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Stanley Cup Playoffs, The: The Quest for Hockey's Biggest Prize (Spectacular Sports)
Par Matt Doeden. 2022
Hockey is a thrilling, fast-paced sport, and the action gets even more intense during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Fans can't…
get enough of the booming slap shots, the devastating body checks, and the overtime finishes. The Stanley Cup Playoffs: The Quest for Hockey's Biggest Prize covers it all with exciting text and vivid photos. The greatest games, the biggest moments, and the most incredible goals are all here. Join Wayne Gretzky, Alex Ovechkin, and more hockey superstars of the past and present on a fun journey through the Stanley Cup Playoffs.The Boston Bruins (Team spirit)
Par Mark Stewart. 2011
Part of the "Team Spirit" series, this history for young fans includes fun and interesting facts about Boston's professional hockey…
team, which was the first team from the U.S. to join the NHL. For grades 3-6Ice time: the story of hockey
Par Michael McKinley. 2006
A history of ice hockey, a sport that originated in Canada and is now played at the Olympics. Discusses the…
development of the game, match details, outstanding players, and major trophies. Focuses on men's leagues and the NHL, with mention of women's hockey. For grades 5-8. 2006Sportswriter explains how coach Herb Brooks of the University of Minnesota devised a plan using his amateur players to defeat…
the professional Soviet hockey team at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. Includes play-by-play descriptions and biographical sketches of the participants in the surprising upset during the Cold War. 2005They don't play hockey in heaven: a dream, a team, and my comeback season
Par Ken Baker. 2003
Former high-school and college hockey star relates putting aside his dream of a professional sports career but then later, at…
age 31--after brain surgery and rehabilitation--playing again as the oldest rookie in pro history. Reveals details of teammates, coaches, fans, and one fast-paced hockey season. Strong language. 2003How hockey works: The Science of Hockey (How Sports Work)
Par Keltie Thomas, Greg Hall. 2002
Provides technical information about ice hockey, including the physics of skating, explosive moves (slapshot and body check), sports medicine, and…
what makes ice slippery and a hockey stick feel right. Includes tips on scoring and practicing, and discusses how the rules came about. For grades 4-7. 2002Gordie Howe: my hockey memories
Par Gordie Howe, Frank Condron. 1999
Autobiography by Canadian hockey champion, who joined the Detroit Red Wings in 1946 at the age of eighteen. Howe describes…
his career on the ice; his most famous games; and the athletes he played with, including his two sons. Some strong language. 1999The game I'll never forget: 100 hockey stars' stories
Par Chris McDonell. 2002
Collection of stories originally published in Hockey Digest, written by athletes from the 1940s to 2002 who describe the best…
hockey game they have ever played. Includes reminiscences by Ken Dryden, Phil Esposito, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, and Bobby Orr, as well as lesser known players. For senior high and older readers. 2002Real stories from the rink
Par Brian McFarlane, Steve Nease. 2002
Tales about ice hockey--its history, players, and records. Describes the first organized meet, the 1955 riot in Montreal, women participants,…
the longest and shortest contests, the first black skater on an NHL team, and the best European player. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2002The Series: What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now
Par Ken Dryden. 2022
A new book by Hall of Fame goalie and bestselling author Ken Dryden celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1972…
Summit Series SEPTEMBER 2, 1972, MONTREAL FORUM, GAME ONE: The best against the best for the first time. Canada, the country that had created the game; the Soviet Union, having taken it up only twenty-six years earlier. On the line: more than the players, more than the fans, more than Canadians and Russians knew. So began an entirely improbable, near-month-long series of games that became more and more riveting, until, for the eighth, and final, and deciding game—on a weekday, during work and school hours all across the country—the nation stopped. Of Canada’s 22 million people, 16 million watched. Three thousand more were there, in Moscow, behind the Iron Curtain, singing—Da da, Ka-na-da, nyet, nyet, So-vi-yet! It is a story long told, often told. But never like this. Ken Dryden, a goalie in the series, a lifetime observer, later a writer, tells the story in "you are there" style, as if he is living it for the first time. As if you, the reader, are too. The series, as it turned out, is the most important moment in hockey history, changing the game, on the ice and off, everywhere in the world. As it turned out, it is one of the most significant events in all of Canada’s history. Through Ken Dryden’s words, we understand why.Hockey sur glace: stories
