MIKE BROPHY is a senior sports writer for CBC sports as well as writer for NHL.com. This former hockey analyst for Rogers Sportsnet, has been writing about hockey for more than 30 years -- first with the Peterborough Examiner for 14 years and then as a senior writer with The Hockey News for the next 17 years -- and has won six Ontario Newswire writing awards for his coverage of junior hockey. He has also been awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award for best new voice for his book Curtis Joseph: The Acrobat. Mike and his wife, Marilyn, live in Pickering, Ontario, and have three children, Chase, Blair, and Darryl.
TODD DENAULT is a freelance author, researcher, and member of the Society for International Hockey Research. His work has been published in a number of print and online publications and he is the author of: Jacques Plante: The Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey, The Greatest Game: The Montreal Canadiens, the Red Army, and the Night That Saved Hockey, and A Season in Time: Super Mario, Killer, St. Patrick, the Great One and the Unforgettable 1992-93 NHL Season. Todd resides in Cobourg, Ontario. The author lives in Brophy: Pickering / Denault: Cobourg.