The Chase
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Opposites attract · Forced proximity · Brother's best friend · Grumpy / sunshine Trope · 545 books
Grumpy sunshine hockey romance
Grumpy sunshine hockey romance pairs a player who barely talks with someone who never stops. Usually he is the scowling captain or goalie, and she is the one person who finds that funny instead of scary.
Top grumpy sunshine hockey romance books
545 ranked · showing 48 
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
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Grumpy / sunshine · Figure skater · Found family · Secret relationship Shots on Net
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Friends to lovers · Forced proximity · Grumpy / sunshine · Opposites attract 
Nothing But Trouble
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Grumpy / sunshine · Forced proximity · Opposites attract · Forbidden 
Permanently Pucked
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Why choose · Found family · Grumpy / sunshine · Surprise pregnancy Between the Pipes
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Grumpy / sunshine · Forced proximity · Opposites attract · Enemies to lovers 
Watch Your Mouth
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Brother's best friend · Forced proximity · Forbidden · Grumpy / sunshine 
Shutout
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Forced proximity · Brother's best friend · Secret relationship · Grumpy / sunshine Strictly for Now
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Enemies to lovers · Grumpy / sunshine · Forbidden · Opposites attract 
Season's Change
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Grumpy / sunshine · Forced proximity · Opposites attract · Friends to lovers 
Holdout
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Forced proximity · Brother's best friend · Grumpy / sunshine · Secret relationship Why grumpy / sunshine works on the ice
The appeal is the reveal. The grump is protective, loyal and soft for exactly one person, and the book spends its length proving it in small ways: the coffee order he memorized, the fight he starts on her behalf.
Goalies are over-represented here for a reason. The position comes with routines, superstitions and a reputation for being a little odd, which makes a guarded hero easy to believe.
Plenty of M/M titles flip the formula so that the sunshine character is the athlete. Either way, the payoff is the same: the grump smiles, and the whole team notices.
Readers who love these books often reach for opposites attract hockey romance, forced proximity hockey romance and forbidden hockey romance next. You can also browse every hockey romance trope or go back to the full hockey romance directory.
New to the genre? Wikipedia covers the history of the romance novel and how a game of ice hockey works.
Best M/M grumpy sunshine hockey romance books
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
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Grumpy / sunshine · Figure skater · Found family · Secret relationship Shots on Net
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Friends to lovers · Forced proximity · Grumpy / sunshine · Opposites attract Best college grumpy sunshine hockey romance books
The Chase
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Opposites attract · Forced proximity · Brother's best friend · Grumpy / sunshine Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
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Grumpy / sunshine · Figure skater · Found family · Secret relationship Shots on Net
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Friends to lovers · Forced proximity · Grumpy / sunshine · Opposites attract Slow burn grumpy sunshine hockey romance: lower-heat picks
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
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Grumpy / sunshine · Figure skater · Found family · Secret relationship Shots on Net
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Friends to lovers · Forced proximity · Grumpy / sunshine · Opposites attract Nothing But Trouble
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Grumpy / sunshine · Forced proximity · Opposites attract · Forbidden Questions about grumpy / sunshine hockey romance
What is the best grumpy sunshine hockey romance book?
Readers' favorite is The Chase by Elle Kennedy, followed by Behind the Net by Stephanie Archer and Pucking Wild by Emily Rath. Our ranking blends how many Goodreads readers rated each book with how often it appears on readers' own hockey romance lists.
Are there M/M grumpy sunshine hockey romance books?
Yes. 162 of the 545 books here are M/M, led by Zero Pucks by E.M. Lindsey and Power Play by Avon Gale.
How spicy are grumpy sunshine hockey romance books?
57% are rated spicy or scorching on our five-point heat scale. 237 are slow burn or sweeter, such as Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu.
Are grumpy sunshine hockey romance books set in college or the pros?
366 are set in pro hockey and 97 on college teams; the rest follow minor league, junior or retired players.