13 Hockey Romances to Read During the NHL Playoffs

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Rookie Mistake by Anna Zabo and L.A. Witt

Rookie subordinate Isaac is beauteous hard connected himself. No substance what the result of a game, helium revisits each incorrect move, each incorrect thought. The lone idiosyncratic who helps him to get retired of his caput is his teammate and idol, Julian. Pittsburgh’s prima subordinate has his ain affectional trauma to woody with, but helium can’t assistance but befriend Isaac, bringing him into his tiny ellipse of captains and alternates. Please enactment that determination is simply a storyline involving past intersexual and affectional abuse; work with care. (And past marque definite you person Scoreless Game on platform due to the fact that you are going to privation their communicative immediately.)

Out connected the Ice by Kelly Farmer

While not focused connected nonrecreational hockey, this archetypal successful a bid brings america into the satellite of hockey for women and girls. Caro is simply a erstwhile subordinate who present runs a hockey campy for girls, and Amy is simply a existent subordinate who wants to usage her presumption to advocator and enactment causes she believes in. When she goes to enactment astatine Caro’s camp, she’s determined not to fto a crush get successful her way, particularly since Caro isn’t out. 

The Playing Game by Ainsley Booth

This 1 besides has a lawsuit of “We had a large 1 nighttime basal and didn’t speech names,” but Harper knows precisely who Kieran is. The lone happening she didn’t expect was for him to determination to her metropolis with the newest NHL hockey team. After helium spots her successful the stands, helium seeks her out, and she does her champion to debar him, having a agelong past with hockey and (hockey players) that she’d alternatively not bring backmost to the forefront. But helium dilatory works to bring her around. If you’re looking for a less-angsty, quieter hockey book, this mightiness beryllium a bully 1 to commencement with. 

Off the Ice by Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn

Sunny Disposition by Deanna Grey

Naomi shares a location with 4 hockey players. That would beryllium excessive for anyone else, but she’s chill with it. But of each the guys, she finds herself reasoning the astir astir Finn, the taciturn, grumpy one. She doesn’t cognize what it is astir him, and helium decidedly doesn’t cognize wherefore she makes him consciousness safe. But there’s thing other afoot, and it’s each summed up perfectly successful the concluding condemnation of the blurb: “Sunny Disposition is simply a dilatory burn, hidden individuality romance featuring a grumpy, amnesic hockey subordinate and sunshine cozy crippled streamer.” Like. What. I consciousness similar I’m speaking for everyone erstwhile I accidental I Need That Now Thanks. 

On the Fly by PJ Trebelhorn

Courtney is simply a erstwhile olympian with a imagination to play successful the NHL. Men’s athletics oregon not, she knows she has the chops — and is alternatively playing successful a women’s semi-pro league. Violinist Lana takes a permission of lack from the Chicago Symphony to attraction for her ailing father, the brace conscionable erstwhile Court goes retired for pizza, and Lana is her server. They person an instant connection, but life…gets successful the way. 

Pucking Around by Emily Rath

This has been getting a batch of attraction connected BookTok, with differing results, truthful you mightiness person astatine slightest seen the rubric oregon screen before. Rachel had a magical nighttime with a stranger, ne'er to spot him again…until helium showed up connected the hockey squad she present works for arsenic a carnal therapist. There’s besides an instrumentality manager who complains a batch and a goalie who likes to support secrets. (Note: this is simply a Why Choose/Multiple Partners book.) This publication is precise lengthy for a romance caller and besides has a batch of contented notes, which are connected the author’s website. 

The Tao of Hockey by Melanie Ting

This is 1 of the older books connected this list, but digs into a abstraction that we speech astir little successful the U.S. romance world, and that is insignificant league Canadian hockey. After a car mishap ended his NHL career, Eric hopes to get backmost connected the committee playing with an AHL team. He’s got a batch of hurdles to jump, and a batch of maturation to enactment on, but he’s determined to play, and play well. When helium meets a assured and autarkic pistillate successful a bar, helium discovers what he’s missing successful his ain behavior, but also…what’s missing successful his life. Someone similar her. 

Gravity by Tal Bauer

When Bryce and Hunter conscionable astatine the NHL All Star Weekend, they go accelerated friends. Bryce mightiness beryllium the champion subordinate successful the league portion Hunter is much mediate of the road, but they find a batch to bash and speech astir implicit the people of the weekend. Of course, there’s 1 problem: Bryce likes guys, but Hunter is straight. As acold arsenic helium knows. Yes, this publication intelligibly has the connection “bi awakening” successful the description. Things get messy.

Hard Knocks by Ruby Lang

I emotion Ruby Lang’s books, and this is simply a large illustration of however good she writes characters and conflict. Adam plays for the beauteous atrocious Portland hockey team, which successful itself is really refreshing — everybody has to triumph the Cup, it’s tiring. Helen is the neurologist called into the ER erstwhile Adam gets into an accident. They stock a fiery chemistry, and a blistery night, but extremity up moving into each different successful the worst benignant of way. In her efforts to lessen the chances of CTE, Helen is moving to escaped the metropolis of hockey. And of course, Adam can’t person that. 

Season’s Change by Cait Nary

Veteran Olly and rookie Benji are teammates and roommates. They’re besides opposites successful each different way, which leads to absorbing experiences. But they some privation to amusement their caller squad that they made the close choice, and that requires each of them to absorption connected their game. Not their roommate. But there’s thing there, and they tin some consciousness it. 

Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu

This isn’t a superior R romance novel, truthful overmuch arsenic it is simply a coming-of-age communicative with a precious emotion communicative built in, which is wherefore I’m offering it up arsenic a bonus. It’s a completed webcomic, which is inactive disposable to work online, but I truly admit it successful bound format, with the bonus contented you get astatine the extremity of each volume. Bitty, a freshman subordinate connected his college’s hockey team, loves to bake. Feeding radical is practically his emotion language. And he’s a sweetheart successful astir cases — but erstwhile it comes to his intimidating, quiescent teammate, Jack. Come for the giggles, enactment for the swoons.