How Hockey Saved The World

Author : M. Alexander Charns
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780595839827

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How Hockey Saved the World* by M. Alexander Charns Pdf

HOCKEY-From the Buddhist concept meaning Key to Happiness and Chilly Serenity during Bloody Brawls and Melees. How Hockey Saved the World is the greatest, if only, hockey protest book ever written. It is the often true story of how a middle-aged, overweight American got off the couch long enough to lose weight and learn to play hockey in order to find a magic puck that would end the NHL lockout, unseat President George W. Bush and end the Iraq War. A handbook on how to survive without professional sports while becoming a better parent, achieving world peace and playing hockey, however poorly. "A tongue-in-cheek view of politics and sports, delivering humor and laughs that recall the work of Mark Twain, Joseph Heller and Ambrose Bierce. -Cliff Bellamy, Durham Herald-Sun "[T]he author's subversive wit and genuine belief in the game's magic are oddly persuasive. An amiable meditation to warm even the iciest hearts." - Kirkus Discoveries After reading How Hockey Saved the World, and seeing the error of my ways, I will resign the Office of the Presidency effective January 15, 2009. -President George W. Bush

Author : Alex Charns
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780595395798

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How Hockey Saved the World* by Alex Charns Pdf

HOCKEY-From the Buddhist concept meaning Key to Happiness and Chilly Serenity during Bloody Brawls and Melees. How Hockey Saved the World is the greatest, if only, hockey protest book ever written. It is the often true story of how a middle-aged, overweight American got off the couch long enough to lose weight and learn to play hockey in order to find a magic puck that would end the NHL lockout, unseat President George W. Bush and end the Iraq War. A handbook on how to survive without professional sports while becoming a better parent, achieving world peace and playing hockey, however poorly. "A tongue-in-cheek view of politics and sports, delivering humor and laughs that recall the work of Mark Twain, Joseph Heller and Ambrose Bierce. -Cliff Bellamy, Durham Herald-Sun "[T]he author's subversive wit and genuine belief in the game's magic are oddly persuasive. An amiable meditation to warm even the iciest hearts." - Kirkus Discoveries After reading How Hockey Saved the World, and seeing the error of my ways, I will resign the Office of the Presidency effective January 15, 2009. -President George W. Bush

Author : John Chi-Kit Wong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780802095329

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Coast to Coast by John Chi-Kit Wong Pdf

In Coast to Coast, a wide range of contributors examine the historical development of hockey across Canada, in both rural and urban settings, to ask how ideas about hockey have changed.

Author : Alexander Charns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : OCLC:1330340046

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How Hockey Saved the World (and Defeated George W. Bush, But Not Necessarily in that Order) by Alexander Charns Pdf

Author : Steve Paikin
Publisher : Viking Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hockey
ISBN : 0670065609

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The New Game by Steve Paikin Pdf

Discusses the history and reform of Canadian professional ice hockey.

Author : Corey Hirsch,Sean Patrick Conboy
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781443461108

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The Save of My Life by Corey Hirsch,Sean Patrick Conboy Pdf

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.”

Author : Stan Fischler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Hockey
ISBN : 0785324453

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Great Book of Hockey by Stan Fischler Pdf

Author : Stephen Pinney MD
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483452784

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How Hockey Can Save Healthcare: A Principle-Based Approach to Reforming the Canadian Healthcare System by Stephen Pinney MD Pdf

"Canadians are passionate about their healthcare system--and their hockey. While the Canadian medical system is a source of pride―based on ideals of universal coverage, public funding, and high-quality medical care--this treasured healthcare system is failing due to soaring costs, the challenge of an aging population, and poor care delivery. It needs a reality check ... Dr. Stephen Pinney pulls the curtain back on the existing Canadian healthcare system and exposes its fundamental flaws--flaws that are the inevitable result of the system's history and evolution. Hockey, Canada's game, offers a potential principle-based solution to this national dilemma. The book proposes a path forward that would allow Canadians to redesign their healthcare system in a way that matches their ideals. That redesign, Dr. Pinney proposes, should reflect ideas most Canadians know and accept: the principles inherent in a Stanley Cup--winning hockey team."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Editors of Sports Illustrated
Publisher : Sports Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1603201513

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Sports Illustrated The Hockey Book by Editors of Sports Illustrated Pdf

From its earliest days on frozen ponds, hockey has been a sport of speed and elegance, but also one demanding courage and physical will. The Hockey Book goes deep into the heart of the game, celebrating with astounding photographs and insightful words the great players and the inspiring teams, as well as an ethos-robust and selfless-that defines the sport as much in its dynamic present as it did in hockey's hardscrabble (and helmetless) past.

