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The NHL All-Star Game

Fifty Years of the Great Tradition

By: Andrew Podnieks

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The NHL All-Star Game

Fifty Years of the Great Tradition

By: Andrew Podnieks

The very first book to chronicle the rich history of the NHL's crowning jewel of a game, The NHL All-Star Game is a blockbuster compendium of stories, photographs and statistics published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the All-Star Game. Written by well-known sports writer Andrew Podnieks, The NHL All-Star Game gives a game-by-game description, complete with fascinating anecdotes and little-known lore. From the game's beginning in 1908 as a benefit game for the family of Hod Stuart, a star defenseman for the Montreal Wanderers, who drowned shortly after his team's Stanley Cup win in 1907, to the 1999 game and Wayne Gretzky's inspired--and final--All-Star performance, Podnieks brings every All-Star moment vividly to life. Packed full of photographs and complete with registers, records and all statistics, The NHL All-Star Game is a hockey fan's treasure. "Illuminating...Serious students of the game know already to follow where Podnieks leads...his attention to and reverence for the game compares with Nabokov and his bond with butterflies."--The Globe and Mail

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0006391028

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9780006391029

Hockey Superstitions

From Playoff Beards to Crossed Sticks and Lucky Socks

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Hockey Superstitions

From Playoff Beards to Crossed Sticks and Lucky Socks

By: Andrew Podnieks

One of North America's best-known hockey writers examines the strangest rituals and superstitions within the NHL. Why did Wayne Gretzky start every pre-game warm-up by shooting wide to the right of the net (a rather funny habit, given that he scored more goals than anyone in the game's history)? Why do many hockey players seem to believe performance is tied directly to facial hair? Why does Geoff Sanderson use a different length stick for every period? And why did Petr Klima break his stick after every goal he scored? Hockey Superstitions, by one of Canada's best-known hockey writers, Andrew Podnieks, explores the fascinating and fun world of hockey superstitions: their origins, their quirks, and the mythology around them. Along the way, it gives us an original look into the minds of the players and coaches behind them.

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McClelland & Stewart

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0771071086

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9780771071089

Team Canada 1972

The Official 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Summit Series

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Team Canada 1972

The Official 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Summit Series

By: Andrew Podnieks

It was called the "series of the century" and out of it came the greatest goal ever scored. Incredibly, the Summit Series, featuring Canada and the Soviet Union in a hockey showdown, is now 40 years old, but time has only strengthened and immortalized those eight games that changed the game. No moment has faded, and no series of games since has had the same profound effect on a country, a culture and a sport. Using its best NHL stars, Canada was supposed to win all eight games, but the Soviets won the first, in Montreal, by a whopping 7-3 score, and from then on fans were witness to the greatest matchup ever. It featured the leadership of Phil Esposito and the skill of Yvan Cournoyer, the goaltending of Vladislav Tretiak, and the speed of Valeri Kharlamov. And in the end, it featured the heroics of Paul Henderson, who scored the winning goal in each of the final three games to give Canada the series victory, the final of those goals coming with just 34 seconds remaining in game eight, September 28, 1972. Complete with in-depth interviews of every surviving player and a remarkable cache of colour photographs, Team Canada 1972, is the definitive look at the Summit Series 40 years later, still powerful, still resonating, still remarkable. With every living player contributing to the book with personal memories and thoughts of the series, this official publication provides fans with the most detailed and exciting picture of the series.

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McClelland & Stewart

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0771071213

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9780771071218

Where Countries Come to Play

Celebrating the World of Olympic Hockey and the Triple Gold Club

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Where Countries Come to Play

Celebrating the World of Olympic Hockey and the Triple Gold Club

By: Andrew Podnieks

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 narrative that will offer fans a complete history of Olympic hockey, including amazing stories from both on and off the ice, organizational challenges, bitter battles, player's tales, and spectacular hockey action. The book also contains a prelude to 2014 Sochi and a detailed appendix of Olympic hockey stats. As well, Where Countries Come to Play celebrates the IIHF's Triple Gold Club, whose members have each won an Olympic Gold Medal, a Stanley Cup, and a World Championship. For the first time in book form, the elite club's twenty-five members are profiled and the story of their accomplishments told. The book will be publsihed in advance of the Sochi Winter Games and is the must-have hockey book for all fans of the game and for anyone that has ever cheered for their nation as they skated out onto the ice.

