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The untold story of hockey's deep roots from different regions of
the world, and its global, cultural impact. Played on frozen ponds
in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game
to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the
nineteenth century, the sport has drawn from different cultures and
crossed boundaries--between Canada and the United States, across
the Atlantic, and among different regions of Europe. It has been a
political flashpoint within countries and internationally. And it
has given rise to far-reaching cultural changes and firmly held
traditions. The Fastest Game in the World is a global history of a
global sport, drawing upon research conducted around the world in a
variety of languages. From Canadian prairies to Swiss mountain
resorts, Soviet housing blocks to American suburbs, Bruce Berglund
takes readers on an international tour, seamlessly weaving in
hockey's local, national, and international trends. Written in a
lively style with wide-ranging breadth and attention to telling
detail, The Fastest Game in the World will thrill both the lifelong
fan and anyone who is curious about how games intertwine with
politics, economics, and culture.
The Montreal Canadiens are one of the most successful teams in the
NHL, with 24 Stanley Cup victories and stars like Guy LaFleur,
Patrick Roy, and Carey Price, who have all left their mark on
hockey history. Author Pat Hickey, as a longtime beat writer for
the Montreal Gazette, has witnessed more than his fair share of
that history up close and personal. Through singular anecdotes only
Hickey can tell as well as conversations with current and past
players, this book provides fans with a one-of-a-kind, insider's
look into the great moments, the lowlights, and everything in
between. Habs fans will not want to miss this book.
Forever Faithful celebrates the history of Cornell hockey, focusing
on twenty-four memorable games played by the men's and women's
teams since the opening of Lynah Rink in 1957. The foreword was
written by Ken Dryden (Cornell '69), who led the Big Red team to
its first NCAA championship in 1967, won six Stanley Cups with the
Montreal Canadiens, and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. The
narrative begins with an early history of the program, when games
were played outdoors on Beebe Lake, and moves on to chapters
celebrating the rituals and traditions of the Lynah Faithful and
the key rivalries of both the men's and women's teams. Game
accounts follow, each one featuring insights from coaches and
players who were involved and illustrated by many color and
black-and-white photographs of the players and game action. The
book concludes with an appendix that lists key statistics and
accomplishments of the men's and women's programs.
The NHL's New York Islanders were struggling. After winning four
straight Stanley Cups in the early 1980s, the Islanders had
suffered an embarrassing sweep by their geographic rivals, the New
York Rangers, in the first round of the 1994 playoffs. Hoping for a
new start, the Islanders swapped out their distinctive logo, which
featured the letters NY and a map of Long Island, for a cartoon
fisherman wearing a rain slicker and gripping a hockey stick. The
new logo immediately drew comparisons to the mascot for Gorton's
frozen seafood, and opposing fans taunted the team with chants of
"We want fish sticks!" During a rebranding process that lasted
three torturous seasons, the Islanders unveiled a new mascot, new
uniforms, new players, a new coach, and a new owner, which were
supposed to signal a return to championship glory. Instead, the
team and its fans endured a twenty-eight-month span more
humiliating than what most franchises witness over twenty-eight
years. Fans beat up the new mascot in the stands. The new coach
shoved and spit at players. The Islanders were sold to a supposed
billionaire who promised to buy elite players; he turned out to be
a con artist and was sent to prison. We Want Fish Sticks examines
this era through period sources and interviews with the people who
lived it.
Reviews of earlier editions: Action shots and formatted with the
brightness and gloss of a magazine, this book will be interesting
reading for hockey fans. -- Booklist This is a fantastic book for
teachers and students alike. It is written in an informative and
easy-to-read style and is a definite must-have for any library or
classroom. -- Resource Links The greatest players in the NHL...
