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Ice Storm

The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Vancouver Canucks Team Ever

By: Bruce Dowbiggin

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Ice Storm

The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Vancouver Canucks Team Ever

By: Bruce Dowbiggin

In 2008, the Vancouver Canucks were Team Modern, revolutionizing the NHL under their new GM, former player agent Mike Gillis. Cool, calculating, and unsparing with the media, the onetime number one draft pick of the old Colorado Rockies swept away the tangled psychological past of the Canucks with bold innovation, remodeling Vancouver as a destination city for NHL star players. To do so, he built the Canucks from a non-playoff team in 2008 to the best in hockey from 2010-2012. He modernized the players' diets and psychological approach, he rebuilt the dressing room, and he sought sleep consultants to help with the Canucks' punishing travel schedule. More than that, his winning team lifted Vancouver from eighth overall in NHL revenues to second by 2013. When the team took to the ice for Game 7 of the 2011 Cup Final, it seemed there was nothing the Canucks couldn't overcome with their "Canucktivity" approach. The hockey world was at their feet. But things changed in Game 7. Physically exhausted and bullied by the Bruins, the Canucks succumbed 4-0. To cap the greatest season in team history, Vancouver rioted. Gillis tried a number of aggressive moves to get back to the Final, from switching Luongo for Schneider to trading players, but nothing worked. From there, the dominoes fell: Alain Vigneault was dismissed, John Tortorella hired; Tortorella raged, fans bayed for Gillis' head; and finally, Gillis and Tortorella were both fired. In spring 2014, tried-and-true Canuck hero Trevor Linden was installed as president, with former teammate Jim Benning by his side as GM. No one was quite sure if this was an improvement, but at least the hysterical screaming had stopped. How did it happen? Ice Storm follows the journey that led the Canucks from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the abyss in six short years.

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Greystone Books

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1771641320

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9781771641326

Personal Account

25 Tales About Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal

By: Tony Comper,Bruce Dowbiggin

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Personal Account

25 Tales About Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal

By: Tony Comper,Bruce Dowbiggin

After nearly four decades at Bank of Montreal, former President and CEO Tony Comper shares leadership lessons from his experience at the helm of one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Anthony “Tony” Comper likes to say that he can sum up his remarkable career in Canadian banking in 25 stories. In a business often filled with big personalities and memorable characters, Tony’s motto is Festina Lente — make haste slowly. In Personal Account: 25 Tales about Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal, Comper chronicles how he guided the bank’s software evolution on real-time banking and the introduction of ABMs. He also saw BMO evolve from traditional lender to facilitator in the market, partnering with businesses to create a more vibrant source of capital. That innovation included Tony’s role in integrating women and new Canadians into BMO while fighting anti-Semitism in the community. He was also critical in creating new banking models for the Indigenous community. A first-person analysis of the major transitions in his almost four decades at the bank. A memoir of turbulent, challenging times. An examination of surviving the most severe financial shocks without jeopardizing the nation’s financial stability. Personal Account is equal parts warm memoir, teaching lesson, and a reminder of the value of legacy.

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ECW Press

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1773055739

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9781773055732

Grant Fuhr

The Story of a Hockey Legend

By: Grant Fuhr,Bruce Dowbiggin

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Grant Fuhr

The Story of a Hockey Legend

By: Grant Fuhr,Bruce Dowbiggin

The Hall of Fame story of Grant Fuhr, the first black superstar in the National Hockey League and the last line of defense for the Edmonton Oilers dynasty, told through Fuhr's 10 most important games. Grant Fuhr was the best goalie in the league at a time when hockey was at its most exciting. Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton Oilers were arguably the greatest team in league history, and during the 1980s arguably the most popular team across the United States, even if many had little idea where Edmonton was. They were that good. And so was Fuhr: Gretzky called him the best goaltender in the world. Fuhr broke the colour barrier for NHL goaltenders when he played his first game for the Oilers in 1981, and was an inspiration for later players including future Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla. But in addition to their dynastic run of Stanley Cup championships, the Oilers were also synonymous with the excesses of the decade: Fuhr himself was suspended for substance use, a discredit he had to fight back from--and did, going on to set career records and earning election to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

