Hockey category: 570 books
Hard Core Hockey : Essential Skills, Strategies, and Systems from the Sport's Top Coaches: Essential Skills, Strategies, and Systems from the Sport's Top Coaches
Essential Skills, Strategies, and Systems from the Sport's Top Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
“Coach Pecknold has created a no-gimmicks system for teaching skills and strategy that gets players to the next level.”
--George Gwozdecky, head coach of the University of Denver men’s ice hockey team, and 2005 National Coach of the Year
Hard Core Hockey is an all-in-one guide to playing...
by H. J. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Everything you wanted to know about the Canada Cup, the predecessor of the World Cup of Hockey. The Canada Cup saw the birth of international hockey involving NHL players. Following the Summit Series in 1972 and 1974, the world would finally see the nations of Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, the...
by Rob Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
ROCK YOUR FANTASY LEAGUE
Attention, hockey fantasy managers! Do you know which players offer the best value? Which player is a Cherry Pick? And who’s a Cherry Bomb? Are some players only Foxy by Proxy?
Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index is a gold mine for stats freaks—the key to unlocking...
Where Countries Come to Play
Celebrating the World of Olympic Hockey and the Triple Gold Club
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Where Countries Come to Play chronicles each Olympic tournament, from the 1920 Antwerp games to Vancouver in 2010. Illustrated with photographs from the IIHF archives, the book features rare pictures of games and players, as well as memorabilia and artifacts. Each event is retold through a detailed...
Eileen Peerless Power Skating Method
The Art of Technique Applied to Hockey Skating
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Eileen Peerless Power Skating Method offers proven techniques from a power skating expert that will help hockey skaters of all ages, abilities, and levels to improve power, speed, and overall performance on the ice. Relying on her nearly three decades of experience teaching hundreds of hockey players,...
Gratoony the Loony
The Wild, Unpredictable Life of Gilles Gratton
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
One of hockey’s most colourful characters, from hockey’s most colourful era, tells all
Gilles Gratton was not a typical pro hockey player. He refused to don his equipment and man his net if the planets were not properly aligned. He skated naked at practice. He created one of hockey’s...
Offside by a Mile
Confessions of a Hockey Mom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
When four-year-old Conner starts pleading for hockey skates, his mother’s dreamy fantasies of après ski’s toasty fires, charming chalets, and chilled chardonnay rapidly evaporate. Soon, Astra reluctantly raises the white flag to the culture of hockey, and life becomes a whirlwind of early morning...
by Wayne Tefs
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
After 15 long years the passion of Winnipeg's hockey fan's was reignited with the return of the NHL. A passion that would sell out an arena's worth of season tickets in mere minutes. A passion that would electrify the home team and send shivers down their opponents's spines. A passion that sports...
by Gare Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The season’s must-have gift book Some sports seem to have a natural home. Soccer in Brazil, rugby in New Zealand, cricket in India. And Canada’s game? Why hockey, of course. But it wasn’t always that way. By 1982, the Soviets had won every World Junior Hockey Championship except one, while Canada...
by Anthony M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
In This Compelling Block-Buster Guide Discover Hockey, Hockey Coach, Wayne Gretzky, Hockey History, NHL Franchise, Skating Techniques, Rink Maintenance and More!
Fighting for Gold
The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Canada is internationally recognized as a leader in men's and women's hockey - but in 2006 Canada had yet to conquer the world of sledge hockey, the Paralympic version of ice hockey played by athletes with a physical disability in the lower part of the body. The Canadian Men's Sledge Hockey team came...
by James Mancuso
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Hockey in the Capital District chronicles professional hockey in the capital region of New York State: Albany, Schenectady, and Troy. A total of six professional teams have taken the ice in four different leagues, beginning in the 1952�1953 season with the Troy Uncle Sam�s Trojans. The tradition...
Hockey Tonk
The Amazing Story of the Nashville Predators
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2008
Hard-hitting, nonstop action (and that's just what happens off the ice).
Hockey is the fastest of all team sports?an emotional, exhilarating, and highly entertaining blend of speed, finesse, intensity, and bone-crunching physical impact. And the NHL's Nashville Predators are, in every respect,...
Safety Stars
Players who fought to make the hard-hitting game of professional hockey safer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
Professional hockey is a fast game, and a dangerous one. Skates slice like razors; a hard-shot puck can take out an eye; and the ice surface is as hard as rock, especially when skulls are slammed against it. Innovations in equipment make the game faster and more exciting -- and have to be countered...