
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Stories from behind the scenes of one of hockey's longest running and most popular broadcasts, Hockey Night in Canada's Satellite Hot Stove, from an insider who's seen it all. For more than twenty years, hockey fans tuned in during intermission on Saturday nights to watch one of the most popular segments in the game's long broadcasting history. They'd hear news from around the league, the latest rumours and gossip, andāof courseāsome of the most controversial opinions of the day.No, we're not talking about Coach's Corner. The Satellite Hot Stove was a revolutionary show for talking about the game we love. Here, during the second intermission of the first game of every Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, pundits, and insiders would convene in studios across North Americaāin arenas and other localesāto discuss the biggest topics. Hot Stove was the best place to get news, opinions, and a good laugh.And Al Strachan was in the middle of it all. A bestselling author and award-winning sports journalist, he has been writing and talking about hockey for more than forty years. As a regular TV pundit on Hot Stove, he witnessed the most exciting and talked-about episodes in the modern game. And more than once, his unfiltered, say-it-as-it-is style added controversy of its own, too. In this new book, he relives the best stories of his long career, from working with some of the biggest personalities, on and off the ice, to the hijinks that went on behind the cameras.From embarrassing himself in front of Scotty Bowman, to cooking up a plan with Wayne Gretzky to save hockey, and frank conversations with Ken Dryden and hockey's elite, Hockey's Hot Stove delivers all new hockey stories you won't hear anywhere else.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction: Ground Rules
- Chapter 1: In the Beginning, 1994ā2000
- Chapter 2: The Name Game
- Chapter 3: Live on Tape
- Chapter 4: Now Is the Hour
- Chapter 5: Up in the Air
- Chapter 6: Casting Call
- Chapter 7: A Kathy of All Trades
- Chapter 8: No Mail Today
- Chapter 9: A Close-Run Thing
- Chapter 10: A Sharply Dressed Man
- Chapter 11: One of Ours
- Chapter 12: The Greatest Years
- Chapter 13: Trouble in Paradise
- Chapter 14: Filling the Gap
- Chapter 15: Over-Under
- Chapter 16: Out on a Limb
- Chapter 17: The Show Must Go On
- Chapter 18: Arguing as Sport
- Chapter 19: The āTeam Uselessā Grad
- Chapter 20: Changing Times
- Chapter 21: Letās Make a Deal
- Chapter 22: Against the Wall
- Chapter 23: Au Revoir
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright