Next Goal Wins!
The Ultimate NHL Historian's One-of-a-Kind Collection of Hockey Trivia
Fun, always surprising and a hockey lover's treasure chest of the little-known facts that shaped the game, you cannot Google the stuff that Liam Maguire shares in this entertaining little book. About 30% updated, revised and renewed from Liam’s 2001 trivia collection, What's the Score?, First Goal Wins! includes a foreword by Wayne Gretzky. Liam has scoured the depths of the NHL archives and stats to put together many of these questions and answers, which you can't get from just looking up your favourite player on Wikipedia. What sets his take on hockey trivia apart from the many pretenders out there is the magical connections he builds between the numbers, the players and the game's history. Besides the straight goods,…
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November 20, 2012Liam Maguire became Canada’s unofficial hockey trivia expert in 1981. Since then he has made many appearances across the country at speaking engagements and on television and radio. He hosts an online show called Puckchat.com and works for the Ottawa Senators on pre and post game radio broadcasts. While Liam plays hockey in a local men’s league, his real hobby is answering everything and anything about hockey. He proposed to his wife at Montreal Forum’s centre ice on September 10, 1993. They were married the following year on the same day. No other couple ever got engaged on Forum ice during the entire 71 years, 3 months and 17 days of the building’s existence. Maguire lives in Osgoode, Ontario.
