The Game of Our Lives Author:Peter Gzowski In this best-selling timeless classic, Peter Gzowski recounts the 1980–81 season he spent travelling around the NHL circuit with the upstart Edmonton Oilers. These were the days when the young Oilers, led by the teenaged Wayne Gretzky, were poised on the edge of greatness, and about to blaze their way into the record books and the consciousness ... more »of a nation. Unlike any book ever written in the annals of hockey, The Game of Our Lives beautifully weaves together the anatomy of a modern NHL team with the magnificent history of the game. Here are the great teams and the great players through the ages—Morenz, Richard, Howe, Orr, Hull—the men whose rare and indefinable genius on the ice exemplified the speed, grit, and innovation of the game. This is also a book for anyone who as a kid dreamed of making the NHL and never lost the love and thrill of the game. It captures the sheer delight of hockey, especially when played outdoors, as Gzowski did as a child in Gault, Ontario. While the story of the early Oilers embodies the book, The Game of Our Lives is much more than a retelling of one season in the life of an NHL team. This is a book about hockey like no other.« less