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The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team
sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the
"Blades", a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of
women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the
book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a
national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and
gender studies are explored, including the construction of
community among women athletes; the "feminine apologetic" and
pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and
the experiences of lesbian athletes; physicality and women's
experience in contact sports; the contribution of sport to
ideologies of gender; the impact of commercialization on women's
sport; and the changing relationship between women's and men's
sports.
The Hockey Hall of Fame is full of the best to ever hit the ice.
But the path to hockey greatness is not all jaw-dropping saves and
game-winning goals. In Hockey Hall of Fame True Stories, hockey
historian and writer Eric Zweig shares exciting tales and trivia
even the most dedicated puck head might not know. This book is
overflowing with behind the scenes yarns of some of history's
greatest scoring sprees and winning seasons, as well as thrilling
accounts of the off-ice curiosities, tragedies and heroics. Just a
few of the curious, bizarre or outrageous tales featured in this
fully illustrated volume are: The 1976 plot to kidnap Guy Lafleur
Extreme scoring outputs, like Darryl Sittler's 10-point performance
and Frank McGee's 14-goal Stanley Cup outing The time Cy Denneny
fell down a well The fastest hat tricks ever recorded by Bill
Moisenko and Jean Beliveau Hockey Hall of Famers' skills in other
sports, like Gordie Howe's workouts with the Detroit Tigers and Art
Ross's prowess on the football field Tales of hockey players during
WWI and WWII The origins of the greatest nicknames And many, many
more! Hockey Hall of Fame True Stories is for the fans who want to
take a deeper look at the lives of the players they idolize. You
know the stars, the scores and the stats. But do you know these
stories?
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It was the greatest hockey series ever played-and it changed the
game forever Cold War evokes as never before those legendary 27
days in September 1972: a time when hockey's two worlds collided,
as the perennial world champions from the Soviet Union finally
tested themselves against the top professional stars of the
National Hockey League. Decided only in the dying seconds of the
final game in Moscow, the series captivated fans and non-fans alike
with its explosive upsets and unrelenting suspense. Cold War weaves
together rich period detail, illuminating anecdote and thrilling
hockey action with eyewitness accounts from Paul Henderson,
Vladislav Tretiak, Ken Dryden, Yvan Cournoyer, Harry Sinden and
many other greats to recreate the series: its heroes and goats, its
characters and prima donnas, its moments of poignancy, bravery,
hilarity and shame. This book is also about a nation's magnificent
obsession. Combining passion and insight with a coolly objective
eye, author Roy MacSkimming shows how Canadians' identification
with their hockey roots transformed eight "friendly matches" into a
bitter, life-or-death struggle between the game's superpowers-and
into a symbolic confrontation between hostile political systems. On
the eve of the series' anniversary, Cold War artfully documents one
of the great mythic dramas in the history of sport.
"Dave has produced what every coach dreams about . . . a smarter
drill book for all situations and ages " -- Roger Nielson, National
Hockey League head coach for 20 years ""The Incredible Hockey Drill
Book" is of great use for all coaches as well as young and older
hockey players." -- Jacques Demers, National Hockey League head
coach for 10 years (coached the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley
Cup championship in 1993) Properly run practices with well-executed
drills are the pillars of effective coaching. In "The Incredible
Hockey Drill Book," former NHL coach Dave Chambers provides more
than 600 illustrated, easy-to-follow drills for both novice and
experienced coaches. These drills, divided into 24 categories, are
designed to teach and improve conditioning, skating, checking,
offensive and defensive play, goaltending, special teams, and much
more. To help implement these drills, Chambers discusses teaching
and learning theories and supplies ideas for drill and practice
organization. Also included are 175 motivational slogans that may
be used in various coaching situations. Coaches will find "The
Incredible Hockey Drill Book" an invaluable resource for coaching
hockey at all levels. Dave Chambers, author of "Complete Hockey
Instruction," has coached a number of championship teams at the
junior, university, and international levels. In the NHL, he has
worked as head coach and assistant coach with the Quebec Nordiques
and the Minnesota North Stars. He teaches at York University in
Toronto.
Kevin Nelson recorded the absurdities and outrages of the nation's
basketball courts and baseball fields in several highly successful
anthologies of quotations, vignettes, and insults. Now in Slap
Shots, Nelson turns his ever vigilant eye and ear to the hockey
arena, in a roundup of opinions as sharp as a skater's blades and
as out of control as a runaway puck
Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide
phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global
History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five
years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of
the sport. Here is the story of on-ice stars and organizational
visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and
advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and
instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern
hockey's "birthing" in Montreal and follow its migration from
Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story
then shifts from the sport's emergence as a nationalist battlefront
to the movement of talent across international borders to the game
of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace 'em up on
the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and
across the breadth of Asia. Sweeping in scope and vivid with
detail, Hockey: A Global History is the saga of how the coolest
game changed the world--and vice versa.
