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Walking Together Forever

Jim Jackson
Walking Together Forever Book PDF

Author : Jim Jackson
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Hockey
ISBN : 9781582613895

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Fred Shero, the head coach of the teams forever remembered as the Broad Street Bullies, chose the hours before Game 4 of the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals to inscribe this on the locker room blackboard: Win together now and we walk together forever. Well, of course, that team went on to win not one, but two Stanley Cups. Shero could not have been more prophetic. Thirty years later, members of those Cup teams are still revered in the city of Philadelphia and throughout the hockey world, for that matter. In Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies Then and Now author Jim Jackson wants to bring people back to those glorious days of the 1974 and 1975 Stanley Cup championships through the telling of so many of the incredible anecdotes that emanated from the many memorable characters that created the glory: Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies Then and Now will follow the major principals of the Cup wins, taking readers through the remainder of those heroes' hockey careers, into retirement, and up to the present. Many of the stories of their personal trials, travails, and successes since hoisting Lord Stanley's Cup are as compelling as those from the championship years themselves. In the eyes of hockey fans, members of those teams have indeed walked together forever.

Unmasked

Bernie Parent,Stan Hochman
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Author : Bernie Parent,Stan Hochman
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9781633190931

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Unmasked by Bernie Parent,Stan Hochman Pdf

In a city known as home to some of the sporting world's biggest stars, few have ever shined as brightly as the Philadelphia Flyers' Bernie Parent, and this autobiography shares how he became one of the most sensational goalies in NHL history. The catchphrase "Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent" became ubiquitous in Philadelphia as Parent won two Vezina Trophies as the league's top goaltender, two Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP, and two Stanley Cup championships, but this work shows how his on-the-ice exploits were only a part of his amazing story. After suffering a career-ending eye injury in 1979, Parent's life took a turn for the worse, a time during which he battled alcoholism and watched his marriage end in divorce. In the end, however, facing the fears that had plagued him all his life led Parent to find solace and happiness once again. In "Unmasked," Parent traces his life and career from his days as a youngster learning to skate to his current role as a Flyers ambassador and public speaker. Featuring rare photos from his personal archive and accompanying text from legendary Philadelphia sports columnist Stan Hochman, this life story gives Parent's millions of fans a never-before-seen glimpse into the life of a hockey icon.

If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Flyers

Lou Nolan,Sam Carchidi,Bernie Parent
If These Walls Could Talk Philadelphia Flyers Book PDF

Author : Lou Nolan,Sam Carchidi,Bernie Parent
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781633199293

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If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Flyers by Lou Nolan,Sam Carchidi,Bernie Parent Pdf

From the days of Bobby Clarke, Bernie Parent, and the Broad Street Bullies, and up to the current era with stars like Claude Giroux and Shayne Gostisbehere, Lou Nolan has lived and breathed Flyers hockey as the team's longtime public address announcer. In If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Flyers, Nolan provides insight into the Flyers' inner sanctum as only he can. Featuring conversations with players past and present as well as off-the-wall anecdotes only Nolan can tell, this is your rinkside ticket to some of the most memorable moments and characters in Philadelphia hockey history.

The Broad Street Bullies

Jack Chevalier
The Broad Street Bullies Book PDF

Author : Jack Chevalier
Publisher : New York : Collier Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Hockey
ISBN : LCCN:74015131

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Text and photographs present a brief history of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team with short biographies of the team members.

Flyer Lives

Jakki Clarke,Ed Snider
Flyer Lives Book PDF

Author : Jakki Clarke,Ed Snider
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1600787568

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Flyer Lives by Jakki Clarke,Ed Snider Pdf

Stretching back to the team's birth in the National Hockey League expansion of 1967, this record follows the Philadelphia Flyers' story, starting with the rabid fan base they built during their "Broad Street Bullies" era of the 1970s. The hard-charging Bullies' back-to-back Stanley Cup victories in 1974 and 1975 are documented, and the team's status as a perennial contender is illustrated through their 34 playoff appearances. Penned by charismatic superstar and team manager Bobby Clarke's own daughter Jakki, this account reflects the personal relationships the author established with many of the team's best skaters. Drawn from up-close interviews with more than 30 of the Flyers' greats regarding their lives, playing careers, challenges, and successes, this compilation is a must-have keepsake that all Philadelphia hockey fans are sure to cherish. Players from all eras are represented--including Billy Barber, Bernie Parent, Mark Howe, Keith Primeau, and more--sharing never-before-told stories about learning to skate, playing pranks in the locker room, enjoying the fruits of victory, and overcoming crushing defeat. Containing valuable advice for both athletes and parents, this is an intimate look at a group of men who have experienced the ups and downs of a demanding sport at all levels.

