KINGS OF THE ICE: A HISTORY OF WORLD HOCKEY / AUTHORS

Ales Brezina is a publisher of the newspaper Satellite. He has written about hockey since the 1970s, and has spent years as a hockey reporter for the Czech section of Voice of America.

Andrew Podnieks is a hockey historian and photographer. He is the author of Canada's Olympic Hockey Teams: The Complete History 1920-1998, Portraits of the Game, The White Book and several other books about hockey.

Denis Gibbons specializes in international and Olympic hockey history. He did statistical work for CBS on network television coverage from Nagano Olympic Games and has also worked for The Hockey News. He is a member of the Society for International Hockey Research.

Dmitri Ryzkov, a leading Russian hockey observer, started writing about hockey in 1963, and went on to become editor of Sovetskiy Sport. He later wrote the screenplay for several movies about hockey, and spent a decade as a commentator for NTV.

Igor Rabiner has been a hockey writer since 1990, and special correspondent to the NHL for the Russian Sport Express since 1996.

Jan Bengtsson has been with Sweden's largest daily, Svenska Dagbladet, since 1982. In 1989, he became hockey writer for the paper.

Jan Stark is a former editor of the Swedish hockey annual èrets Ishockey. He has  covered the game since 1973 and is one of the founding members of the Swedish Professional Ice Hockey Writers Association, as well as the Swedish Ice Hockey    Historical and Statistical Society.

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Nikolai Vukolov has represented ITAR TASS in Sweden since 1980, first as a reporter and later as editor-in-chief.

Pavel Barta is a noted hockey journalist in the Czech Republic. For the last decade he has covered hockey for Gol magazine, the largest sports weekly in the Czech Republic.

Sergei Chuev has spent 17 years covering hockey, for Hockey Week, Hockey, and  Sovetskiy Sport.

Tom Ratschunas is the leading hockey statistician in Europe. He edited the IIHF International Hockey Guide during the 1970s and the 1980s. He provides statistical services to many European hockey leagues and IIHF competitions.

Vladimir Dimitrov has been a hockey writer and special correspondent to the NHL for Sport Express since 1994.

Yevgeny Bogatyrev has been a sports writer since 1977, and has written screenplays  about famous hockey players for television and movies.

Yuri Lukashin, a leading Russian statistician, was a member of the organizing committee for the Moscow Olympics of 1980, wrote for several newspapers, and put together a number of screenplays, some of which were about the NHL. He worked with other writers on Hockey in the Winter Olympics, and was a member of a team that assembled Hockey: Encyclopedia of the Game.

Yuri Tzybanev was a hockey writer for the weekly newspaper Soccer/Hockey from 1976 until 1991, and subsequently for a variety of publications including Nedelja, Sport Club, and Sovetskiy Sport.

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KINGS OF THE ICE: A HISTORY OF WORLD HOCKEY / EDITORS

Sheila Wawanash has been an editor for 25 years. Her most recent projects include rewriting and copy editing as part of the team for the first Total Hockey, and copy editing of Andrew Podnieks' book The NHL All-Star Game: Fifty Years of the Great  Tradition. She is also co-editor of the national newsletter for the Editors' Association of   Canada.

Graham Mills has been in publishing since 1979 as an editor and freelance writer. His most recent projects include writing and editing support materials for the Educational Safety Association of Ontario and editing quality assurance for IOF, a large multinational insurance firm.

Lloyd Davis has 14 years of editorial experience. Some of the projects he has worked on include: Total Hockey (1st edition); The Bruins, The Red Wings, and The Blackhawks (Brian McFarlane's Original Six series); Full Spectrum: The Complete History of the Philadelphia Flyers Hockey Club and others.

Penny Hozy is a freelance writer, editor and indexer. She recently edited Under Sydenham Skies (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) and Women of the Third Reich (NDE Publishing). She is currently editing a series of books on famous Canadians for students.

Wendy Thomas is a freelance copyeditor and proofreader. One of her current projects is the editing or materials for FaceOff magazine, the Official NHL magazine.

Alan Little has been fact checking for about 6 years now. A few of his recent projects include: The Rink by Scott Russell and Chris Cuthbert, Ice and Men by Bruce Dowbiggin, as well as fact checking for FaceOff magazine.

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