Hockey category: 570 books
Hockey Fight in Canada
The Big Media Faceoff over the NHL
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
In late 2013, Canadians were intrigued to learn the NHL chose Rogers as its exclusive national broadcaster over both CBC and Rogers’s bitter rival, Bell Canada. The decision was met with equal parts fascination, shock and anger. When CBC rank-and-file employees came to believe their leaders...
by Bob Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Maine�s long winters would seem the ideal place for hockey to develop, but blistering winter conditions, frigid temperatures, and windchill made the sport unpleasant and even dangerous. The problem was not solved until 1976, when Harold Alfond donated a large sum of money for the establishment of a...
The Devil And Bobby Hull
How Hockey's Original Million-Dollar Man Became the Game's Lost Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An award-winning writer sets the record straight on hockey's forgotten golden boy--Bobby Hull
In his prime, few could dispute Bobby Hull's athletic brilliance--the first to have five 50-goal seasons, the highest scorer on the 1976 Canada Cup team, the first to use the slapshot as a scoring...
Now You Know Hockey
The Book of Answers
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
As Canadians, we all think we know hockey inside and out, but Doug Lennox, the head referee of Q&A, delivers the score on everything from All-Stars to Zambonis and stickhandles the skinny on who wore the first mask in hockey, how the term hat trick originated, and just where hockey was invented. Along...
The Lives of Conn Smythe
From the Battlefield to Maple Leaf Gardens: A Hockey Icon's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The first full-length biography of one of hockey's - and Canada's - most influential forces, Conn Smythe.
While the story of the Toronto Maple Leafs has been told many times, there has never been a full biography of the man who created, built and managed the team, turning it from a small-market...
by Ross Bonander
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
As a hockey player, Mario Lemieux's skill, determination, passion, and courage in the face of adversity had an enormous impact on his peers in the world of professional hockey. In fact his influence began before he ever reached the National Hockey League, and it continues through to today, eight...
Fighting The Good Fight
Why On-Ice Violence Is Killing Hockey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Whether it's on-ice fist fights or head shots into the glass, hockey has become a nightly news spectacle with players pummeling and bashing each other across the ice like drunken gladiators. And while the NHL may actually condone on-ice violence as a ticket draw, diehard hockey fan and expert Adam...
by David H. Hendrickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
How did the kid who was always falling down achieve his dreams of playing college hockey? How did he finish as co-captain on a team that enjoyed the best season in the program's history?
Dave Hendrickson's cult classic tells it all: part memoir, part roadmap of how to achieve a dream, and part...
by Don Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Broadcasting icon and bestselling author Don Cherry is back to give us more of what we want: behind-the-scenes sports stories that are as colourful as his wardrobe.
For the last sixty years, Don Cherry has lived and breathed hockey. He has interviewed all of hockey's biggest names on Grapevine...
by Don MacAdam, Gail Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Learn the skills and drills you need as a first-time hockey coach—in a day!
For first-time coaches, Coaching Beginner Hockey Drills and Skills In a Day For Dummies presents the basic practice drills that will sharpen player skills and make coaching fun and effective.
Includes simple...
New York Rangers
Greatest Moments and Players
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
An Original Six NHL member, the Broadway Blueshirts boast one of the most renowned histories in the last hundred years of North American professional hockey. With the New York Rangers returning to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in twenty years in the 20132014 season, their presence is...
Open Ice
Reflections and Confessions of a Hockey Lifer
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Second only to family, the game of hockey is the tribe to which sports writer Jack Falla passionately belongs. If
Home Ice
let readers in on the role hockey played in his early life,
Open Ice
takes them on a trip beyond his backyard rink to a reunion of the six living members...
Hockey Colors
My First NHL Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
What better way to introduce your child to the entertaining, action-packed world of hockey than through a new series of books aimed at the youngest of hockey fans? Published through the combined efforts of the NHL, the NHLPA and Fenn/Tundra, My First NHL Books introduce preschool readers to the essential...
by Christopher Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
What better way to introduce your child to the entertaining, action-packed world of hockey than through a new series of books aimed at the youngest of hockey fans? Published through the combined efforts of the NHL, the NHLPA and Fenn/Tundra, My First NHL Books introduce preschool readers to the essential...