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Review of Ken Dryden, The Game * This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Ken Dryden’s seminal account of life as a professional hockey player during the 1978-1979 NHL season and sheds light on the sport’s important place in Canadian society, culture, and identity – all very prescient topics for discussion given Canada’s approaching sesquicentennial in 2017. In articulate, reflective, and at times refreshingly honest prose, Dryden chronicles the Canadiens’ ultimately triumphant quest for a fourth-straight Stanley Cup in his final season, which cemented the squad as the last professional sports ‘dynasty’ from Canada. Though it has many, Dryden’s book is not just a compilation of anecdotes but fundamentally a tale of structure and connectivity, with hockey serving as the chain and link within his own life as a player, a teammate, a fan, a son, a husband, and a father. In this regard, the simple yet poignant title fits perfectly. For Dryden, although hockey is just a game, he considers the rink a place of refuge for its sentimental value, his enduring ‘love for the game,’ yet also, paradoxically, the relief of retirement. Though not without flaws, The Game is still a tour de force thirty years on largely because it remains very accessible and relevant. Committed hockey fans will be fascinated by Dryden’s description of the Canadiens-Maple Leafs rivalry and the dynamics of his team’s camaraderie and various personalities. Casual observers, meanwhile, will find his views on hockey violence and the commercialization of sport relevant as such issues still in many respects define the NHL today. In terms of organization, Dryden’s book is more thematic than chronological. Though each chapter is consecutively entitled after a ‘day,’ the book is not based on a single week during the 1978-1979 campaign but rather an entire season through the framework of his ‘typical’ week. In the first three chapters, entitled ‘Monday,’ ‘Tuesday,’ and ‘Wednesday,’ respectively, Dryden discusses the influence of hockey on players’ private and professional lives. In ‘Monday,’ he explains the book’s format by emphasizing hockey’s hegemonic role: there were only three ‘seasons’ in a given year (offseason, regular season, and postseason) and only two ‘days’ in a given week (practice days and game days). For Dryden, this structure reflected another salient point regarding hockey and life as a professional athlete in Canada during this time. Escalating lingual and cultural tensions between much of English- and French-Canada found little traction in the Canadiens’ dressing room, as such concerns were deemed petty and unimportant to their function as a team. Canada is no longer primarily defined by the French-English divide, but it is worth considering whether Dryden’s experience of the Canadiens dressing room could be extended to encompass other racial and cultural divides in Canadian society or if, on the other hand, the English-French tension was easier to overcome than, for instance, the ongoing prejudice faced by NHL players who identify as Indigenous. In the next two chapters, Dryden highlights the false dichotomy of professional and private life as both interacted and blended with one another. In ‘Wednesday,’ a ‘practice day,’ hockey briefly recedes into the background as he discusses the difficulties of adapting to a bilingual city and remaining close to family before regretfully leaving to participate in a team practice. In ‘Thursday,’ a ‘game day,’ a showdown with the hated Maple Leafs in Toronto also meant for Dryden a visit with his parents, sparking the recollection of childhood memories of quintessentially ‘Canadian’ backyard rinks and innocent dreams of stardom. After a convincing victory for the Canadiens, his postgame conversation with his father is short and brief, echoing the fleeting nature of his nostalgic reminiscences of the past, and perhaps gesture towards this superficial aspect of the Canadiana mythology. The rest of the book, by contrast, focuses more on the team itself and less on Dryden’s personal life. In ‘Thursday’ and ‘Friday,’ the success of the Canadiens is a result of not merely superlative skill and ability but also, crucially as Dryden affirms, playful and cordial relations amongst teammates. In particular, a come-from-behind victory over the powerhouse Bruins in Boston—a rematch of the previous two Stanley Cup finals— was fondly recalled, especially for the ‘forbidden’ consumption of alcoholic beverages on the team bus after the game in celebration. As well, he provides unique perspectives of fellow teammates and future team legends such as Guy Lafleur, Steve Shutt, Bob Gainey, and Yvan Cournoyer. In ‘Saturday’ and ‘Sunday,’ Dryden broadens the audience for his book from the diehard fan to the casual sports observer. He discusses the business of hockey, the changing conceptions of players from simple heroes to celebrities, and violence in the sport, placing blame on the league and players accordingly. Lastly, in what can be considered two relatively brief but concluding chapters entitled, quite deliberately, ‘Monday’ and ‘Tuesday,’ Dryden returns to discussing the familiar tropes of passion, competitiveness, closure, and regret; though on this occasion, he emphasizes the manifestation of such themes