Hockey category: 570 books
We Are Your Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs Book of Greats
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Toronto Maple Leafs official book of the greatest players and coaches from yesterday and today! We Are Your Leafs is the first book in an eight-book partnership between Fenn/Random House and the Toronto Maple Leafs as part of the team's forthcoming centennial celebration plans. It is the absolute...
The Rise of the Pittsburgh Penguins 2009-2018
Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and the Greatest Dynasty in Hockey
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The story of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the ten-year period from 2009 to 2018 reads like a classic Greek tragedy, filled with gut-wrenching plot twists and turns. After rising from the ashes of the early 2000s on the wings of young stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to capture the 2009 Stanley...
In the Name of Hockey
A closer look at emotional abuse in boys' hockey and other sports.
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Parents must question their own motives and expectations in regards to their child’s participation in a competitive sport. Was the activity imposed? Are they living vicariously through their child’s performance? It is important to establish what success means. Is it winning every game or is it improvement...
Relentless
My Life in Hockey and the Power of Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Former NHL star Bryan Berard shares the inspiring story of his life on and off the ice—from finding early success in the league and suffering a life-changing eye injury to discovering the inner strength to overcome whatever life threw at him and continue to play the game he loved.
“My career...
Miracle in Lake Placid
The Greatest Hockey Story Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
A celebration of America's greatest Olympic victory—the 1980 US–USSR hockey game!
Forty years after the "Miracle on Ice" captivated the world, this book deeply examines the impact that singular event had on the people who played and coached in it, America as a whole, and how that game changed...
by Leo Brophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Cousin piggy, brother piggy & piggy have been in the house all day. They need some exercise! So piggy has a great idea! Let's play hockey.
24 colour pages of friends trying out hockey for the first time.
by Dave Lee Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Enjoy a free sample of the e-book The Hockey Drill Book, Second Edition by downloading the first chapter: "Running Effective Practices and Drills.”
If you enjoy the FREE e-book chapter, please check out the rest of the book, about which Ken Hitchcock, head coach of the St. Louis Blues,...
Rencontre au sommet du hockey international
Tête à tête Finlande-Québec
Language: French
Release Date: August 29, 2016
À travers son livre, Yves nous permet de comprendre les grandes différences entre les deux univers malgré leurs nombreuses similitudes. Il explique la démarche du Québec et plusieurs de ses décisions ayant comme référence le succès Finlandais. Pouvons-nous nous inspirer de cette façon de...
by John Branch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
“Shows us, in tender detail, a life consumed by our unholy appetites.”—Steve Almond, New York Times Book Review
The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in...
Ice Time
A Tale of Fathers, Sons, and Hometown Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
As kids, we all had passions -- something we loved doing, experienced with our friends, dreamed about every spare moment. For Jay Atkinson, who grew up in a small Massachusetts town, it was hockey. When Bobby Orr scored the winning goal in the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals against the St. Louis Blues, Atkinson...
by Bethany Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Ice hockey—which has been evolving for thousands of years—is not now, nor has it ever been, a sport for the timid. Armed with pounds of padding, wooden sticks, and goal-driven intensity, the players of this sport are indeed a force—a fast and often fierce force. Readers of this book will learn...
by Matt Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2009
Hockey has been a part of Mario Lemieux's life since his childhood. At the age of six he was holding his own against boys four years older; by the time he was sixteen, he had captured the attention of the National Hockey league, and soon after signed on with NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. At the 2002...
Willie O'Ree
The story of the first black player in the NHL
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Willie O'Ree quietly made NHL history at the Montreal Forum on January 18, 1958, when he became the first black player to take to the ice. In the dressing room before the game, his Boston Bruins teammates told him not to worry. If any one of the Montreal players said anything to him, they'd have his...
Pink Power
The First Women's Hockey World Champions
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
At the first-ever women's hockey world championships in 1990, Canada dressed its National Women's Team in pink. Offending many, the controversial decision nevertheless drew media and public attention to the series and subsequently registration in girls' hockey went up 40%. Lorna Schultz Nicholson offers an insider's look at the power behind the pink jerseys. [Fry Reading Level - 3.2