Stanley Cup: The Complete History

by Eric Zweig, Phil Pritchard (Foreword)

The definitive book on the history of the Stanley Cup and the championship teams that have won it.

Between the 1892–93 Amateur Hockey Association season and the 2017–18 NHL season, the Stanley Cup has been awarded 146 times in 126 seasons to 30 different franchises.

In Stanley Cup, Eric Zweig details every single championship, including rosters, stats, and stories from the seasons and the playoffs.

Over 200 photographs and incredibly unique statistical tables round out the season-by-season championship breakdown. Find answers for such questions as:

How many Stanley Cup finals were decided in Game 7? How many Stanley Cup finals were decided in overtime? Who has scored a Stanley Cup-winning goal and then went on to win a Cup as a coach? How many players have won the Stanley Cup with three or more teams? Who had the longest career without winning the Stanley Cup? What are the most goals by one team in a Stanley Cup final game? and many more.

Chart the course of hockey history and revisit the dynasties and Cinderella stories of each and every decade. From Bobby Baun's overtime winner on a broken leg to stave off elimination in the 1964 Stanley Cup final to Brett Hull's infamous "no goal" in Buffalo to seal the 1999 final, Stanley Cup is full of magic moments and incredible achievements.

An official Hockey Hall of Fame book.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sports, Hockey

528 pages, Paperback

Published November 16, 2018

About the author

By the age of ten Eric Zweig was already a budding sports fanatic who was filling his school news books with game reports instead of current events. Eric’s first book, Hockey Night in the Dominion of Canada (1992), was an historical novel set in the early days of professional hockey. He has been working with Dan Diamond and Associates, consulting publisher to the National Hockey League, since 1996. As a freelance writer, Eric is the author or co-author of many non-fiction sports books for adults and children. He is a member of the Society for International Hockey Research and the Society for American Baseball Research. A former member of the Toronto Blue Jays grounds crew, he still has a champagne bottle from the club’s first American League East Division title celebration in 1985.

Reviews

[Alex Baron · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought that this was a fun little book that packs in more information than you might expect. Listing all Stanley Cup winners until 2018 there is quite a lot of history to cover. I found this book good to take in small chunks. You wouldn’t likely want to spend too long reading at any one time before the years blend together. While not picture heavy there some classic photos from hockey history. I would recommend this book for any hockey fan.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was odd (and took some getting used to) that it was written in reverse order, from the 2018 Stanley Cup win by the Washington Capitals back to the very first Stanley Cup winners the Montreal AAA. I learned a lot, while the pictures & stories really helped bring hockey’s wonderful history with Lord Stanley’s Cup to life.