This guide to hockey: provides an overview of the sport; explores the rules, terminology, players, and history of hockey; and offers advice on choosing equipment, getting into "hockey shape," and locating a youth hockey league.
The real story behind the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team is a legacy of hope, hard work, and homegrown triumph. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, Coffey explores the untold stories of the U.S. upstarts, their Soviet opponents, and the forces that brought them together.
"Home Ice" is a collection of essays and memoirs celebrating the joys of one family's backyard rink and reflecting on the values and lessons of winters spent together. A bonus chapter explains how to build your own backyard rink.
Filled with splendid photos by Harold Barkley, this book contains profiles of 74 great players, action photos, statistics on players and teams. It is treat for any fan.
Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by "Sports Illustrated" as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, "The Game" is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey. Intelligent and insightful, former Montreal Canadiens goalie and former President of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ken Dryden captures the ...
Jesus saves - but Espo puts in the rebound in this raucous, ribald memoir At a party marking the end of his third season with the Blackhawks, Phil Esposito told coach Billy Reay and GM Tommy Ivan that they had a great team, maybe even a dynasty, but that the two of them would screw it up. It was a classic Espo moment (and may have had something ...
Featuring profiles of top NHL goaltenders in each chapter, this guide to hockey goaltending contains instructions on the fundamentals of playing goal. Advice on progressive techniques and off-ice conditioning exercises is also included, along with tips on mental training and choosing equipment.
First released in 1996, "Hockey the NHL: The Basics" quickly became an international standard for players of all ages and at any position who wanted to get into the game and sharpen their hockey skills. This new edition lays the groundwork for a successful game and helps players improve fitness, prevent injuries, and make hockey a part of an ...
Originally published in 1951, and rejected at the time by one NHL coach as "the product of a three-year-old mind," Lloyd Percival's "The Hockey Handbook" went on to become an internationally recognized classic. Russian and European coaches seized on the book as the first authoritative, analytical treatment of hockey fundamentals and based their ...
This small-town memoir is centered on a man's involvement in the high school hockey team on which he played a generation before. He gets to know the various players, shares insights into their individual challenges and triumphs, and witnesses his own young son's hero worship of the players.
Master the Art of Goaltending - with a Top NHL Coach at Your Side. Hockey tradition dictates that "the goaltender is in a team sport, playing alone." But with this comprehensive, cutting-edge guide from top NHL goalie coach Jim Corsi, goalies are now in expert company. From the history and psychology of goaltending to the most recent developments ...
Dan Bylsma of the Los Angeles Kings has achieved his childhood dream of playing in the NHL. It was a dream cultivated on a small, homemade ice rink maintained by his father, Jay. Dan and Jay vividly describe their personal journeys and explain their methods to cope with both accomplishment and failure.
A staggering catalogue of deception, greed and outright theft. "A groundbreaking piece of investigative journalism. Conway has uncovered the sports scandal of the century".
The most celebrated of all sports trophies has held everything from beer to infants and has been carted from Moscow's Red Square to Bob's Big Boy. Readers can follow the true exploits of the prestigious trophy beyond the champagne toasts and all-star embraces by reading the surprising and often touching accounts presented here.
Coaches and competitive amateur players of all ages will find this instructive book a "must read". Smith's systems are strategies for play that capitalize on a team's strengths and a coach's philosophy, and as such, they can be tailored to suit a wide range of situations.
This expanded edition offers hockey fans a complete history of the sport and is filled with facts and statistics gathered from more than 75 writers, historians, and statisticians.
On one level, this is the personal story of Theoren Fleury, the diminutive captain of the NHL's Calgary Flames. On another level, this book examines how a pro athlete comes to be famous, and what it means. It is a story about commercialism fed by adulation, about power and riches and the presumed and real virtues of the star players who acquire ...
"One of this continent's master craftsmen of sporting prose" ("Sports Illustrated") and three-time National Magazine Award-winner Gare Joyce goes undercover to learn the secrets of NHL scouts. Veteran sports writer Gare Joyce realizes a long-held secret ambition as he spends a full season embedded as a hockey scout. Joyce's year on the hockey ...
Synonymous with high-risk, maximum-velocity hockey, dark rumor and foreign intrigue, Pavel Bure's career is both remarkable and riveting, but who is Pavel Bure, really?
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So You Want to Play in the NHL: A Guide for Young Players