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McClelland & Stewart

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0771071140

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9780771071140

Fast Ice

Superstars of the New NHL

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Fast Ice

Superstars of the New NHL

By: Andrew Podnieks

The speed and skill of a new hockey generation Ñ in photos and stories From the incredible debut of Auston Matthews to the unparalleled speed of Connor McDavid, the NHL is experiencing a rebirth that is based on speed and skill, not size, fighting, or intimidation. Fast Ice: Superstars of the New NHL features profiles of more than 50 of todayÕs greatest stars. Included are veterans like Sidney Crosby and arch-rival Alexander Ovechkin, but the heart of the book is the youth movement that has given fans new optimism for an exciting future. Written by bestselling author Andrew Podnieks and featuring dozens of full-colour photographs, this is sure to be a compelling addition to the hockey loverÕs library.

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ECW Press

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1773051199

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9781773051192

Hockey

A Global History

By: Stephen Hardy,Andrew C. Holman

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Hockey

A Global History

By: Stephen Hardy,Andrew C. Holman

Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport. Here is the story of on-ice stars and organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey's "birthing" in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport's emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace 'em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia. Sweeping in scope and vivid with detail, Hockey: A Global History is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world--and vice versa.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050940

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9780252050947

The Zero Hour

Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition

By: Andrew Horton,Michael Brashinsky

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The Zero Hour

Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition

By: Andrew Horton,Michael Brashinsky

Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most interesting in the world, aesthetically as well as politically. How have Soviet filmmakers responded to the challenges of glasnost? To answer this question, the American film scholar Andrew Horton and the Soviet critic Michael Brashinsky offer the first book-length study of the rapid changes in Soviet cinema that have been taking place since 1985. What emerges from their collaborative dialogue is not only a valuable work of film criticism but also a fascinating study of contemporary Soviet culture in general. Horton and Brashinsky examine a wide variety of films from BOMZH (initials standing for homeless drifter) through Taxi Blues and the glasnost blockbuster Little Vera to the Latvian documentary Is It Easy to Be Young? and the "new wave" productions of the "Wild Kazakh boys." The authors argue that the medium that once served the Party became a major catalyst for the deconstruction of socialism, especially through documentary filmmaking. Special attention is paid to how filmmakers from 1985 through 1990 represent the newly "discovered" past of the pre-glasnost era and how they depict troubled youth and conflicts over the role of women in society. The book also emphasizes the evolving uses of comedy and satire and the incorporation of "genre film" techniques into a new popular cinema. An intriguing discussion of films of Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Kazakhstan ends the work.

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Princeton University Press

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0691227861

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9780691227863

WINS

Canadian Hockey Summareliquary

By: Andrew Tidman

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WINS

Canadian Hockey Summareliquary

By: Andrew Tidman

A – “history” – of – Canadian hockey -- in the – “original” – information format – of – the newspaper game summary! Hockey “game summaries” have been a feature of North American newspaper sports pages almost since the beginning of organized hockey – and the basic newspaper format is still the format used most often by statisticians and historians of the game and by online media today This is a collection of historically significant Canadian hockey “game summaries” At the reader's fingertips – faster than the Internet – and -- perhaps not available on the Internet – the Canadian Hockey Games in which Canada or a team based in Canada – won it all! – including: Stanley Cups / Olympic Gold / World Championships / International Tournaments! The first – and – only – collection of Canadian hockey game summaries – ever published! Not available on the Internet – some of this information has recently been posted online – but most of this data is either not available or very difficult to find The data has been vetted to perfection – this is the authoritative statement! High information content – for the hockey fan – with limited text SUMMARELIQUARY PORTMANTEAU: SUMMARY An Abridgement Of A Topic And/Or An Event + RELIQUARY A Container For – Relics RELICS An Object Of Significance From The Past NEOLOGISM: A Collection Of – Significant -- Summaries

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FriesenPress

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1525508504

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9781525508509

Golf Now!

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Golf Now!

By: Andrew Podnieks

A book for all golf fans: well-illustrated short profiles of 70 of the greatest players from both the PGA and LPGA Organized into six categories it includes behind-the-scenes detail and current statistics

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Firefly Books

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155407259X

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Team Canada 1972

The Official 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Summit Series

By: Andrew Podnieks

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The Official 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Summit Series

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Sid vs. Ovi

Crosby and Ovechkin as Natural Born Rivals

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Sid vs. Ovi

Crosby and Ovechkin as Natural Born Rivals

By: Andrew Podnieks

Even before Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin began their NHL careers in 2005, the two players were rivals. They first met at the World U20 (Junior) Championship, playing for the gold medal, and ever since they have been opponents in the NHL and international arenas. No two star players could be so different. Crosby is the consummate captain and team player, the responsible face of the NHL. Ovechkin is the loose cannon on ice and off, capable of a great play or a cocky comment. Sid vs. Ovi traces this intense rivalry game by game, year by year, from 2005 to 2011 and beyond. Their biographies are given consideration alongside their in-game performance and career development to present a clear picture of their lives, their careers, their league, and their countries. Hockey fans can well be divided into those who prefer one or the other of this pair of scintillating talents. But one thing is certain – the presence of one inspires the other to greater heights.

