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Ice Chips #3
The Ice Chips and the Invisible Puck: Ice Chips Series Book 3
The third title in the beloved and bestselling Ice Chips series by acclaimed authors Roy MacGregor and Kerry MacGregor and illustrator Kim Smith, featuring a vibrant and diverse cast of characters and inspiring hockey greats
Would you play on a team with your worst enemy?
Lucas Finnigan and his friends on the Riverton Ice Chips know a thing or two about time travel—at least, they’ve been learning. The magical flooding of their beloved hometown rink has already whisked Lucas, Edge and Swift into the past to meet Gordie Howe and Sidney Crosby when those hockey greats were just kids. That’s how they learned about the roots of the game, and about how far practice can take them . . . but this time?
When goalie Swift is invited onto an all-girls hockey team but refuses to join forces with Chips’ rival Beatrice Blitz, Lucas decides that their only option—even as Swift’s sister, Sadie, guesses their secret—is to leap through time once again.
Pretty soon Lucas, Swift and Sadie find themselves smack in the middle of the Calgary Olympics. A determined young hockey player known as Chicken is in desperate need of new teammates to compete in an Olympic-style match. But do the Chips have what it takes to help Chicken’s team get back in the game and win? And will winning be enough to change Swift’s mind about the new team back home? With a clever lesson from their new friend—who’ll go on to become one of Canada’s best-loved Olympic hockey players—anything is possible.
Would you play on a team with your worst enemy?
Lucas Finnigan and his friends on the Riverton Ice Chips know a thing or two about time travel—at least, they’ve been learning. The magical flooding of their beloved hometown rink has already whisked Lucas, Edge and Swift into the past to meet Gordie Howe and Sidney Crosby when those hockey greats were just kids. That’s how they learned about the roots of the game, and about how far practice can take them . . . but this time?
When goalie Swift is invited onto an all-girls hockey team but refuses to join forces with Chips’ rival Beatrice Blitz, Lucas decides that their only option—even as Swift’s sister, Sadie, guesses their secret—is to leap through time once again.
Pretty soon Lucas, Swift and Sadie find themselves smack in the middle of the Calgary Olympics. A determined young hockey player known as Chicken is in desperate need of new teammates to compete in an Olympic-style match. But do the Chips have what it takes to help Chicken’s team get back in the game and win? And will winning be enough to change Swift’s mind about the new team back home? With a clever lesson from their new friend—who’ll go on to become one of Canada’s best-loved Olympic hockey players—anything is possible.
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176 pages, Paperback
Published September 15, 2020
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Roy MacGregor
125 books90 followersRoy MacGregor is a Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction.
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July 27, 2025
Read this for my Library AQ class, thought it was super sweet.
April 14, 2019
“Playing like a girl was a good thing” (95).
This book is a gem for young hockey players, intended for the ages of 6-8, but could be read to any age close to that by a guardian. The text is reasonably sized and there’s pictures. Even adult hockey fans would like this. In my opinion, you don’t have to have read the first two Ice Chips book to read this one, but there are a few spoilers relating to the first two books in this one!
This book is a gem for young hockey players, intended for the ages of 6-8, but could be read to any age close to that by a guardian. The text is reasonably sized and there’s pictures. Even adult hockey fans would like this. In my opinion, you don’t have to have read the first two Ice Chips book to read this one, but there are a few spoilers relating to the first two books in this one!
March 17, 2022
Fantastic Canadian middle grade hockey series! This book focused on female hockey and I appreciated this a lot! Much like the first two books, young players on the Ice Chips hockey team travel through time and interact with a young to be Canadian hockey superstar! Such a fun, cute series with diversity and inclusion within the characters, including a youth player with a prosthetic leg. Such a fun series for young hockey fans!
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May 14, 2019
3.5 stars
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December 28, 2020
This entertaining story about some young hockey playing friends is the third book in the series. I haven't read the earlier books.
In the first book the friends, both girls and boys who play on a mixed team, discover their hockey rink has a wormhole, a portal to the past. Using this "time machine" they visit a different hockey great in each story.
This book focuses on the team goalie, Swift. She is a girl with a prosthetic leg who chose to play regular hockey, not sledge hockey. She is a superb goalie and is asked to play on a fledgling all girl team that is being formed. But she doesn't want to do so because then she would have to play with her rival and arch-enemy Blitz.
In this book, Swift and her friends travel back to the 1988 Calgary Olympics where they see Eddie the Eagle perform on the ski jump and meet a ten year old girl who loves hockey who goes by the nickname of "Chicken" and who helps them improve their game. Chicken, of course, turns out to be a notable Canadian hockey legend who they do not recognize at the time.
The time machine hockey rink is a bit of a mystery to me. I may have to read the first book in the series to see how it works.
This is an entertaining yarn.
In the first book the friends, both girls and boys who play on a mixed team, discover their hockey rink has a wormhole, a portal to the past. Using this "time machine" they visit a different hockey great in each story.
This book focuses on the team goalie, Swift. She is a girl with a prosthetic leg who chose to play regular hockey, not sledge hockey. She is a superb goalie and is asked to play on a fledgling all girl team that is being formed. But she doesn't want to do so because then she would have to play with her rival and arch-enemy Blitz.
In this book, Swift and her friends travel back to the 1988 Calgary Olympics where they see Eddie the Eagle perform on the ski jump and meet a ten year old girl who loves hockey who goes by the nickname of "Chicken" and who helps them improve their game. Chicken, of course, turns out to be a notable Canadian hockey legend who they do not recognize at the time.
The time machine hockey rink is a bit of a mystery to me. I may have to read the first book in the series to see how it works.
This is an entertaining yarn.
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