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We Love Hockey - 25 Stories about the Passion for the Game (Hardcover)
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We Love Hockey - 25 Stories about the Passion for the Game (Hardcover)
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It is the 26th minute of the Finland-Russia semifinal of the 2011
IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships: Finnish player Mikael
Granlund, just 19 years old, skates around behind the Russian goal.
Suddenly he scoops the puck onto the toe of his blade, glides
forward past the side of the goal and slams the puck into the net.
The players and spectators go wild. It was a once-in-a-lifetime
goal, a goal that was an artistic masterpiece, so beautiful that
the Finnish post office created a stamp to celebrate it. Contrast
that story with this one: in Sparta Prague's home arena, Vladimir
Novacek steers the ice resurfacing machine around the rink. What's
so special about that? Novacek has been maintaining the ice for
Sparta since 1968; he is now 82 years old. His work doesn't prompt
much excitement, and he certainly doesn't have his own postage
stamp. Still, the young Finnish world champion and the elderly
Czech ice manager are united by their dedication to the sport of
ice hockey. Their stories and many others are told in We Love
Hockey. The very personal and emotional vignettes and stunning
photographs make this book extremely exciting and give it a very
special place in the sports literature market. It's about the
greatest and the smallest moments, the men and women who are
passionate about this sport,and everything that makes ice hockey so
fascinating.
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