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McClelland & Stewart

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0771071183

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9780771071188

Attention Equals Life

The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture

By: Andrew Epstein

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Attention Equals Life

The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture

By: Andrew Epstein

Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history, and critical theory, Andrew Epstein traces the modern history of this preoccupation and considers why it is so much with us today. Attention Equals Life argues that a potent hunger for everyday life explodes in the post-1945 period as a reaction to the rapid, unsettling transformations of this epoch, which have resulted in a culture of perilous distraction. Epstein demonstrates that poetry is an important, and perhaps unlikely, cultural form that has mounted a response, and even a mode of resistance, to a culture suffering from an acute crisis of attention. In this timely and engaging study, Epstein examines why a compulsion to represent the everyday becomes predominant in the decades after modernism and why it has so often sparked genre-bending formal experimentation. With chapters devoted to illuminating readings of a diverse group of writers--including poets associated with influential movements like the New York School, language poetry, and conceptual writing--the book considers the variety of forms contemporary poetry of everyday life has taken, and analyzes how gender, race, and political forces all profoundly inflect the experience and the representation of the quotidian. By exploring the rise of experimental realism as a poetic mode and the turn to rule-governed "everyday-life projects," Attention Equals Life offers a new way of understanding a vital strain at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It not only charts the evolution of a significant concept in cultural theory and poetry, but also reminds readers that the quest to pay attention to the everyday within today's frenetic world of and social media is an urgent and unending task.

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Oxford University Press

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0190631724

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9780190631727

The Consolations of Mortality

Making Sense of Death

By: Andrew Stark

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The Consolations of Mortality

Making Sense of Death

By: Andrew Stark

Interlude: Mortality versus Immortality: Why Not the Right to Choose? -- PART 4 LIFE INTIMATES DEATH -- thirteen: The Big Sleep -- fourteen: Stardust and Moonshine -- fifteen: Every Time I Say Goodbye, I Die a Little -- Conclusion: My Last Espresso -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

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Yale University Press

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0300219253

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9780300219258

Exhausted Ecologies

Modernism and Environmental Recovery

By: Andrew Kalaidjian

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Exhausted Ecologies

Modernism and Environmental Recovery

By: Andrew Kalaidjian

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108477917

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Hockey Facts and Stats 2008-2009

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Hockey Facts and Stats 2008-2009

By: Andrew Podnieks

Collins Gem Hockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey book in Canada in 2007, outselling even the NHL Official Guide and Record Book. Now updated for the 2008-09 season, this pocket-sized marvel returns with new stats and even more facts than before. It covers all of the 2007-08 NHL results and international hockey information. It also includes a special feature on the World Junior Championships--just in time for the 2009 tournament in Ottawa as Team Canada attempts to win an astounding fifth consecutive championship. The ultimate reference for hockey pools and trivia leagues, and an ideal stocking stuffer for fans of all ages, Collins Gem Hockey Facts & Stats is ready for another winning year. Collins Gem Hockey Facts & Stats includes * an A-to-Z directory of players, with comprehensive stats and biographical information * team histories, NHL standings and Stanley Cup finals results since 1917 * a complete list of players and personalities enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame * a summary of the 2007-08 NHL season, including shootout statistics and scoring leaders * results and standings for World, World Junior and Olympic Championships Features an expanded section on the international ice hockey federation World junior hockey championships to be held in Ottawa in 2009.

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1554683025

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Sid vs. Ovi

Crosby and Ovechkin as Natural Born Rivals

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Crosby and Ovechkin as Natural Born Rivals

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0771071183

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Golf’s Greatest Collapses

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Golf’s Greatest Collapses

By: Andrew Podnieks

Golf's Greatest Collapses recounts the agony-and sometimes humour-of the worst moments of a golfer's career, the moment when he can't do anything right. Golfers collapses are borne of the weight of the moment, the gaze of thousands of fans, the click of photographers' cameras, the underlying awareness that millions of people around the world are watching. Some golfers never recover from a collapse; others use it to learn, and when the situation recurs, they are wiser and better able to handle the pressure of the moment. Collapses can be good in the long run, or they can be forever devastating.

