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From Adey to Zamick - By: Phillip Stamp, 23 Nov 2008
The biographies are listed alphabetically which means that they run from Paul Adey to Chick Zamick, both of whom, coincidentally, made their names with Nottingham Panthers.

Between these two heroes of hockey are an enormous variety of personalities (98in all) who have graced the British game over the last 70 years & more. They range from pioneers like Peter Patton & Blaine Sexton to more recent icons, Ian & Stephen Cooper, Alex Dampier & Scott Neil. The members of the selection panel have a broad-minded approach, especiallyin recent years when Ice Hockey Journalists UK (formerly the British Ice Hockey Writers Association) took over the near impossible task from the original decision-makers, Bob Giddens, & his fellow journalists on the Ice Hockey World newspaper. So you can read about Allan & Annette Petrie, the husband & wife team who founded & run the GB Supporters Club (the only fan club for a national teamin ice hockey), & Ken Swinburne, the `Mr Fix-it' of the immortal Durham Wasps.

Mr Harris, the only non-North American to win the prestigious Brian McFarlane Award for outstanding research & writingin respect of his previous book, The Homes of British Ice Hockey (Tempus, 2006), has done the game a tremendous service here by not only expanding biographies previously published, since 1986-87,in editions of The Ice Hockey Annual but also by adding profiles of all the earlier members, many of whom will be quite unknown to today's fans. All this, of course, makes the book essential reading for all true devotees of our sport.

Reviewedin association with Stewart Roberts, editor of The Ice Hockey Annual.