"It feels very good." That's what Ken Dryden said when he heard Oren Safdie had written Beyond Ken Dryden: "Childhood experiences that relate to friends, to family members—to a brother, to a father, to a mother—stay with you. And oftentimes, those have to do with sports: you loved the same team together, or you had a favourite and your brother had a different favorite team, so when someone does something like this, it feels very good." —Ken Dryden, radio interview with sports journalist Mike Cohen.

"A wonderful flashback to the glory days of the Canadiens and their 1970s dynasty team through the eyes of a young boy growing up in Montreal through some tough times and the positive and lasting impact goalie Ken Dryden had on him." —Stu Cowan, sport columnist, Montreal Gazette

"This book is about much more than hockey, and about much more than family. This is a story about the shared human experiences of sadness, frustration, confusion, anger, and how and where we find escape, where we find happiness." —Andrew Jamieson, Forget the Box