INTRODUCING GAME DAY!
In 2024, Doug MacLean had a runaway bestseller with Draft Day: How Hockey Teams Pick Winners or Get Left Behind which he wrote with Scott Morrison. Well, Scott was burned out over doing a number of high-profile books in a row, and, through our shared literary agent, I was asked about working on a project with Doug.
Of course I was in!
Doug and I got to know each other and started to shape what would become Game Day: The Uncensored Life of an NHL GM, which comes out from Simon & Schuster in October 2026.
We talked to a lot of people and relied on some of my archives to put together a fascinating look into what an NHL general manager does. Trust me, half the time I was just a fan wondering, How does a GM do this? or What happens if …?
I can’t wait for hockey fans everywhere to get to read Game Day!
For more information, see the Game Day page.
OLIVER EDITORIAL SERVICES
Besides writing books, I have been hired often to help lay out and edit books.
The KayfabeNews.com website has entertained me and so many others for years, so it was a pleasure to help Colin Hunter publish a collection of some of his favourite pieces. Kayfabe News: Unreal News About an Unreal Sport will have you laughing out loud again and again. Order it at Amazon.ca or Amazon.com
HOWDY NEIGHBOR!
For almost 20 years, Kurt Nielsen has been one of my best friends. We met through a post on a message board, where I was looking for a roommate for an upcoming Cauliflower Alley Club reunion in Las Vegas. It could have been a disaster, rooming with a stranger, but instead it led to a couple of decades a laughter. For a sample, see the SlamWrestling column I wrote after the passing of our pal, “Colonel DeBeers” Ed Wiskoski: Mat Matters: Me, Kurt and The Colonel (the person who deleted the images already knows what I think of him and his decision).
Through all that time, Kurt had talked about his obsession with Stan Frazier, who most fans know as Uncle Elmer from his WWF run in 1985-86. That had earned Kurt the “Plowboy” nickname before I met him, and it’s appropriate.
So it was an honour to help Kurt get his long-time project,
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LEARN MORE!
I have been at this writing thing for a long time. Use the menu at the top of this page to learn about all my work in professional wrestling, writing about hockey, even the two kids books that I self-published!
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