on road trips against difficult teams such as the Islanders in New York and the Flyers in Philadelphia. He does not enjoy such trips as he once did, in large part because the game, he suggests, has changed for the worse. Ken Dryden’s “The Game” remains a central, if somewhat critical, piece of the mythology of Canadian hockey. Readers can learn a lot from this book, and such knowledge is not confined to basic hockey facts. For Dryden, participation in hockey was originally fuelled by a ‘love of the game’ and soon developed into a profitable passion. Increasingly, however, it felt like a profitable ‘burden,’ and since it had come to influence everything for Dryden, it followed that it soon meant nothing . Dryden’s sober, honest, yet still optimistic perspective of his experience as a professional hockey player adds a dimension of realism typically unfound in other popular histories of the sport. Casual and committed observers alike will find that Dryden’s book is quite substantive. He does not glorify team accomplishments or his own personal celebrity; in fact, on many occasions, he relates anecdotes of dressing room discussions following a Canadiens victory that show his teammates were too bothered by the imperfections of their performance to enjoy the game’s outcome. He also laments the commercialization of the industry, particularly how hockey became defined by profit rather than on-ice success, a point that is truer today than ever. Oddly, Dryden attributes as much blame to the players as the owners, claiming that they were equally responsible for escalating salaries, which in turn caused higher ticket prices and perturbed fans. Dryden’s assessment here probably needs to be taken with a grain of salt; NHL players were, for most of the century, paid very little for dangerous and short-lived – if often ‘fun’ – careers. Indeed, this ties into his sharp assessment of violence in hockey: he condemns the NHL’s laissez-faire approach which allowed for more infractions and belligerence during games, pointing out that the lack of decisive action maintains if not increases on-ice violence. Players and teams had little incentive to make games less hostile since the NHL, due to consistent profits, downplayed health concerns. In the thirty years since The Game was first published, the NHL has largely promoted hockey as a rugged, tough, and physical sporting spectacle. To attract potential stakeholders and investors in wealthy American markets, the fast-paced nature of the game and individual and team skill is not fundamental to the NHL’s marketed hockey ‘brand.’ Dryden suggests that the commercialization of the league has fostered increased on-ice violence which, in turn, has made the sport increasingly and deliberately unsafe. In light of current health-related concerns pertaining to head injuries in hockey, Dryden’s assessment still has considerable merit. Elite NHL players and especially team owners have become infinitely richer over the last three decades but such growth has not followed in terms of limiting on-ice violence and promoting a cleaner yet still highly competitive league. Arguably, the violence has been encouraged in order to keep profits up, with little regard for the players whose careers are ended or shortened as a result, nor especially for the tens of thousands of junior and minor league players who are encouraged to batter one another brutally, year after year, while competing for the limited number of NHL spots. For committed hockey fans and observers, Dryden’s book does not disappoint. There are several memorable anecdotes that demonstrate the sometimes playful dynamic of the team. Dryden tells of one instance when Steve Shutt, a forward, urinated into a cup and added Coke to change the liquid’s colour after a practice. When fellow forward Mario Tremblay decided to steal a sip from Shutt’s ‘Coke,’ players howled with laughter for obvious reasons. On a more serious note, Dryden’s brutal honesty towards teammates is another undeniable strength of his book. He notes that future Hall-of-Fame defenseman Larry Robinson was ‘past his prime’ by the 1978-1979 season and accuses Guy Lapointe of having a ‘phobia’ for blocking shots. Given the legendary status of these players for Montreal fans then and now, such frankness is decidedly unconventional. Regarding his relationship with backup goalie ‘Bunny’ Larocque, Dryden bluntly states that on the odd occasion that the Canadiens were losing badly in a game and ‘Bunny’ was in net, he wanted him ‘to play well, but not too well.’ This kind of honesty contrasts the standard ‘team-first’ attitude to which most fans believe players adhere. For all potential readers, Dryden successfully places hockey in the fabric of hegemonic Canadian identity. First off, he argues that the 1972 Summit Series reflected Canadians’ fatalism regarding hockey: they were prepared to embellish victory celebrations precisely because Team Canada had been so close to defeat. In this sense, for Dryden, hockey reflects a certain innocence – he might have said ignorance – about what Canada actually is, yet a willingness amongst Canadians to defend the notion of an abstract Canada. As well, his recollections of the long days and nights spent on backyard rinks and frozen ponds and rivers is still a familiar trope for Canadian hockey players, regardless of its veracity. Hockey, according to scholar Michael Robidoux, originally became prominent in Victorian-era Canada largely because it was the sport (relative to lacrosse) that was popular for its accessibility; it transcended class divides and socio-economic status. However, in recent years, it is not a secret that hockey has become a sport for the wealthiest Canadians, especially as high costs severely limit its affordability. The parents of Patrick Kane – the reigning Conn Smythe trophy award winner of the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks – estimated that they spent $250 000 on his minor league hockey. Kane was born in Buffalo, NY, but such expenses are not uncommon for aspiring young players and their families on both sides of the border. If Dryden’s memories of playing in his formative and adolescent years conform to a dominant view of hockey’s place in Canada, new realities suggest that competitive, organized hockey is a sport less for the many and more for the few. Dryden’s book is not without other flaws. Its organization leaves the reader confused at times regarding specific dates and times, especially since some of the games referenced do not actually occur during the 1978-1979 season. He can be rather longwinded and pontificating, which leaves hockey fans desiring for more insider accounts of his experience goaltending for one of the greatest teams ever. At times, he focuses too heavily on his perspectives as an Ivy-League-educated citizen. Despite these shortcomings, The Game is one of the more informative and readable popular sports histories available to consumers. It contains a plethora of fascinating insights and accounts of hockey life from a bygone era. Yet, many of Dryden’s reflections still resonate today, particularly regarding the business of hockey and the league’s regulation (or lack thereof) of in-game violence. As a result, The Game will remain an important book fusing hockey history with Canadian identity and culture approaching 2017 and likely long after. Indeed, as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper intends to release his own book about hockey – whenever that may be – one gets a sense of the self-conscious effort on behalf of the Canadian elite to link itself to the popular nationalism associated with the game. For progressive Canadians, the question is not whether hockey is woven into the fabric of the Canadian nation but, rather, how to use that relationship to create a better Canada. Adrian Zita-Bennett is currently a graduate student at McMaster University and his work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals. He is a devoted Habs fan, patiently awaiting the club’s 25th Coupe Stanley. * Ken Dryden. The Game . Toronto: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1983. Carey Price has tied Ken Dryden in Montreal Canadiens lore. There's no question that Carey Price has earned his place amongst the best in franchise history. The Montreal Canadiens pulled off an improbably comeback in the Stanley Cup Playoffs last night, rebounding from a 3-1 series deficit against their historic rival Toronto Maple Leafs and ultimately prevailing in seven games. The exclamation point came in the form of a 3-1 Game 7 victory on Toronto's home ice in front of a few-hundred fully-vaccinated health care workers, and the Canadiens got a timely performance from their most important player on the biggest stage of the year. Goaltender Carey Price was superb against the Maple Leafs, shutting down their offensive attack led by the likes of Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner and posting a sparkling 1.83 goals-against average and .945 save percentage in the critical final three games. Overall for the playoffs through seven games, Price sports a .932 save percentage and 2.24 goals-against average. Of course, being the humble athlete that he is, Price instead shifted the focus to his teammates. "This is the best team game that we've played this season," Price said after Game 7. Thanks to his efforts, Price is now tied in team history with the legendary Ken Dryden with three Game 7 victories. Forward Brendan Gallagher , who scored the first goal of the game Monday night, couldn't come up with enough good things to say about his goaltender and said that once his team led, that was all Price needed to work with. "I can't tell you what it's like playing in front of him," he said. "As soon as I saw the puck go in and we gave him one goal, it was almost like we knew it was going to be enough. It's just so easy playing in front of him because you know he's there to bail you out. Obviously, we had to keep playing, but it's a different level of confidence when you have Pricey back there, especially in these elimination games. He's the best I've ever seen. It's pretty nice to play in front of him." Head coach Dominique Ducharme echoed Gallagher's sentiments, describing his goaltender's performance as "excellent". "Carey was very solid. He was excellent," he said. "As a group, we showed a lot of resilience and character when we were down 3-1 in the series. We scored big goals at the right time. I think this was our best game. We deserved to win this game." The Game by Ken Dryden, First Edition. Game : A Thoughtful and Provocative Look at a Life in Hockey. Dryden, Ken. Published by Macmillan Company of Canada, 1983. