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A Virtual Evening with Ken Dryden

Wednesday Sep 07 2022 7:00 pm, Virtual, Online via Zoom & YouTube
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Spend a virtual evening with Hockey Hall of Fame goalie and bestselling author Ken Dryden as he celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series with a discussion of his new book The Series: What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now (McClelland & Stewart) hosted by Greg Mackling of 680 CJOB. 7pm CDT (Winnipeg) // 6pm CST (Saskatoon)

Registration is required to directly participate in the Zoom webinar. It will be simultaneously streamed on YouTube.

Purchase a copy of The Series from McNally Robinson Booksellers before our September 7 event and receive a PERSONALIZED bookplate from Ken Dryden. Bookplates will ship directly from Penguin Random House Canada and may take 4 to 8 weeks to arrive. More information available at point of purchase.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1972, MONTREAL FORUM, GAME ONE: The best against the best for the first time. Canada, the country that had created the game; the Soviet Union, having taken it up only twenty-six years earlier. On the line: more than the players, more than the fans, more than Canadians and Russians knew.

So began an entirely improbable, near-month-long series of games that became more and more riveting, until, for the eighth, and final, and deciding game—on a weekday, during work and school hours all across the country—the nation stopped. Of Canada’s 22 million people, 16 million watched. Three thousand more were there, in Moscow, behind the Iron Curtain, singing—Da da, Ka-na-da, nyet, nyet, So-vi-yet!

It is a story long told, often told. But never like this.

Ken Dryden was a goalie for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s, during which time the team won six Stanley Cups, and he played for Team Canada in the 1972 Summit Series. He has been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He is a former federal member of parliament and cabinet minister, and is the author of eight books, including The GameHome Game (with Roy MacGregor), Game Change, and Scotty. He and his wife, Lynda, live in Toronto and have two children and four grandchildren.

A proud Winnipegger and life long hockey fan, host Greg Mackling has been memorizing and sharing hockey history with anyone who would listen, since he was six years-old. Greg’s family history includes a great-grandmother who was once upon a time, a season ticket holder for the Montreal Canadiens when the team played at The Forum.

A long time former host of the Sunday Morning Hockey Show and Sports Sunday, Greg is a current member of CJOB’s Winnipeg Blue Bomber coverage team. Greg also co-hosts The Start, with Brett Megarry and Lauren McNabb 6-10 AM weekday mornings on 680 CJOB.

See:

The Series

- Ken Dryden

Hardcover $34.95
Reader Reward Price: $31.46

Purchase a copy of The Series from McNally Robinson Booksellers before our September 7 event and receive a PERSONALIZED bookplate from Ken Dryden. Bookplates will ship directly from Penguin Random House Canada and may take 4 to 8 weeks to arrive. More information available at point of purchase. SEPTEMBER 2, 1972, MONTREAL FORUM, GAME ONE: The best against the best for the first time. Canada, the country that had created the game; the Soviet Union, having taken it up only twenty-six years earlier. On the line: more than the players, more than the fans, more than Canadians and Russians knew. So began an entirely improbable, near-month-long series of games that became more and more riveting, until, for the eighth, and final, and deciding game--on a weekday, during work and school hours all across the country--the nation stopped. Of Canada's 22 million people, 16 million watched. Three thousand more were there, in Moscow, behind the Iron Curtain, singing--Da da, Ka-na-da, nyet, nyet, So-vi-yet! It is a story long told, often told. But never like this. Ken Dryden, a goalie in the series, a lifetime observer, later a writer, tells the story in "you are there" style, as if he is living it for the first time. As if you, the reader, are too. The series, as it turned out, is the most important moment in hockey history, changing the game, on the ice and off, everywhere in the world. As it turned out, it is one of the most significant events in all of Canada's history. Through Ken Dryden's words, we understand why.