The Maple Leaf Forever

by Brian McFarlane

Genres: Hockey, Sports

280 pages, Paperback

Published November 20, 2024

About the author

Brian McFarlane (born August 10, 1931) spent 27 years thrilling audiences with his colorful commentary from the gondola at Maple Leaf Gardens and the studios of Hockey Night in Canada. A member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Brian McFarlane has written more than 50 books about hockey, and loves nothing more than to share his passion for the game with fellow enthusiasts.

Reviews

[David Hilbert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Does a good job bringing up the major characters and events, as well as interesting anecdotes. I was hoping for a more structured and comprehensive treatment of various themes and characters.

The writing is simple and easy to peruse, however I didn’t like the structure of the book which is essentially just a sequence of 100s of multi paragraph anecdotes with limited degrees of coherence amongst them. It feels like the author wrote a bunch of anecdotes independent of each other and places them in as best an order as he could.

[Matt Randle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good review or TML history