Author : Richard Brignall
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781552778845

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Summit Series '72 by Richard Brignall Pdf

Chosen as one of Resource Links' Year's Best for 2011 From Crosby's winning goal at the 2010 Winter Games to Henderson's awesome goal in the 72 Summit Series, Canada's greatest hockey moments go hand in hand with how we see our place in the world.

Author : Stacy L. Lorenz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781351795890

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Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey by Stacy L. Lorenz Pdf

This volume examines the cultural meanings of high-level amateur and professional hockey in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the author analyzes English Canadian media narratives of Stanley Cup "challenge" games and championship series between 1896 and 1907. Newspaper coverage and telegraph reconstructions of Stanley Cup challenges contributed significantly to the growth of a mediated Canadian "hockey world" – and a broader "world of sport" – during this time period. By 1903, Stanley Cup hockey games had become national Canadian events, followed by audiences across the country. Hockey also played an important role in the construction of gender and class identities, and in debates about amateurism, professionalism, and community representation in sport. The author also explores the connections between violence and masculinity in Canadian hockey by examining media descriptions of "brutal" and "strenuous" play. He analyzes how notions of civic identity changed as hockey clubs evolved from amateur teams represented by players who were members of their home community to professional aggregations that included paid imports from outside the town. As a result, this volume addresses important gaps in the study of sport history and the analysis of sport and popular culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Gare Joyce
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780385672740

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When the Lights Went Out by Gare Joyce Pdf

When the Lights Went Out tells the story of a moment in the 1987 World Junior Championship that forever changed the lives of the players involved, and ignited a debate that has yet to subside about the way the game is meant to be played. When Team Canada skated onto the ice that night in Piestany, Czechoslovakia, they thought they were 60 minutes away from a gold medal. Future superstars like Brendan Shanahan and Theo Fleury, pitted against Russians like Alexei Fedorov and Alex Mogilny, dreamed of returning to Canada in glory. Instead, they were sent home empty-handed, bearers of a legacy that would follow them throughout their careers. No one who saw it will ever forget it. The mere mention of Piestany evokes the image of twenty fights breaking out all over the ice as players rushed to their mates’ defence, of haymakers, stick-swinging, and even kicking, of a referee skating off the ice in shame. ESPN hockey writer Gare Joyce tells the story of the game that marked the last time Canadian and Soviet players squared off as enemies, rather than potential team mates in the NHL. It tells the stories of the combatants on the ice. Of the coaches behind the bench. Of officials, international hockey executives, members of the media and even politicians who were caught up in the intrigue.

Author : Stephen Hardy,Andrew C. Holman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0252042204

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Hockey by Stephen Hardy,Andrew C. Holman Pdf

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.

Author : Todd Denault
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780771026355

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The Greatest Game by Todd Denault Pdf

This game wasn't about money, points, or trophies. Instead it was played for pride, both personal and national. It was a confrontation twenty years in the making and it marked a turning point in the history of hockey. On December 31, 1975, the Montreal Canadiens, the most successful franchise in the NHL, hosted the touring Central Red Army, the dominant team in the Soviet Union. For three hours millions of people in both Canada and the Soviet Union were glued to their television sets. What transpired that evening was a game that surpassed all the hype and was subsequently referred to as "the greatest game ever played." Held at the height of the Cold War, this remarkable contest transcended sports and took on serious cultural, sociological, and political overtones. And while the final result was a 3-3 tie, no one who saw the game was left disappointed. This exhibition of skill was hockey at its finest, and it set the bar for what was to follow as the sport began its global expansion.

Author : Michael McKinley
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780143193098

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It's Our Game by Michael McKinley Pdf

If every hockey player’s dream begins on a frozen pond, it reaches its pinnacle in a packed arena facing off against a bitter international rival. Could be the mighty Soviets. Could be the vainglorious Americans. Doesn’t matter, as long as the guys, and more recently, the women, who come from the farming villages, logging towns, and bustling cities of Canada show up to play the game the way we invented it to be played. That’s the way it’s been for a hundred years. No game matters more than the one that pits our best against the world’s best. From the earliest days of the past century, when milkmen still did their rounds in horse-drawn carts each morning, to the Sochi Olympics, where both the men and women stood on their blue lines with gold medals around their necks as the Canadian flag was raised. This beautiful book, with rare archival images, celebrates a hundred of the greatest moments from Hockey Canada, the organization that has given Canada its most cherished hockey memories. It’s Our Game is the definitive account of a century of Canadians working to be the best at the sport they love most.