| The Final Call: Hockey Stories from a Legend in Stripes
| After thirty years as an official in the National Hockey League, legendary referee Kerry Fraser has decided to hang up his skates and enjoy the game from the other side of the boards. Never shy about offering his opinion or afraid to step in and separate an on-ice fight, Fraser is arguably the most respected referee in the history of the game. Over the course of the 2,165 NHL contests he oversaw, Fraser has shown himself to be an unbiased, courageous, and sometimes controversial judge.In The ...More
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| Field Hockey: Steps to Success - 2nd Edition (Steps to Success Sports Series)
| Enter the game with confidence, knowing you've mastered the essentials. Field Hockey: Steps to Success combines a comprehensive, progressive approach with in-depth instruction, illustrations, and 86 drills. Master coach and field hockey legend Elizabeth Anders details the step-by-step program that will teach you how to develop these skills: -Score more goals by developing better shooting techniques.-Improve ball control and dribbling.-Establish solid passing and receiving skills.-Devel...More
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| The Next Ones: Hockey's Future Stars
| Ever wonder who the next big hockey star is going to be? Hockey Canada's new annual comprehensive guide to the best of the best in the junior hockey world adds some expert insight to the conversation.Not only for hockey fans, but for coaches and scouts alike, this guide includes photos, stats, personal information, players' ambitions, plans, and dreams. Based on junior hockey performance and expected success in the pros, The Next Ones presents the top twenty-five Canadian prospects as dec...More
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| Best of the Decade: Reflections of Hockey's Past Ten Years (Reflections: The NHL Hockey Year in Photographs)
| The first ten years of the 21st century were a fast-moving, event-filled decade — and there was no exception in the NHL. Legendary players, including Patrick Roy, Brendan Shanahan, and Joe Sakic, all hung up their skates, clearing the ice for stunning debuts from astonishingly talented young players like Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, and Patrick Kane. Returning to hockey’s roots, the outdoor rinks at the NHL Winter Classic drew in million of viewers, shattered attendance records, and entertai...More
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| Field Hockey Techniques & Tactics
| In Field Hockey Techniques & Tactics, Olympic gold medalist Claire Mitchell-Taverner presents the skills and offensive and defensive systems that helped the Hockeyroos dominate the world stage for nearly a decade and revolutionize the game of field hockey. Elevate your trapping, receiving, passing, dribbling, and shooting by learning the finer technical points of each attacking skill. Perfect your defensive techniques in anticipating opponents' moves and intercepting passes, making str...More
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| I'd Trade Him Again: On Gretzky, Politics, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Deal
| As one of Canada’s foremost captains of industry, Peter Pocklington is both revered and reviled — depending on whom (and where) you ask. The one thing for sure is that Pocklington has never been dull. Few alive today exceed the influence Peter has brought to the world of commerce, politics, sport, and culture. His story is one of triumph, failure, perseverance in the face of adversity and, in many ways, a primer on how to put free-market capitalism to work for you. It also chronicles one manâ...More
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| Winning Roller Hockey
| A well-illustrated guide with solid instruction which aims to help the player compete and win. This text helps players develop each major skill as well as an understanding of every basic strategy. The 68 illustrated drills are useful practice tools for building a solid overall game.