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Vintage Canada

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0307362825

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9780307362827

Cap in Hand

How Salary Caps are Killing Pro Sports and Why the Free Market Could Save Them

By: Bruce Dowbiggin,Ryan Gauthier

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Cap in Hand

How Salary Caps are Killing Pro Sports and Why the Free Market Could Save Them

By: Bruce Dowbiggin,Ryan Gauthier

Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a fraud … an exhibition masquerading as a contest.” Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of teams in MLB to protect parity, a free market was capable of sustaining many more franchises — hundreds, even — if we would just allow it to sort out the level at which those cities might best compete. Cap in Hand goes a step further, arguing that a free market in sports teams and athletes once existed and could work again if the monopolists of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL would simply relent from salary-restraint schemes and reserve-clause models that result in elite talent being spread as thinly as possible and mediocrity being rewarded via amateur drafts and equalization payments. In fact, the model for this exists and may be the most wildly popular and monetarily successful of all professional sports: European football. Cap In Hand asks: what if the four major North American pro sports move beyond the restrictive covenants of the franchise model? The product sold to fans today is a pale copy of what it might be if the market could guide the best players to the best teams, whose ingenuity and innovation would inspire everyone to do better and put on a better show.

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ECW Press

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1773052381

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Cap in Hand

How Salary Caps are Killing Pro Sports and Why the Free Market Could Save Them

By: Bruce Dowbiggin,Ryan Gauthier

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How Salary Caps are Killing Pro Sports and Why the Free Market Could Save Them

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Inexact Science

The Six Most Compelling Draft Years in NHL History

By: Evan Dowbiggin,Bruce Dowbiggin

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Inexact Science

The Six Most Compelling Draft Years in NHL History

By: Evan Dowbiggin,Bruce Dowbiggin

A fascinating in-depth analysis of six of the NHL’s most interesting drafts From Guy Lafleur to Sidney Crosby to Connor McDavid, the annual draft of hockey’s most talented young prospects has long been considered the best route to Stanley Cup glory. Inexact Science delivers the remarkable facts behind the six most captivating NHL Drafts ever staged and explores the lessons learned from guessing hockey horoscopes. How did it change the business of the sport? And where is the draft headed next? The authors answer intriguing questions like: What if Montreal in 1971 had chosen Marcel Dionne No. 1 overall and not Guy Lafleur? How exactly is it that Wayne Gretzky went undrafted? How did the Red Wings turn their franchise around so dramatically in the 1989 Draft? Evan and Bruce Dowbiggin also delve into the controversies, innovative ideas, and plain old bad judgment that’s taken place on the draft floor. Always informative and entertaining, Inexact Science encapsulates the many compelling, wild, and unique stories in five-plus decades of NHL Draft history.

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ECW Press

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1773056662

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9781773056661

The Fastest Game in the World

Hockey and the Globalization of Sports

By: Bruce Berglund

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The Fastest Game in the World

Hockey and the Globalization of Sports

By: Bruce Berglund

Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, the sport has drawn from different cultures and crossed boundaries––between Canada and the United States, across the Atlantic, and among different regions of Europe. It has been a political flashpoint within countries and internationally. And it has given rise to far-reaching cultural changes and firmly held traditions. The Fastest Game in the World is a global history of a global sport, drawing upon research conducted around the world in a variety of languages. From Canadian prairies to Swiss mountain resorts, Soviet housing blocks to American suburbs, Bruce Berglund takes readers on an international tour, seamlessly weaving in hockey’s local, national, and international trends. Written in a lively style with wide-ranging breadth and attention to telling detail, The Fastest Game in the World will thrill both the lifelong fan and anyone who is curious about how games intertwine with politics, economics, and culture.

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University of California Press

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0520303725

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9780520303720

Anonymous Soldiers

The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947

By: Bruce Hoffman

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Anonymous Soldiers

The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947

By: Bruce Hoffman

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Winner of the Washington Institute Book Prize One of the Best Books of the Year St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kirkus Reviews In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel. One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East.

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Vintage

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0307741613

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You Can Say That Again!

A Fun Approach to Sounding Better When You Open Your Mouth to Speak

By: Bruce Rogers

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You Can Say That Again!

A Fun Approach to Sounding Better When You Open Your Mouth to Speak

By: Bruce Rogers

This is an excellent tool for anyone who wants to gain confidence in his or her speaking abilities.

