Selling the Dream
Selling the Dream by Ken Campbell, published by Penguin Books Canada on January 7, 2014, spans 376 pages and is presented in English. This book explores the evolving landscape of hockey in Canada, highlighting the tension between the love for the sport and the pressures placed on young players and their families. It examines how the dream of playing in the NHL has transformed hockey into a competitive business rather than a source of enjoyment, revealing the financial burdens that accompany this pursuit.
Readers will find a critical analysis of the current state of youth hockey, where the joy of playing is often overshadowed by high costs and unrealistic expectations. The authors, drawing from extensive experience in the sport, shed light on the commercialization of hockey and the impact it has on children and families. Selling the Dream serves as both a guide for hockey parents and a defense of the sport’s core values, addressing the challenges faced by families navigating this complex environment.
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Canadians have always dreamed about hockey. And we all love our kids. But somehow our desire to give everything we ve got to two of the things we love the most has left both worse off.
For many families, hockey has become more business than pleasure, where children don t even play anymore now they compete. The dream of playing in the NHL and the enormous costs that come with it, are killing hockey in Canada. Drawing on decades of combined experience in hockey at all levels, Ken Campbell and Jim Parcels pull back the curtain to show just how far our national game has strayed from its roots. What they reveal is a system driven by unrealistic expectations of a financial windfall, where minor-hockey fees and new sticks for kids are deemed investments and where there is no shortage of entrepreneurs more than happy to take money from starry-eyed parents.
Often shocking, always informative, Selling the Dream is not only a guidebook for involved hockey parents across the country, it is a defence of the game we all love, and of childhood itself.
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