Don't Call Me Goon

Greg Oliver,Richard Kamchen
Don t Call Me Goon Book PDF

Author : Greg Oliver,Richard Kamchen
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770904217

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Don't Call Me Goon by Greg Oliver,Richard Kamchen Pdf

Professional hockey enforcers—popularly known as “goons”—finally get their due in this rollicking look at the players who have perfected the art of making mayhem. Whether they are called upon to duke it out with a fellow troublemaker or intimidate an opponent’s top scorer, these are the men who get the crowds to their feet, the sports radio shows buzzing, and the TV audience spilling their beers in excitement. Old timers like Joe Hall and Red Horner are profiled here, along with legendary heavy hitters Tiger Williams, Stu Grimson, and Bob Probert, fan favorites Tie Domi and Georges Laroque, and contemporary hockey stars Arron Asham and Brian McGrattan. The book also delves into the intense debate over the issue of violence on the ice as well as the personal and professional dramas of the NHL’s bad boys: the suspensions, the concussions, and the constant controversy of their role in the game.

Score!

Gene Hart
Score Book PDF

Author : Gene Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000018734652

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Presents recollections from the author's twenty-five-year career as the announcer for the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team.

The Riverton Rifle

Reggie Leach
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Author : Reggie Leach
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781771641388

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The Riverton Rifle by Reggie Leach Pdf

“It all comes down to making the right life choices,” says the NHL’s legendary Reggie Leach, and this intimate biography lays bare the decisions that led him to become one of the best snipers in hockey history. Nicknamed the Riverton Rifle for his thrilling speed and deadly shooting skills, Leach overcame a childhood marked by poverty and racism to rise through the NHL, playing for the Stanley Cup-winning 1975 Philadelphia Flyers. Through Leach’s own recollections, The Riverton Rifle traces his trajectory from humble beginnings to NHL stardom, and follows the dramatic fall caused by his drinking problem and his subsequent rebirth as a successful businessman, family man, and pillar of the Aboriginal community.

Full Spectrum

Jay Greenberg
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Author : Jay Greenberg
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781633198272

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Full Spectrum by Jay Greenberg Pdf

Full Spectrum covers the Philadelphia Flyers like no other sports franchise has ever been covered before. The Flyers are a unique hockey organization in a special sports town and Full Spectrum gives you the whole story: on the ice, in the dressing room, and behind the scenes. From the campaign to gain an NHL franchise in 1965, through the building of a hard-hitting Stanley Cup championship roster that performed at its best after Kate Smith's thundering rendition of "God Bless America"; from the tragic loss of goaltending great Pelle Lindbergh to the controversy-strewn signing of mega-star Eric Lindros; from the Leach-Barber-Clarke line to the Legion of Doom, Full Spectrum sets new standards for contemporary sports history.

Blades, Bands, and Ballers

Lou Scheinfeld
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Author : Lou Scheinfeld
Publisher : Camino Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Arenas
ISBN : 1680980475

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"RUNNING AN ARENA WAS NO GAME I had many ideas on making the Philadelphia Flyers and the Spectrum zing, some solid- some zany. Ed Snider pretty much let me call the shots, as long as I ran the more risky or costly ones by him. If I couldnt convince him, Id try to tamper them down from Just Plain Wild to Lets Hope We Dont Get Arrested. I was a riverboat gambler, Ed was a card counter. I doubled down, he cut the odds. I was a swaggering Sagittarian. He was the cautious Capricorn. I dubbed us Flash & Cash. Between us, we went to work selling hockey, Philly Style. Blades, Bands, and Ballers is Lou Scheinfelds inside story of running the Spectrum with Ed Snider. Stories include the Jerry Wolman blood feud, Sinatra and The Philly Mob, making the Broad Street Bullies, Smokin Joe Fraziers snub, Elvis sad final stop, Dr. J. and the 76ers, the Electric Factorys impact, Rizzo and The Rolling Stones, the Kate Smith debacle and many more"--

Guts and Go Overtime

Calvin Daniels
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Author : Calvin Daniels
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1894974026

