Everyday Hockey Heroes, Volume III: More Uplifting Stories Celebrating Our Great Game

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From hockey insider Jim Lang comes a new volume in the nationally bestselling series of uplifting hockey stories about the everyday heroes who are breaking down barriers and shaping the future of a game they love.

In this heartfelt collection of personal hockey stories, sports broadcaster and author Jim Lang brings together the remarkable voices of hockey players, coaches, families, and fans who have overcome adversity and are championing the game they loveon and off the ice.

Read about former Humboldt Broncos defenceman Logan Boulet, whose selfless organ donation helped six Canadians and motivated almost 150,000 people to register as donors in the following weeks. Meet players like Kelly Serbu, who didnt let his visual impairment stop him from playing hockey and is now raising awareness and funds for blind hockey programs, or Kim McCullough, who founded Total Female Hockey to empower other aspiring female players. Follow players and coaches of colour such as Jim Paek and Jason Payne who are helping to break down barriers, and the hockey parents who are working to make the game more accessible. These are the everyday heroes who are defying the odds and inspiring change.

Featuring extraordinary stories of tireless advocates and unbelievable successes, Everyday Hockey Heroes, Volume III is a celebration of the great game of hockey and the heroessung and unsungfound on rinks and in arenas across the country.

Reviews

If the Stanley Cup could talk, it would have so many stories to tell, and Jim Lang has collected many of them in this book.
RAY BOURQUE, award-winning former professional hockey player and Olympian
Praise for Everyday Hockey Heroes, Volume II
Why do we like competitive sports The drama, the stories, the heroicsthe storiesbehindthe game. McKenzie and Lang feature people who talk about their love of the game and how theyre championing the next generationpaying particular attention to those working to make it inclusive.
Toronto Star
A second volume of stories about the unsung stars around your neighbourhood rink.
Ottawa Sun
Praise for Everyday Hockey Heroes, Volume I
Hockey never ceases to amaze me with the quality of the people in the game. This book is full of hockey champions who will inspire you and show you the true depth of the people in and around this game.
BRIAN BURKE, former NHL executive
You can never truly know a country until you know the game that defines the people. The U.S. has football, Brazil soccer, India cricket. If you want to know Canada, or if youre Canadian and want to know yourself, Everyday Hockey Heroes is for you. In these moving, inspirational, and entertaining stories, Bob McKenzie, the Mr. Hockey of insight and analysis, and sportscaster extraordinaire Jim Lang have found the pulse of Canadaand the beat is as strong and healthy as ever.
ROY MacGREGOR, bestselling author of Wayne Gretzky'sGhost and The Home Team
The Humboldt tragedy showed us just how much hockey is part of the Canadian community. Because, just as we share the joy hockey so often brings, that terrible moment in Saskatchewan taught us that together as a nation we comfort each other when the game, as it occasionally does, brings us pain. My friends Bob McKenzie and Jim Lang have a lifetime of stories from covering the great game, and these pages are wonderful evidence of what theyve collected over the years. Youll laugh at times, youll be inspired at times, and you may even cry as well, but through it all, youll know that Canada is hockey and hockey is Canada. It really is our game.
PETER MANSBRIDGE, bestselling author ofExtraordinary CanadiansandOff the Record
Inspiring. Truly hard to put down. Bobs great storytelling abilities prove that hockey is so much more than just a game. Loved it!
DAVID CHILTON, bestselling author of The Wealthy Barber
Compelling accounts of personal strength and the power of hope. Everyday Hockey Heroes gives a spotlight to important issues that people are dealing with and exhibits their ability to not only overcome these obstacles but, more importantly, to try to make positive change in the wake of them.
SHELDON KENNEDY, former NHL player and founder of the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre

Author Bio

Jim Lang is a sportscaster, journalist, and the coauthor of hockey memoirs by Tie Domi, Max Domi, Wendel Clark, and Bryan Berard, as well as Everyday Hockey Heroes Volumes I, II, and III with Bob McKenzie and My Day with the Cup. He hosts The Jim Lang Show. He lives outside Toronto with his wife and kids. Follow him on Twitter @JimLangSports.