Slapshots: The Best and Worst of 100 Years of Hockey

Glynn A. Leyshon is a professor of physical education at the University
of Western Ontario, a former weekly columnist for the London Free Press,
and author of 18 Sporting Stories.

This small book devotes a single page to a brief anecdote or statistics
concerning the National Hockey League or its players. These include such
amusing things as the best and worst skaters, best loophole (suspensions
for violence), worst crime, best all-time players, worst travel agent,
best noise, worst movie critic, best smile, worst breath, and so on. You
get the idea. There are no numbers on the pages since the sequence is
immaterial. There is no table of contents and no index. There are a
handful of photos, including one of Gretzky the season he scored 378
goals (as a pee wee).

This is a book to thumb through on a plane, to provide a story or two
for a speaker at an athletic banquet, or to read aloud to a group at
intermission during a Stanley Cup playoff.