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Saskatchewan is hockey. The only activity more pervasive is farming, and often the two are combined when farmers play hockey for their community teams. As Calvin Daniels discovered when researching and writing the first Guts and Go (2004), hockey is so intertwined with everyday life in this province that hockey stories are much more than the retelling of games and tournaments. Indeed, they are every bit as much about the people and the province as they are about the game. It all adds up to some pretty entertaining stories, not only of the well-known stars who ply their skills in pro leagues, but also the local players and teams who bring excitement and pride to communities across the province. Whether it's a great event like the Moosomin Moose playing marathon hockey to set a Guinness World Record and raise money for a new town hospital or the exciting play of Shaunavon's Rhett Warrener of the Calgary Flames, readers will discover that Guts and Go Overtime is written for anyone, young or old, who enjoys hockey and good stories, regardless of where they live.

Hockey Night Fever

Stephen Cole
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Author : Stephen Cole
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780385682138

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A wildly evocative chronicle of the decade that changed hockey forever. "Lady Byng died in Boston" read a sign in the Garden arena in 1970, a cheery dismissal of the NHL trophy awarded the game's most gentlemanly player. A new age of hockey was dawning. For 30 years, hockey was an orderly and (relatively) well-behaved sport. There was one Commissioner, six teams and five colours--red, white, black, blue and yellow. Oh, and one nationality. Until 1967, every player, coach, referee and GM in the NHL had been a Canadian. And then came NHL expansion, the founding of the WHA, and garish new uniforms. The Seventies had arrived: the era that gave us not only disco, polyester suits, lava lamps and mullets but also the movie Slap Shot and the arrest of ten NHL players for on-ice mayhem. But it also gave us hockey's greatest encounter (the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit), its most splendid team, the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens, and the most aesthetically satisfying game--the three-all tie on New Year's Eve, 1975, between the Canadiens and the Soviet Red Army. Modern hockey was born in the sport's wild, sensational, sometimes ugly Seventies growth spurt. The forces at play in the decade's battle for hockey supremacy--dazzling speed vs. brute force--are now, for better or worse, part of hockey's DNA. This book is a welcome reappraisal of the ten years that changed how the sport was played and experienced. Informed by first-hand interviews with players and game officials, and sprinkled with sidebars on the art and artifacts that defined Seventies hockey, the book brings dramatically alive hockey's most eventful, exciting decade.

Cold War on Ice

John G. Robertson,Carl T. Madden
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Author : John G. Robertson,Carl T. Madden
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476651309

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Cold War on Ice by John G. Robertson,Carl T. Madden Pdf

Between December 28, 1975, and January 11, 1976, a groundbreaking hockey event took place: Super Series '76. Eight National Hockey League clubs each hosted a single exhibition game against one of two touring teams from the USSR: Central Red Army or Wings of the Soviet. Officially nothing was at stake, but serious hockey fans realized that a Cold War clash of political ideologies was occurring on North American ice surfaces. The top pro teams would finally meet the best "amateurs" from the Soviet Elite League. The reputations of the NHL and Soviet hockey were both on the line. Canadians already knew how strong the Soviets were, based on the eye-opening experiences of both countries' hockey stars in the 1972 and 1974 Summit Series. For many Americans, however, the talents of the exotic, Eastern Bloc visitors provided a stunning revelation. This book outlines the history of the intense Canada-USSR hockey rivalry that preceded Super Series '76 and then focuses on those eight captivating games in New York, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Buffalo, Boston, Chicago, Long Island and Philadelphia. Two of these contests are still widely discussed today for vastly different reasons. One may have been the greatest hockey game ever played.

Blue-Collar Conservatism

Timothy J. Lombardo
Blue Collar Conservatism Book PDF

Author : Timothy J. Lombardo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812224832

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Blue-Collar Conservatism by Timothy J. Lombardo Pdf

Blue-Collar Conservatism examines the blue-collar, white supporters of Frank Rizzo—Philadelphia's police commissioner turned mayor—and shows how the intersection of law enforcement and urban politics created one of the least understood but most consequential political developments in recent American history.

Philadelphia Flyers

Claryssa Lozano
Philadelphia Flyers Book PDF

Author : Claryssa Lozano
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781489631725

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Philadelphia Flyers by Claryssa Lozano Pdf

Did you know that the Philadelphia Flyers earned the nickname The Broad Street Bullies? The Flyers quickly gained a reputation as a team with a physical style and a competitive attitude after joining the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1967. Learn about the team’s star players, dedicated coaches, and more in Philadelphia Flyers, an Inside the NHL book.