About This Blog

This blog is my commonplace book about hockey.

I am a writer: my first collection of short stories, Blue Ice and Other Stories from the Rink, releases this May. As you can guess from the title, they’re hockey stories. I’ve written about hockey because I grew up in Canada, because I still love hockey, and because my first editor told me to.

Which brings us back to this blog. I’ve spent a great deal of time (and *gulp* money) on hockey books in the last few months. Turns out there’s a lot more than I first thought. As a teenager I read a fair bit of Roy MacGregor and Ken Dryden (not to mention any hockey biographies and pictorial collections I could get my hands on). But I’ve discovered that there are a lot of other good hockey books that, for whatever reason, fly under the radar. Writers like Jack Falla, Dave Bidini, and David Adams Richards (to name but three) have penned essays and novels that approach today’s game with a solid foundation of hockey history and tradition. And since that’s what I aim to do myself, I thought I’d see how they did it and scribble some of what I learn here.

Feedback is always welcome: leave a comment or drop me an email (frankewert AT gmail). I promise to write back most of the time, especially if you’re nice.