Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game

[2][3] Farrell, a professional player, won the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Shamrocks of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) in 1899 and 1900.

[4][5] The chapter describes general strategy of the game, and features in-depth commentary on the position by the star players of the day.

The book gives a brief history of the sport, describes the benefits of playing it, and gives advice to players in a context independent to strategy and practices pertaining to the team as a whole.

Malone, team doctor for the Trois-Rivières Reds, before it was passed down to his son, Brian Malone, who then gave the book to Red Fisher, a noted hockey columnist, on the condition that the book be available for research by hockey historians.

Fisher loaned the book to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has an interest in the history of ice hockey.