Money Players: How Hockey's Greatest Stars Beat the NHL at Its Own Game

by Bruce Dowbiggin

Incredibly, the legacy of one-time hockey czar Alan Eagleson still poisons professional hockey. The generation of players that “the Eagle” systematically abused, misled, and defrauded continues to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551990563
• ISBN13: 9781551990569
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: MacFarlane Walter & Ross
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 3.5" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

candid account!

I found this book to be pretty much complete history of the relationship between hockey players, team managers, agents and team owners and the NHL. It shows how players salary got from being unadequate to what some people can say ridiculously high. The author definitely knows the subject and knows many people that took part in making NHL history. Although I knew most of the facts, the author puts a human face to it, narrating this through the eyes of people that played a central part in making it all happen, which makes this book a great read. I especially liked the fact that author tries to give an objective account. What's more he gives in the end of the book a few possible resolutions for upcoming lockout, one of which I found very convincing. Great book for anybody who loves the game of hockey and would like to understand the background to what looks like will be lockout for 2004 season.