Hockey S Glory Days

Author : Dan Diamond,Eric Zweig
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781449450069

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Hockey's Glory Days by Dan Diamond,Eric Zweig Pdf

For 25 years prior to expansion in 1967, big-league pro hockey consisted of only six teams and about 120 players. A document called the "C-Form," signed by young, often poor, Canadian boys, could bind a player to one franchise for life, thus insuring a team's future. Intense rivalries brewed, as the game, the rink it was played on, and the equipment players wore evolved. Offenses increased as the curved stick and the booming "slap shot" became all the rage. Hockey's Glory Days relives these exciting decades, when the Montreal Canadiens made 10 consecutive appearances in the Stanley Cup finals, winning the last five, and when the Chicago Blackhawks and Toronto Maple Leafs dominated the '60s. The book features more than 126 player and team photos, plus individual and team statistics for every season from 1949-50 to 1968-69. Hockey's best forwards, goaltenders, and defensemen are profiled. The authors—experts in their field—include photographs and statistics of greats the likes of Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, and Jacques Plante. Hockey's Glory Days even includes the "best" and "worst" statistics and trivia from this era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091208017

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Hockey's Glory Days : the 1950s and '60s by Anonim Pdf

For 25 years prior to expansion in 1967, big-league pro hockey consisted of only six teams and about 120 players. A document called the "C-Form," signed by young, often poor, Canadian boys, could bind a player to one franchise for life, thus insuring a team's future. Intense rivalries brewed, as the game, the rink it was played on, and the equipment players wore evolved. Offenses increased as the curved stick and the booming "slap shot" became all the rage. Hockey's Glory Days relives these exciting decades, when the Montreal Canadiens made 10 consecutive appearances in the Stanley Cup finals, winning the last five, and when the Chicago Blackhawks and Toronto Maple Leafs dominated the '60s. The book features more than 126 player and team photos, plus individual and team statistics for every season from 1949-50 to 1968-69. Hockey's best forwards, goaltenders, and defensemen are profiled. The authors—experts in their field—include photographs and statistics of greats the likes of Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, and Jacques Plante. Hockey's Glory Days even includes the "best" and "worst" statistics and trivia from this era.

Author : John Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Hockey
ISBN : 0973971614

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Hockey Night in Mildmay : the Glory Days of Hockey in Mildmay, Ontario by John Thompson Pdf

Author : Andrea Alexander
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Hockey players
ISBN : 1631776029

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Glory Days Press Sports Biographies: Alexander Ovechkin by Andrea Alexander Pdf

Alexander Ovechkin is one of the biggest names in the NHL. Drafted by the Washington Capitals in 2004, he has continually set franchise and NHL records every year. Read more about his hockey story and his domination on the ice since he was a child in Russia.

Author : L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328637246

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Glory Days by L. Jon Wertheim Pdf

A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.

Author : Michael Hance
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780738847139

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Glory Days by Michael Hance Pdf

The Shamrock Tavern is a working-class bar, a place where the blue-collar regulars would gather for a pint or two on their way home from work. But once hockey season began, Saturday would become the night to be at the Shamrock, to watch the Hockey Night in Canada, to cheer the home team, to share the comaraderie of the common man. The Shamrock's best days are behind her when Tim Whittaker stumbles in from the cold November night. Once, when he was a boy, he had been a dedicated hockey fan. All that ended however with the death of his father, with whom he had shared the game. But this night, rather than spend another Saturday evening alone, he decides to stay awhile and watch the game on the TV behind the bar. Eddie Ross spent seventeen seasons as a minor league goaltender, toiling in relative obscurity in towns like Omaha and Toledo. After his career comes to an end, Eddie returns home to Toronto where he discovered the Shamrock, a place that would be his refuge, its regulars his family, for the better part of the next forty years. Ruth Callaghan inherited the Shamrock from her parents. Now she is faced with the reality that it is failing as a business. When a developer makes her an offer too good to be true, she must face the hardest decision of her life: Does she sell the tavern and give up the only life she has ever known or does she continue to fight a losing battle and take whatever comes? Glory Days tells the story of how these three individuals come together to reawaken one's love of the game, another's pride in his past and gives the third the courage to break free. Rich in nostalgia and character, the book is a must-read for any hockey fan and a compelling story of human compassion for everyone.

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780557036929

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Bobby Orr and Me by Martin Avery Pdf

Martin Avery reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul. Bobby Orr And Me flows from Avery's boyhood games in the Muskoka/Parry Sound region in the heart of Canada and it examines the globalization of hockey. Part memoir, part essay on national identity, part hockey history, Hockey Dreams is a meditation by a Canadian author on the essence of the game that helps define our nation.

