Hockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey statistics book in Canada again in 2008, outselling even the NHL Official Guide and Record Book. Updated for the 2009–2010 season, this pocket-sized marvel returns with new stats and a bigger collection of facts. It covers team histories, the complete 2008–09 NHL season results and the Stanley Cup final standings since 1917.

In honour of Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Games, this year’s hockey Gem has more international coverage than ever before. Featuring a special celebration of the 2009 World Junior Championship team’s fifth-straight gold medal, it also has a complete Olympic preview that covers our rebuilt men’s team, our defending gold medal-winning women’s team and a special section on Paralympic sledge hockey. The ultimate reference for hockey pools and trivia leagues, and an ideal stocking stuffer for fans of every age, Hockey Facts & Stats is set for another winning year.

THIS YEAR’S HOCKEY FACTS & STATS INCLUDES:

• an exclusive A–Z register of all men and women to compete in Vancouver 2010, complete with career event-by-event statistics for every player
• the complete schedules for men, women and sledge teams in Vancouver 2010
• an expanded history of the Olympics, 1920–2006, including rosters of all Canadian teams, men and women
• an A–Z directory of NHL players with comprehensive stats and biographical information
• a complete list of players and personalities enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame
• a summary of the 2008–2009 NHL season, including shootout statistics and scoring leaders

Praise for Andrew Podnieks’ writing:

“The detail is astonishing ... a stunning testament to the history of sports photojournalism in this country.” —The Edmonton Journal

“Illuminating…Serious students of the game know already to follow where Podnieks leads…his attention to and reverence for the game compares with Nabokov and his bond with butterflies.” —The Globe & Mail

“The author of numerous books on hockey and some of the sport’s greatest players, Andrew Podnieks undertook the most ambitious project of his career with Players, an exhaustive encyclopedia of hockey lore that will delight hockey fans both young and old.” —Read Magazine

Photo Credit: Mary Jane Nguyen

Andrew Podnieks is the author of more than 50 books on hockey, most notably 2008’s best-selling book on the 100th anniversary of the Montreal Canadiens, Honoured Canadiens, which has sold over 140,000 copies. He is also the author of Players: The Ultimate A-Z Guide of Everyone Who Has Ever Played in the NHL; The Complete Hockey Dictionary; World of Hockey: Celebrating a Century of the IIHF; A Day in the Life of the Maple Leafs; Canada’s Olympic Hockey Teams, 1920-1998; A Canadian Saturday Night; and, Portraits of the Game: Classic Photographs from the Turofsky Collection at the Hockey Hall of Fame. Andrew Podnieks’ website can be found at www.andrewpodnieks.com