For nearly 40 years, Roy MacGregor has brought our national sport alive on the pages of Canada’s newspapers and magazines, and now the best of this writing is available in a volume that’s a must-read for any hockey fan. He covers a list of hockey legends–players like Borje Salming, Jean Beliveau, Bobby Clarke–and legends in the making–Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin, the Sedin twins. While many of their stories play out on the ice, some of the most compelling take place away from it–Ted Nolan’s struggle for acceptance, Swift Current’s remarkable rise, the many tribulations of Bob Gainey and Guy Lafleur.

Who could offer a better perspective on the game than a writer who, playing as a youngster, had to face an onrushing phenom from Parry Sound named Bobby Orr? When it comes to hockey, Roy MacGregor has seen (and in some cases, done) it all; in Wayne Gretzky’s Ghost, with newly added updates and reflections on each article, he shares these and many other highlights from his storied career.