Par Peter LaSalle. 1998
Short stories and poems centering around the sport of ice hockey. In "Le Rocket Negre," a Quebec teenager is recruited…
from an orphanage based on his apparent racial identity. In "Wellesley College for Women, 1969," a former hockey player on scholarship to Harvard reminisces about two former girlfriendsShut Out: The Game That Did Not Love Me Black
Par Bernie Saunders, Barry Meisel. 2021
Shut Out is a hockey love story. But it’s a love that was unrequited. Bernie Saunders had a passion for…
hockey. His prodigious talent was on display at all levels. But because he was Black, he was stymied at every turn and experienced nothing but taunting from opponents, spectators, coaches and even his own teammates. Despite this malevolence, Saunders continued to play, adopting a style akin to that of the historic house slave: serve but remain invisible. Signed by the Quebec Nordiques, he played with them for two years, but spent most of his career playing collegiately at Western Michigan University and in the minor leagues in Canada and the US. In the end, it was all too much for Saunders. Dogged and overwhelmed by racism, he finally left hockey to work in the corporate sector.This is a memoir about professional hockey by a player who had the potential to become a star but was blocked at almost every opportunity because of his race. In spite of this, Shut Out is a hopeful and uplifting book about facing adversity, overcoming it and moving ahead. Woven throughout the book is Saunders’s love of his family, especially his brother, John, who died at age sixty-one. Now retired, Bernie Saunders is still sought out by the hockey community for his observations and advice.The series you thought you knew: the first book written with the complete co-operation of the whole team "They've stolen…
our beer and our steaks, and then to make it worse when we go back to the hotel after the game, they give us warm, skunky Russian beer and not the good, cold Labatt's our sponsor sent. I remember thinking, 'These pricks will never beat us again! They are not going to win another game.'" —Rod Gilbert The Summit Series took place in September 1972, when Cold War tensions could not have been higher. But that was the whole point of setting up this unprecedented hockey series. Team Canada, featuring the country's best players—all NHL stars, half of them future Hall of Famers—would play an eight-game series, with four games played across Canada followed by four in Moscow. Team Canada was expected to crush their untried opponents eight games to zero, with backups playing the last four games. But five games into the series, they had mustered only one win against a tie and three stunning losses. With just three games left, Team Canada had to win all three in Moscow—all while overcoming the years of animosity and mistrust for one another fostered during the Original Six era. They would also have to overcome the ridiculous Russian refereeing that resulted in stick-swinging fights involving the players, a Canadian agent and Soviet soldiers; surmount every obstacle the Soviets and even the KGB could throw at the players and their wives; invent a hybrid style of play combining the best of East and West, one that would change the sport more than any other factor before or since; and win all three games in the last minute. And they did it all. The Summit players asked Bacon to tell their story and provided unparalleled access and candour in dozens of interviews with almost every living player. The Greatest Comeback is a universal story about overcoming bitter feuds to forge a hard-earned team spirit and inspire heroics against long odds and almost inhuman pressure—an experience so unforgettable that every member of Team Canada considers those eight games to be the highlight of their storied careersThe save of my life: My journey out of the dark
Par Corey Hirsch. 2022
A riveting look behind the mask of an NHL goalie, The Save of My Life offers understanding and hope to…
anyone living with mental illness By the time he was twenty-two years old, goaltender Corey Hirsch had realized his childhood dream of playing in the NHL, won an Olympic medal and drunk from the Stanley Cup. While he excelled on the ice, out of the net Hirsch was plagued by persistent dark thoughts and ceaseless anxiety. On days when he could barely get out of bed, he was able to push aside the endless loop of dark thoughts running inside his brain long enough to win a game. But as soon as he got back home, the agonizing cycle started all over again. And it continued, until finally he was able to confide in a team trainer who helped him get the professional treatment he needed. Diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Hirsch was able to embark on the rocky road to recovery. As one of the first professional athletes to talk openly about mental health, Hirsch wrote about his OCD for the Players' Tribune. His piece remains one of their most-read articles ever. As Hirsch says, "I am not insane. I am not a bad person. I am not weak. I have an illness, and there is a treatment.""Here comes Bobby Orr"
