Stories from behind the scenes of one of hockeyâs longest running and most popular broadcasts, Hockey Night in Canadaâs Satellite Hot Stove, from an insider whoâs seen it all.
For more than twenty years, hockey fans tuned in during intermission on Saturday nights to watch one of the most popular segments in the gameâs long broadcasting history. Theyâd hear news from around the league, the latest rumours and gossip, andâof courseâsome of the most controversial opinions of the day.
No, weâre not talking about Coachâs Corner.
The Satellite Hot Stove was a revolutionary show for talking about the game we love. Here, during the second intermission of the first game of every Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, pundits, and insiders would convene in studios across North Americaâin arenas and other localesâto discuss the biggest topics. Hot Stove was the best place to get news, opinions, and a good laugh.
And Al Strachan was in the middle of it all. A bestselling author and award-winning sports journalist, he has been writing and talking about hockey for more than forty years. As a regular TV pundit on Hot Stove, he witnessed the most exciting and talked-about episodes in the modern game. And more than once, his unfiltered, say-it-as-it-is style added controversy of its own, too. In this new book, he relives the best stories of his long career, from working with some of the biggest personalities, on and off the ice, to the hijinks that went on behind the cameras.
From embarrassing himself in front of Scotty Bowman, to cooking up a plan with Wayne Gretzky to save hockey, and frank conversations with Ken Dryden and hockeyâs elite, Hockeyâs Hot Stove delivers all new hockey stories you wonât hear anywhere else.