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Home Game : Hockey Life in Canada. Dryden, Ken. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1990. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Condition: Good. First Edition. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. The Game. Dryden, Ken. Published by C D G Books Canada Inc, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, 1999. Used - Softcover Condition: Near Fine. Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Softcover. pp.248, b/w photos. clean tight copy minuscule corner wear and top front near top outer corner a small nick Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada. DRYDEN, Ken and MACGREGOR, Roy. Published by McClelland & Stewart,, Toronto:, 1989. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. With over 95 color photographs. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The Game. Dryden, Ken. Published by Times Books, 1983. Used - Hardcover Condition: good. Condition: good. 1st. 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD. The Game. Dryden, Ken. Published by Totem, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1989. Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No writing, stickers, stamps. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear. Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador, and the Future of Hockey. Ken Dryden. Published by SIGNAL BOOKS LTD, 2017. New - Hardcover Condition: New. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. " Shortlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction A Globe and Mail Best Book From the bestselling author and Hall of Famer Ken Dryden, this is the story of NHLer Steve Montador--who was diagnosed with CTE after his death in 2015--the remarkable evolution of hockey itself, and a passionate prescriptive to counter its greatest risk in the future: head injuries. Ken Dryden's The Game is acknowledged as the best book about hockey, and one of the best books about sports ever written. Then came Home Game (with Roy MacGregor), also a major TV-series, in which he explored hockey's significance and what it means to Canada and Canadians. Now, in his most powerful and important book yet, Game Change, Ken Dryden tells the riveting story of one player's life, examines the intersection between science and sport, and expertly documents the progression of the game of hockey--where it began, how it got to where it is, where it can go from here and, just as exciting to play and watch, how it can get there.". More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada. Dryden, Ken and MacGregor, Roy. Published by Toronto, Ontario McClelland & Stewart Inc. 1989, 1989. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover Condition: very good. Condition: very good. First Edition. 283pp. Octavo in original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket has some scuffing, one closed 1 inch tear on back top edge; not price clipped; now protected in acid-free book cover. Inscription and signature by Ken Dryden on the title page. Numerous coloured and B/W photos throughout text. Previous owner's gift inscription on front endpaper. Near fine condition. Inscription on title page is "For Glenn, Ken Dryden, 1989". Inspired by Ken Dryden's major CBC-TV series on hockey, this is a book that takes us all the way from street hockey to the showdowns between Canada and the Soviets. The Game ( 20th Anniversary Edition) Dryden, Ken. Published by Wiley, U.S.A., 2003. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A clean unmarked copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket now protected in a mylar cover. Home Game; Hockey and Life in Canada. Dryden, Ken (With Roy MacGregor.) Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover. [0-7710-2871-7] 1989, 1st printing. (4to) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 283pp. Signed with an inscription by the author. Color photographs. "In 1983 the Game was called by the Globe and Mail's Trent Frayne 'The sports book of the year, or maybe the decade, or maybe the century.' in the years since then Ken Dryden came to realize that there was more that he wanted to say aobut hockey and he undertook to produce a TV series for CBC. That six-part series has now inspired this book, written jointly by Ken Dryden and the well-known novelist and biographer Roy MacGregor". Locale: Canada; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Sports, Hockey). The Game: A Reflective and Thought Provoking Look at a Life in Hockey. Dryden, Ken. Published by Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1983. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth over light grey paper boards, with grey spine lettering. Cloth at the spine ends a little rubbed, the dust jacket a little scuffed, and age-toned, with heavier toning to the edges and spine. In all, a clean and tight copy. Signed by Ken Dryden on the front endpaper. Uncommon with only the signature as most copies were inscribed to people. The Game. Ken Dryden. Published by Macmillan of Canada, 1983. