Here are writers such as Rick Carpiniello on Mark Messier and his finest game ever, the crucial turning point of the Devils-Rangers series on the Rangers" road to the Stanley Cup; Dave Bidini on longsuffering hockey fanatics in deepest Romania, waiting desperately for their chance on the international stage; Ken Dryden, from his classic The Game, on the spirit of the dominating Montreal Canadians of the seventies; ESPN magazine"s Gare Joyce on Patrick Sullivan, the 2004 draftee whose biggest challenge isn"t making the NHL, but handling his father; John Stackhouse on triumph and tragedy on a Native American rink in northern Canada. No anthology would be complete without work from the likes of: George Plimpton on his stint in goal with the Bruins, Guy Lawson on the tough lives of junior players, Dave "The Hammer" Schultz on the Broad Street Bullies, Brian Fawcett on poetry in the locker room, Don Cherry on "The Siberia of Hockey", Hugh Hood on Jean Beliveau, Jeff Greenfield on...