Par Robert B. Jackson, Robert B Jackson. 1971
Born and raised in Ontario, Bobby Orr began playing ice hockey when he was five years old. He was signed…
by the Boston Bruins at age fourteen. He went on to be voted the outstanding defenseman in the National Hockey League and the NHL's Most Valuable Player. For grades 6-9 and older readersGame misconduct: Hockey's toxic culture and how to fix it
Par Evan F Moore. 2022
Those who have been lured by the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice and everything-or-nothing attitude of the…
game know that hockey can seem like its own world. Yet in another light, that tight community can turn insular; the values of teamwork and humility can manifest as collective silence in the face of abuse and discrimination, issues which have been brought to the forefront of the sport as many share their stories for the first time. In Game Misconduct, reporters Evan Moore and Jashvina Shah reveal hockey's toxic undercurrent which has permeated the sport throughout the junior, college, and professional levels. They address the topic with a level of passion that comes from being rabid hockey fans themselves, and from experiencing its exclusivity first-hand. This necessary book lays bare the issues of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, bullying, sexism, and violence on and off the ice. Listeners will learn about notable players and activists fighting for transformation as well as those beyond the spotlight. Game Misconduct is essential for modern hockey fans, showing the truth of the sport's past and present while offering the tools to fight for a better futureGold: How gretzky's men ended canada's 50-year olympic hockey drought
Par Tim Wharnsby. 2022
"Now after fifty years, it's time for Canada to stand up and cheer. Stand up and cheer everybody! The Olympics…
Salt Lake City, 2002, men's ice hockey gold medal: Canada!" -Bob Cole, CBC play-by-play broadcaster There was no iconic Paul Henderson moment, nor a Sidney Crosby golden goal, but Canada's 5-2 victory against the rival United States in the men's 2002 Olympic gold medal game wiped out fifty years of frustration for the nation that invented ice hockey. Canadians from coast to coast were whipped into a frenzy, with impromptu celebrations on streets like Granville in Vancouver, Yonge in Toronto, Ste-Catherine in Montreal, and Portage and Main in Winnipeg. Gold is the definitive chronicle of how the men of Team Canada made history. Marking twenty years since the momentous victory, Tim Wharnsby delivers the inside story of how Gretzky built the team and Pat Quinn got them to the gold medal, featuring exclusive interviews with players, coaches, and personnelWho is wayne gretzky? (Who Was?)
Par Gail Herman. 2016
After breaking or tying more than sixty records in hockey, it's no wonder that Wayne Gretzky is known as "The…
Great One." Born in Brantford, Ontario, on January 26, 1961, in a nation obsessed with the sport, he threw himself into the game practically from the time he first laced up a pair of skates. When he retired from the NHL in 1999, he had led several teams to Stanley Cup victories, competed in the Olympics, and changed the way hockey was played forever. Known for his love for family and as a truly decent human being, Wayne Gretzky is revealed as more than a sports legend in this easy-to-read biographyAll Roads Home: A Life On and Off the Ice
Par Stephen Brunt, Bryan Trottier. 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most…
decorated Indigenous athlete.Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. In 2017, he was named one of the NHL's Top 100 Players of All Time.Trottier grew up in Val Marie, Saskatchewan, the son of a Cree/Chippewa/Metis father and an Irish-Canadian mother. All Roads Home offers a poignant, funny, wise, and inspiring look at his coming of age, both on and off the ice. It is a unique memoir in which Trottier shares stories about family, friends, teammates, and coaches, the lessons that he has learned from them, and the profound impact they have had in shaping the person he has become.Some of the incredible characters featured in the book include Trottier's father Buzz; legendary Islanders coach Al Arbour; teammates Clark Gillies and Mike Bossy; and the Penguins' Mario Lemieux, to name but a few. He'll also talk about the high school English teacher and guidance counsellor who helped him develop self-confidence and encouraged him as a writer: Governor General's Award–winning poet, Lorna Crozier.All Roads Home will also include a Foreword from bestselling author Jesse Thistle (From the Ashes) and two very special Afterwords: one from Trottier's daughter, Lindsy Ruthven, and the other from his life-long friend, beloved hockey great Dave "Tiger" Williams.Mr. Hockey: my story
Par Gordie Howe. 2014