Bruce Valley’s new book "Seahawk: Confessions of an Old Hockey Goalie" is a personal memoir of a youngster’s late 1950s participation on a championship New England town hockey team composed of WWII veterans, and traces that boy’s life and connection to hockey across almost sixty years. It is a... more

Bruce Valley’s new book "Seahawk: Confessions of an Old Hockey Goalie" is a personal memoir of a youngster’s late 1950s participation on a championship New England town hockey team composed of WWII veterans, and traces that boy’s life and connection to hockey across almost sixty years. It is a groundbreaking study of aging while playing contact sports and reflects upon the famed WWII generation, pond hockey, black ice, and the hockey towns and teams of New England. Few books are written about hockey; fewer expound fully on its special qualities as a sport. Seahawk is such a book. Dave Bidini, author of “Tropic of Hockey” and “The Best Game You Can Name,” high fives “Seahawk,” comparing Valley’s efforts to that of two legends of the hockey book world. “A fine literary descendant of Jack Falla’s Home Ice and Peter Gzowski’s The Game of our Lives. Like any good hockey book, it teaches us more about the world than hockey itself.”