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Dundurn

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0888822081

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9780888822086

Of Ice and Men

Steve Yzerman, Chris Chelios, Glen Sather, Dominik Hasek : the Craft of Hockey

By: Bruce Dowbiggin

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Of Ice and Men

Steve Yzerman, Chris Chelios, Glen Sather, Dominik Hasek : the Craft of Hockey

By: Bruce Dowbiggin

Rich, insightful, and highly engaging, Bruce Dowbiggin’s much-praised examination of the craft of hockey was hailed by critics as an enduring addition to the literature of sports. What makes the best in the hockey business the best? By analyzing forward Steve Yzerman’s superb talent for leadership, defenseman Chris Chelio’s two-way brilliance, goaltender Dominik Hasek’s unrivalled ability to stop the puck, and hockey executive Glen Sather’s gift for construction, shaping, and inspiring a team, Dowbiggin not only illuminates hockey greatness, he also documents the subtle evolution in how the NHL game is played.

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MacFarlane Walter & Ross

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1551990288

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9781551990286

Grant Fuhr

The Story of a Hockey Legend

By: Grant Fuhr,Bruce Dowbiggin

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The Story of a Hockey Legend

By: Grant Fuhr,Bruce Dowbiggin

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Vintage Canada

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0307362825

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Inexact Science

The Six Most Compelling Draft Years in NHL History

By: Evan Dowbiggin,Bruce Dowbiggin

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The Six Most Compelling Draft Years in NHL History

By: Evan Dowbiggin,Bruce Dowbiggin

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ECW Press

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1773056662

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Best Practices

The Vancouver Canucks Pursuit of Hockey Excellence

By: Bruce Dowbiggin

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Best Practices

The Vancouver Canucks Pursuit of Hockey Excellence

By: Bruce Dowbiggin

Players consider the Vancouver Canucks to be one of the best teams to play for in the NHL. By creating a player-friendly environment, Vancouver GM Mike Gillis had been able to acquire top-tier talent at less than market value. In Best Practices, sportswriter Bruce Dowbiggin explains how owners and management have teamed up to make the Canucks one of the most desirable locations in the NHL, and how that player-first attitude has led to success on the ice. From their new, state-of-the-art dressing room, personal nutritionists, skills experts, sleep specialists, and world-class medical team, Gillis has hired the best team of off-ice personnel in the league. As well, a team-first philosophy, focused on community involvement and mutual respect for everyone on the team, has made the Canucks one of the most welcoming teams in the league. Gillis's focus on the minutiae, the small details that make for happy players, has led to on-ice success and caused other teams to take notice and adopt some of the Canuck's philosophy as their own. With consecutive President Trophy wins, a Stanley Cup final appearance, and some of the league's biggest talent, the Canucks Way has proven to be a philosophy that will continue to bring success to the Canucks for years to come.

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0771029519

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9780771029516

Money Players

How Hockey's Greatest Stars Beat the NHL at It's Own Game

By: Bruce Dowbiggin

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Money Players

How Hockey's Greatest Stars Beat the NHL at It's Own Game

By: Bruce Dowbiggin

The Amazing Rise and Fall of Bob Goodenow and the NHL Players Association. In late February 2005, NHL owners and Bob Goodenow of the NHL Players Association met behind closed doors in what was purported to be a last-ditch effort to end the lockout and save the season. At issue was a salary cap-and who called the shots in the hockey business. As the director of the union, Bob Goodenow used strikes and hardball negotiations to push up player salaries, and while players got rich, the health of the game was ignored. The NHL owners demanded a salary cap, and Goodenow refused. The result was a 103-day lockout that cost a season. The owners got their salary cap, but at what cost to the sport? One thing was clear: the only real loser was the fan. Money Players is a bare-knuckled brawl of a book about how the real game has been player behind closed doors between rich executives and agents. Bruce Dowbiggin's controversial, but eye-opening report takes readers from the locker rooms to the boardrooms. And it's not a pretty picture.

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0889954747

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Personal Account

25 Tales About Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal

By: Tony Comper,Bruce Dowbiggin

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25 Tales About Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal

By: Tony Comper,Bruce Dowbiggin

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You Can Say That Again!

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