I'm sure you knew I would answer this one! Okay, here is my list of hockey-team-book recommendations. Not really recs in terms of "I love everything about this", just, like you say, sometimes you want to find a book that captures that team thing.
Author, title missing from my brain, book maybe in a box? -- Lesbian romance fiction about Toronto team in future women's pro league, heroine from Kingston.
Scott Young -- That Old Gang Of Mine - written around 1980, about a men's team going to the Olympics. (Very dated now, of course, because no women or pro players in Olympic hockey.) Sequel to quite good trilogy of kids' books about high school team, originally set in 1950s, re-written to include some 1980s detail but then the inherent sexism etc in the culture doesn't quite work, anyway they are probably in libraries. Scrubs on Skates, Boy on Defence, Boy at the Leafs Camp. (Scott Young was a long-time writer for the Globe and Mail. He also wrote a memoir about his relationship with his son, called Neil and Me. Yeah, that Neil Young. )
Frank Orr - Puck is a Four Letter Word. About a men's pro team in Cleveland. Also written around 1980, and some flaws in the writing but a fun story.
I have two other books about guys in junior hockey and starting pro.
Face-Off Scott Young/George Robinson - has hippies and rock stars and drugs along with a rookie hockey star. Not a very good book. And another one that I can't remember title or author - just the depressing bits of the story-line.
I don't own this one but have read it several times from libraries. It is silly but kind of fun. Amazons: An intimate memoir by the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League by Cleo Birdwell
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Author, title missing from my brain, book maybe in a box? -- Lesbian romance fiction about Toronto team in future women's pro league, heroine from Kingston.
Scott Young -- That Old Gang Of Mine - written around 1980, about a men's team going to the Olympics. (Very dated now, of course, because no women or pro players in Olympic hockey.) Sequel to quite good trilogy of kids' books about high school team, originally set in 1950s, re-written to include some 1980s detail but then the inherent sexism etc in the culture doesn't quite work, anyway they are probably in libraries. Scrubs on Skates, Boy on Defence, Boy at the Leafs Camp. (Scott Young was a long-time writer for the Globe and Mail. He also wrote a memoir about his relationship with his son, called Neil and Me. Yeah, that Neil Young. )
Frank Orr - Puck is a Four Letter Word. About a men's pro team in Cleveland. Also written around 1980, and some flaws in the writing but a fun story.
I have two other books about guys in junior hockey and starting pro.
Face-Off Scott Young/George Robinson - has hippies and rock stars and drugs along with a rookie hockey star. Not a very good book.
And another one that I can't remember title or author - just the depressing bits of the story-line.
I don't own this one but have read it several times from libraries. It is silly but kind of fun. Amazons: An intimate memoir by the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League by Cleo Birdwell