Author : Boria Majumdar,Nalin Mehta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135275754

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India and the Olympics by Boria Majumdar,Nalin Mehta Pdf

The Olympic movement, including the relevant records and statistics, provides a unique prism to understand the complex evolution of modern Indian society. Drawing on hitherto unused archival sources, this book examines the relations between India's place in the Olympic movement and the country's quest for a national and international identity.

Author : John Rosengren
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402200471

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Blades of Glory by John Rosengren Pdf

This behind-the-scenes examination reveals how the relentless pressure to wincan inspire or destroy a team of high school hockey champions.

Author : Garry Glave
Publisher : ShieldCrest
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781911090106

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A Brief History Of International Ice Hockey by Garry Glave Pdf

In the 19th century, the sport of ice hockey was first played in the eastern part of Canada, and by the latter part of the century, the new winter game began spreading to other countries like the United States, Great Britain, and Czechoslovakia. As the 20th century unfolded, Sweden, Finland, and the Soviet Union became fully involved with the game. During that same period, a North American league, the National Hockey League (NHL), and two major international competitions such as the World Ice Hockey Championship, and the Winter Olympics' Ice Hockey Tournament were introduced to the hockey world. Today, in the 21st century, people from all corners of the globe participate in the game, and this book illustrates on how the sport was formed and developed in the some of the top ice hockey nations in the world.

Author : Colin D. Howell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0802082483

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Blood, Sweat and Cheers by Colin D. Howell Pdf

A look at the contribution of sport to the making of the Canadian nation, focusing on the gradual transition from rural sporting practices to the emphasis on team sports that accompanied the industrial and urban transition.

Author : Joseph Maguire,Mark Falcous
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135999131

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Sport and Migration by Joseph Maguire,Mark Falcous Pdf

In this dazzling collection of papers, leading international sport studies scholars chart the patterns, policies and personal experiences of labour migration within and around sport, and in doing so cast important new light both on the forces shaping modern sport and on the role that sport plays in shaping the world economy and global society. Contains a broad range of case studies focussing on such diverse areas as European and African soccer, Japanese baseball and rugby union in New Zealand.

Author : Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Laura Robinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781611592153

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hooked on Hockey by Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Laura Robinson Pdf

With 101 family-oriented stories by hockey fans, hockey families, and NHLers, this book will delight anyone who enjoys hockey, whether in the backyard, in school, or at the professional level. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hooked on Hockey is full of fun, heartwarming and inspiring stories for hockey fans and families. Family-oriented stories from everyday hockey players and fans, as well as revealing personal stories from NHLers and hockey insiders, will captivate readers.

Author : Ryan Minkoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493058426

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Thin Ice by Ryan Minkoff Pdf

Ryan Minkoff was blessed with athleticism, perseverance, and an unquenchable passion for playing hockey. His journey to the pros against lofty odds was, as he says, “unconventional.” Minkoff’s love for the game began in Minnesota, the State of Hockey, where his youth and high-school experiences were anything but ordinary. His suitcase always packed, he played for seven different hockey programs in a fourteen-year span. While Minkoff’s confidence wavered and was often challenged, his determination and passion stayed strong, and he found his way to the University of Washington to play in the unfamiliar world of club hockey. Despite discouraging circumstances, such as games in empty arenas starting well after midnight to hitchhiking home after a long road trip, Minkoff not only set records, captained the squad, and ran the club as the president, he also formed strong bonds with his coaches and teammates. Following an illustrious club career, Minkoff landed in the professional ranks of Finland, where—in the midst of nearly crashing a Zamboni, acting as the town’s Santa Claus, and sleeping at the rink—he truly discovered his gift of a lifetime in the game of hockey. Thin Ice is an honest, witty, inspirational coming-of-age story. Ryan Minkoff’s debut memoir is for anyone who roots for an underdog whose dreams will not fade no matter the obstacles.

Author : Iri Cermak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476626963

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The Cinema of Hockey by Iri Cermak Pdf

Ice hockey has featured in North American films since the early days. Hockey’s sizable cinematic repertoire explores different views of the sport, including the role of aggression, the business of sports, race and gender, and the role of women in the game. This critical study focuses on hockey themes in more than 50 films and television movies from the U.S. and Canada spanning several decades. Depictions of historical games are discussed, including the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” and the 1972 Summit Series. National myths that inform ideas of the hockey player are examined. Production techniques that enhance hockey as on-screen spectacle are covered.