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Hat Trick

A Life in the Hockey Rink, Oil Patch and Community

Harley Hotchkiss 

978-1-554884278

$36.00

In 2005, during the National Hockey League’s year-long lockout of North American teams, Calgary Flames’ co-founder Harley Hotchkiss — chair of the league — met alone with Trevor Linden, president of the NHL Players’ Association. The wisdom and honesty of the team owner, many decades older, helped influence the popular young centre to convince fellow players to settle the dispute.

Harley has had that remarkable effect on people throughout his astonishing career in sports, business, and the community — a hat trick fulfilling his three goals in life. His absorbing memoir is an insider’s guide to the development of North American hockey; the growth of the Canadian oil and gas industry witnessed by one of its most influential and individualistic entrepreneurs; and the behind-the-scenes story of enlightened philanthropy. Along the way, the Ontario tobacco-farmer’s son tells of doing deals with the legendary Boone Pickens, going on safari with Swedish royalty, and becoming a partner with the mysterious Baron Carlo von Maffei.

Staying in the Game

The Remarkable Story of Doc Seaman

Sydney Sharpe

978-1-550028812

$36.00

Peter C. Newman called him “the Totem of the Titans.” From a small Prairie town, Daryl K. “Doc” Seaman became an icon of Canadian business and hockey. He is one of the last of a breed of postwar entrepreneurs and sportsmen who forged modern Canada, striking deals on a handshake and always keeping their word.

After flying eighty-two combat missions during the Second World War, Doc Seaman worked in the oil industry with his brothers, turning a small Alberta drilling business into a global giant, Bow Valley Industries. Later, he led a group that brought the Atlanta Flames to Calgary. Still a Flames co-owner, he helped reshape Hockey Canada and restore Canada’s glory in international hockey.

Doc Seaman’s life is a remarkable saga of courage, resolve, generosity, and success. It ultimately leaves us not only with a deep appreciation of one iconic Canadian but also with a wider understanding of our country.

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