When the NHL announced in early 1976 that its two worst teams, the
Washington Capitals and Kansas City Scouts, would travel to Japan
for a four-game exhibition series dubbed the Coca-Cola Bottlers'
Cup, fans and media were baffled. The Capitals and the Scouts were
both expansion teams, with a combined 46 wins, 236 losses and 38
ties in their first two seasons--stats made more dismal when
considering seven of those wins were against each other. Yet
lagging so hopelessly behind the rest of the NHL, they were perfect
for a one-off event on the other side of the globe. The series was
an eye-opening success. Players skated on an Olympic swimming pool
ringed with rickety boards hung with fishing nets that boomeranged
pucks into their faces, as curious Japanese fans gasped at the
gap-toothed Canadians wrestling on the ice. Filled with rare photos
and player recollections, this book tells the story of how two
league doormats became hockey heroes half-way around the world.
On May 2, 1967, Montreal and Toronto faced each other in a
battle for hockey supremacy. This was only teh fifth time the teams
had ever played each other in the Stanley Cup finals. Toronto led
the series 3-2.
But this wasn't simply a game. From the moment Foster Hewitt
announced "Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States," the
game became a turning point in sports history. That night, the
Leafs would win the Cup. The next season, the National Hockey
League would expand to twelve teams. Players would form an
association to begin collective bargaining. Hockey would become big
business. The NHL of the "Original Six" would be a thing of the
past.
It was "The Last Hockey Game."
Placing us in the announcers' booth, in the seats of excited
fans, and in the skates of the players, Bruce McDougall scores with
a spectacular account of every facet of that final fateful match.
As we meet players such as Gump Worsley, Tim Horton, Terry Sawchuk,
and Eddie Shack, as well as coaches, owners, and fans, "The Last
Hockey Game" becomes more than a story of a game. It also becomes
an elegy, a lament for an age when, for all its many problems, the
game was played for the love of it.
An essential training manual for hockey goalkeepers.
"The Hockey Goalie's Complete Guide" offers practical advice and
information for goalkeepers and their coaches and trainers. Anyone
interested in hockey goalkeeping will enjoy reading about NHL
trainer FranCois Allaire and his four-year development plan that
includes:
Basic techniques Skating techniques On-ice and off-ice training
methods How to evaluate goalkeepers on and off the ice The
trainer's role.
Step-by-step instructions and clear illustrations show how to
execute each recommended technique, movement and exercise, and
detailed color photographs complement the expert counsel. Each
chapter has an at-a-glance summary and a chart that outlines all
the techniques and exercises featured.
This authoritative and practical guide also includes forms that
allow players, coaches and trainers to record and refer to a
goalkeeper's progress and performance during games. These tracking
forms are important for annual evaluations and for planning
revisions to ongoing training programs.
In The NHL in Pictures and Stories, authors Ryan Dixon and Bob Duff
recount the events that have shaped the NHL. From its madcap early
years all the way to the 32-team elite professional sport that it
will be — once the newest franchise, Seattle, takes the ice in
2021 — no stone is left unturned. In this new edition, readers
are treated to more than 150 stories, ranging from game changing
decisions like allowing goalies to wear masks, to jaw-dropping
performances like Maurice Richard’s 50 goals in 50 games, to
outstanding starts like the expansion Vegas Golden Knights
competing for the Stanley Cup. Some of the events covered in The
NHL in Pictures and Stories: 1945: Maurice Richard scores 50 goals
in 50 games; 1951: Bill Barilko scores his last goal — a Cup
winner; 1958: Willie O’Ree breaks the NHL’s colour barrier;
1959: Jacques Plante starts to wear a mask; 1960: Montreal
Canadiens first ever five-time Cup champs; 1966: Bobby Hull breaks
Richard’s 50 goal record; 1971: Phil Esposito scores 76 goals;
1980: Peter Stastny defects to the NHL; 1981: Wayne Gretzky scores
50 goals in 39 games; 1989: First Russians play in the NHL; 1998:
NHL players go to the Olympics; 2005: NHL installs shootout; 2015:
Carey Price becomes first goalie to win four major awards; 2016:
Auston Matthews’ incredible rookie debut; 2018: Alex Ovechkin and
the Washington Capitals win the Cup. With more than 200 images,
hundreds of star players and dozens of artifacts from the Hockey
Hall of Fame, The NHL in Pictures and Stories is the definitive
guide to the history of the NHL.
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