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED COPY, in flawless condition. The author has written in his own hand on the free front end paper "To Robert", who was a constituent of the Author while he was a Member of the Parliament of Canada. The Author has also quoted the first sentence of his book, with his signature, and written "Toronto". The book and dust jacket (protected in a mylar cover) are in near mint condition. Probably the best book about hockey ever written. Exceptionally rare to find this book in this condition with the above mentioned attributes. Size: 6.5" x 10.0" 1st Printing Language: eng 1st Printing. Signed by Author(s). The First Game. Febuary 20, 1999. Toronto Maple Leafs Vs. Montreal Canadiens. . Sundin, Mats, Joseph, Curtis; Quinn, PAT; DRYDEN, KEN, Karble, Tomas. Published by Toronto, 1999. First Edition Signed. Used - Softcover Condition: Fine. Soft Cover.Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A fine copy of the official program produced for the first game played at the AIR CANADA CENTER. . SIGNED by coach PAT QUINN. Captain MATS SUNDIN; and team players: FREDRIK MODIN, CURTIS JOSEPH, TOMAS KARBELE, GLENN HEALY, TIE DOMI, DIMITRI YUSHKEVICH, GARY VALK, DARBY HENDRICKSON, MIKE JOHNSON, TODD WARINER, BRYAN BERARD, ALEXANDER KARPOVTSEV, STEVE THOMAS, KRIS KING, IGOR KOROLEV, DEREK KING, ALYN McCAULEY, SYLVAIN COTE, . Also included is a team photo .ALSO included is a menu from the 1999" HAVE A HEART DINNER" Signed by " KEN DRYDEN, PAT QUINN, CURTIS JOSEPH; MIKE JOHNSON; STEVE THOMAS; ALYN Mc CAULEY; JASON SMITH; FREDRIK MODIN; YANIK TREMBLAY; STEVE SULLIVAN; MIKE JOHNSON; KRIS KING; ALEXANDER KARPOTSEV; and many others. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Signed by Author. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Book Review - The Game by Ken Dryden. When I first sat down to write a review of The Game, by Ken Dryden, I was excited. Here is a book that has meant so much to me, a book that is so beautifully written, that puts you there in his final season with the Canadiens, that explains so much about the state of his mind, the state of the game of hockey, a book that is so human that we find ourselves in its pages. Now, trying to write about this book, I realize that it is as impossible to describe as it is to tell a someone who hasn't felt it what love, passion, fear or melancholy is like. You end up waving your hands around a lot, trying to think up comparisons when there really are none. Thirty years ago, the book, The Game by Ken Dryden was released. Published first in 1983, it followed on the end of his career by a few years, his name still close enough to the tip of the tongue that it rolled easily into conversation. Within the first chapters he writes of his impending retirement, 'I have lived with this moment for many years, planned for it as others, thirty years older, plan for their retirements.' Thirty years on his book still stands as one of the best books ever written about any sport. The 30th anniversary edition should reawaken our interest in his life and career, but more than that, make us see how the game has changed, and as importantly, how we ourselves have changed in the course of three decades. The book looks at Ken Dryden's last season with the Canadiens, the 1978-1979 season, the end not just of his career as a goalie, but the end of a dynasty, the Canadiens a team in transition, changing and struggling to find itself. It is a team that has been so successful, so dominant, that to be anything other than that seemed unimaginable, but the season is a struggle. They win the Stanley Cup, but it isn't with the seeming effortlessness of years past. Accustomed to success, the team had achieved so much that there was no place higher to go, and they stutter step through the season. It would have been a different book had it been written about the season before. Here the team is remarkably human. Mr. Dryden writes about a history of hockey that he found at a friend's home, a book that looked at the changes to the sport from its beginnings up through the 50's. He takes the thread and moves it ahead through the 70's, then further in his epilogue. He writes about how the game has changed, how it is in many ways stuck in the past, yet driving faster and faster into the future. He writes about what we have lost when free time is no longer free, when we took the game out of the hands of kids and put it into the hands of coaches and parents, of people who see Goals instead of goals. This book is skating on a pond past dark, looking for the puck among the over hanging branches, finding it and continuing on with the game. The Game, the game. after all this time, after all the readings and re-readings of this book it hits me that the title is drawn from a conversation he has with an ex-Canadiens player, Dickie Moore, toward the end of the book. 'He spoke of 'the game'", writes Mr. Dryden "Sometimes excitedly, sometimes longingly, but always it was 'the game'. It sounded almost spell-like the way he put it.' This book puts you in a spell, makes you forget for a time where you are, even who you are. No matter how far ahead movie technology advances, the huge screen, films released in 3-D, advances in sound and technology that trick us into believing the unreal is real, this book reminds us of how powerful the written word can be to make us feel. Ken Dryden plants a seed that grows so fully that by the end you will have tasted the fruits of knowledge and of understanding, and you will never look at the game the same way again.