NOW! The Hockey Now! franchise has been thrilling hockey fans for
over two decades, and this new eleventh edition will take them
rinkside and delight them like no other hockey book. Updated in
time for the 2022-23 season, Hockey Now! provides fast-paced and
strikingly illustrated profiles of over 65 of the best and
brightest of the NHL. Here are just a few of the players featured
in Hockey Now! Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers) Sidney Crosby
(Pittsburgh Penguins) Auston Matthews (Toronto Maple Leafs) Alex
Ovechkin (Washington Capitals) Nikita Kucherov (Tampa Bay
Lightning) Nathan McKinnon (Colorado Avalanche) Drew Doughty (Los
Angeles Kings) Marc-Andre Fleury (Chicago Blackhawks) Victor Hedman
(Tampa Bay Lightning). Author Mike Ryan has selected first and
second All-Star teams as well as the Black Aces and Milestone
Makers for each division (Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and
Pacific), paying special attention to the league's youth movement.
Hockey Now! is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the
stars of today's fast-paced NHL and the ideal choice for all fans.
The Chicago Blackhawks, one of the NHL’s “Original Six,” have
been building their storied legacy for decades. Since their
founding in 1926, the Hawks have won six Stanley Cup championships
and produced dozens of standout stars, from Hall of Fame goaltender
Mike Karakas in the ’30s to Bobby “The Golden Jet” Hull in
the ’60s to current team captain Jonathan Toews. And the Chicago
Tribune, the team’s hometown newspaper, has been covering it all
from the very beginning. Published to coincide with the start of
the 2017–18 season, The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago
Blackhawks is a decade-by-decade look at the city’s 21st-century
sports dynasty. Curated by the Chicago Tribune sports department,
this book documents every era in the team’s history, from the
1920s to the present day, through the newspaper’s original
reporting, in-depth analysis, comprehensive timelines, and archival
photos. Each chapter includes profiles on key coaches and players,
highlighting the top players from each decade as well as every
Stanley Cup championship. Bonus “overtime” material—stats and
facts on championships, Hall of Famers, memorable trades, and
more—provides a blow-by-blow look at all 90 years of the
franchise’s history.
Amanda Lamarches debut collection of poetry is a work of
imaginative grace and power. These poems topple the normal
hierarchy of everyday concerns, promoting fears unlikely in the
normal state of being -- the fear of buttons, of dying to the wrong
song, of houses built on corners -- to the same stage and emotional
impact as the more common (perhaps more cliched) fears of car
crashes and collapsing bridges. The clever combination of
explorations emotional and playful carries on. Technical advice for
cutting down trees is juxtaposed with the development of ominous
personal overtones. The title sequence takes issue with the easy
laying down of language by recasting well-worn sayings: giving them
back-stories, situating them in real time and real places, and
reinvigorating them by providing each its own individual universe
from which to draw meaning. Amanda Lamarches refreshing poems
refuse at all the right moments to take themselves too seriously.
They have the amazing ability to make readers shift from out-loud
laughter to profound insight in a gasp of breath.
When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after
more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best
place to find world-class players who could help turn things around
more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All
they had to do then was make history by drafting them, then figure
out how to get them out. That's when the Wings turned to Keith
Gave, the newsman whose clandestine mission to Helsinki, Finland,
was the first phase of a of a years-long series of secret meetings
from posh hotel rooms to remote forests around Europe to
orchestrate their unlawful departures from the Soviet Union. One
defection created an international incident and made global
headlines. Another player faked cancer, thanks to the Wings'
extravagant bribes to Russian doctors, including a big American
car. Another player who wasn't quite ready to leave yet felt like
he was being kidnapped by an unscrupulous agent. Two others were
outcast when they stood up publicly against the Soviet regime,
winning their freedom to play in the NHL only after years of
struggle. They are the Russian Five: Sergei Fedorov, Viacheslav
Fetisov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Vyacheslav Kozlov and Igor
Larionov. Their individual stories read like pulse-pounding spy
novels. The story that unfolded after they were brought together in
Detroit by the masterful coach Scotty Bowman is unforgettable. This
story includes details never before revealed, and by the man who
was there every step of the way -- from the day Detroit drafted its
first two Soviets in 1989 until they raised the Stanley Cup in
1997, then took it to Moscow for a victory lap around Red Square
and the Kremlin. The Russian Five did more to bridge Russian and
American relations than decades of diplomacy and detente between
the White House and the Kremlin. This is their story.
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