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