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| Hockey's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Goals
| You can’t win if you don’t score, and this new collection scores big the most heart-stopping, game-winning, record-breaking goals in the history of the professional and international game. Best-selling authors and hockey masterminds Don Weekes and Kerry Banks reviewed thousands of goals to come up with their top-100 list of the most skillful shots, game-changing moments, and rink-rocking net-bulgers of all time. Relive the game’s most dramatic highlights, including Alexander Ovechkin’s a...More
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| Retired Numbers: A Celebration of NHL Excellence
| In the storied history of the NHL, many players stand out, and a few become synonymous with their numbers. However, there are some whose skates are so hard to fill and whose stars shine so bright that their numbers are retired to the annals of legend. In Retired Numbers, best-selling hockey author Andrew Podnieks documents 116 players whose numbers have been raised to great heights in arenas across the league. From players who made their mark with one team (Paul Coffey with the Edmonton O...More
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| I Am Not Making This Up: My Favourite Hockey Stories
| Bestselling author and Toronto Sun sportswriter Al Strachan is a fixture in the hockey world. For almost forty years, his hockey insight has been read and enjoyed by fans all across North America. With the respect and friendship of players and coaches from every generation, he often has the inside scoop on hockey's breaking stories. Throughout the years, he has witnessed some of the most exciting, most controversial, and most talked about events in hockey history. His breadth of experience and e...More
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| The Hockey Workshop: A Complete Game Guide (Whitaker)
| This is a comprehensive, practical manual for players, teachers, coaches, and officials at every level of the game. Divided into three sections, the book covers "components," which are players and coaches and the abilities required, the "workshop," which provides detailed information and analyses of individual and team skills, and "the support systems," with tips on practice, preparation, and team management. Fully illustrated throughout and written by a world-renowned coach, this is essential ...More
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| Barilko: Without a Trace
| A poor boy from Northern Ontario who labored at skating, Barilko miraculously found himself playing defense on the hockey team of his dreams — the Toronto Maple Leafs. Through five National Hockey League seasons, Barilko emerged as the toast of Toronto, winning four Stanley Cup championships. On April 21, 1951, playing their rivals, the loathed Montreal Canadiens, Bill Barilko scored the overtime goal, winning the Toronto Maple Leafs their seventh Stanley Cup. It was the last game he ever play...More
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| How to Play Hockey: A Step-By-Step Guide (Jarrold Sports)
| This series is designed to supplement the actual play or coaching of dozens of sports and activities. Full color figure drawings and diagrams take the mystery from effective techniques, bringing the beginner to competitive status in a minimum time period.
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| Dominant Dany Heatley (Hockey Canada)
| As the son of professional hockey player Murray Heatley, it was no surprise that Dany Heatley followed in his father’s footsteps. But even he could not have foreseen the level of success and fame he would achieve, from winning the Calder Memorial Trophy for Rookie of the Year to being the youngest player to earn a hat trick while tying the scoring record with four goals. Then at 22, tragedy struck. Traveling at a high speed in his Ferrari with teammate Dan Snyder, he lost control of the car, r...More
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| Field Hockey (Spalding Sports Library)
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| Inside Hockey: Players, Pucks, and Penalty Boxes
| For more than one hundred and fifty years, people around the world have been gravitating to frozen ponds and ice rinks to play the fast-paced sport of hockey. Originally played with tree branches and pieces of cork, hockey has evolved into an exciting international phenomenon. Filled with action-packed, full-color photographs and insights from players, coaches, and sports analysts, Inside Hockey is an informative and entertaining volume on this fast-paced sport. Starting with a review of hock...More
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| Hockey: The Skills of the Game
| This book is part of a series of instructional sports books written by some of the country's leading sports coaches. All the skills and techniques of hockey are tackled in this book which emphasizes the belief that participants at all levels should base their play on the techniques displayed in the international arena and stresses the value of small-sided games in learning these techniques. The author is an experienced coach and former Great Britain International. In the Hockey Association, he h...More
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| Coaching Hockey
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| The Fastest Game: An Anthology of Hockey Writings
| For the ice hockey fan/purist, there is more to hockey than simply the win or loss of a game. The game constitutes an art form of expression, as in the acceleration of Bobby Orr, the grace of Wayne Gretzky, or the power of Gordie Howe. Here, Dick Wimmer captures that expression with a collection of articles from writers such as Studs Terkel, Hugh MacLennan, Roger Kahn and Mordecai Richler.
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| Going for Gold: Pakistan at Hockey (Jubilee Series)
| Going for Gold provides a fascinating account of the ups and downs of hockey and how Pakistan has coped with the changing face of this sport over the last fifty years.
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