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Arcturus Publishing

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1784281042

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9781784281045

Golf Now!

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Golf Now!

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Firefly Books

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155407259X

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Fast Ice

Superstars of the New NHL

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Superstars of the New NHL

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1773051199

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Hockey Facts & Stats 2012-13

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Hockey Facts & Stats 2012-13

By: Andrew Podnieks

Hockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey statistics annual in Canada for the sixth year in a row in 2011. With its bestselling two-colour look and more generous trim size, it’s poised to be #1 again in 2012. As always, Hockey Facts & Stats will be updated with all of the latest stats, but this year it includes even more interesting facts, from top-ten lists (like women who should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame and the game’s ten best goalies) to profiles detailing the journeys of 2012’s MVP, Rookie of the Year and Stanley Cup champs. It also includes team histories, the complete 2011–12 NHL season in review, international standings and more. The ultimate reference for hockey pools and trivia leagues, and an ideal stocking stuffer for fans of every age, Hockey Facts & Stats is set for another winning year. This year’s bigger and better-than-ever Hockey Facts & Stats includes: fully updated international results and standings an A-to-Z directory of NHL players with comprehensive stats and biographical information team histories, NHL standings and Stanley Cup finals results since 1917 a complete list of players and personalities enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame a summary of the 2011–12 NHL season, including shootout statistics and scoring leaders.

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653

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Harper Collins

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1443417793

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9781443417792

The Greatest, Weirdest, Most Amazing NHL Debuts of All Time

By: Andrew Podnieks

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The Greatest, Weirdest, Most Amazing NHL Debuts of All Time

By: Andrew Podnieks

Hit the ice in the NHL for the first time with over 300 hockey stars From Hall of Famers to lesser-known players, every one of the more than 7,700 NHLers skated in a first game. Many of these debuts are noteworthy because of a record that is plain amazing (Al Hill’s five points), a record most dubious (David Koci’s 42 penalty minutes), or an achievement never likely to be replicated (Larry Hillman gets his name on the Stanley Cup after just one shift). Prolific sports writer Andrew Podnieks’s comprehensive new book features more than 300 spectacular debuts, from 1917 to 2019, and hones in on great achievements and amazing exploits culled from each player’s first night of NHL stardom.

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ECW Press

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1773054341

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9781773054346

Hockey Facts & Stats 2011-2012

2011–2012

By: Andrew Podnieks

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Hockey Facts & Stats 2011-2012

2011–2012

By: Andrew Podnieks

Hockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey statistics book in Canada for the fifth year in a row in 2010. Now with a completely new look, two-colour interior and a more generous trim size, it’s destined to be #1 again in 2011. As always, Hockey Facts & Stats will be updated with all of the latest stats, but this year it will include even more interesting facts, from controversial top-ten lists to profiles detailing the journeys of 2011’s M.V.P., Rookie of the Year and Stanley Cup champs. It will also include team histories, the complete 2010–11 NHL season in review, international standings and more. The ultimate reference for hockey pools and trivia leagues, and an ideal stocking stuffer for fans of every age, Hockey Facts & Stats is set for another winning year. This year’s bigger and better than ever Hockey Facts & Stats includes Fully updated international results and standings, including a preview of the 2012 World Junior Championship in Calgary and Edmonton An A–Z directory of NHL players with comprehensive stats and biographical information Team histories, NHL standings and Stanley Cup finals results since 1917 A complete list of players and personalities enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame A summary of the 2010–11 NHL season, including shootout statistics and scoring leaders

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Harper Collins

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1443408654

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9781443408653

The Concise Encyclopedia of Hockey

By: Michael R. Carroll,Andrew Podnieks,Michael Harling

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The Concise Encyclopedia of Hockey

By: Michael R. Carroll,Andrew Podnieks,Michael Harling

From the Allan Cup to Zamboni, Sid Abel to Steve Yzerman, attack zone to wrist shot, this A-Z treasure trove covers everything on and off the ice in the world's most thrilling, exhilarating game. Want to know instantly what ignited the notorious Richard Riot in the mid-1950s? How the Russians came to dominate international hockey so fast? Who the first black NHLer was and why the league was so slow to integrate? Or, maybe you're fascinated by when and where the first hockey game took place, what the five-hole is, and how to forecheck. You'll easily find the answers here, along with incisive biographies of superstars past and present; the gripping story of women's hockey; and entries on diverse subjects including fighting, free agentry, The Hall of Fame, the NHL draft, and game rules. Appendices list major NHL, minor-league, college, junior, and international award and trophy winners, and numerous photos throughout complement the definitive text.

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