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Every year since 1968, Leaf fans hope that the new season will be the one that breaks the Stanley Cup drought. Sadly, those hopes are usually dashed mid-season. In the biggest hockey market in North America, with such a huge and loyal fan base, how has the team missed it for so long? It's the question that every Leafs fan asks (and has been afraid to have answered). Now updated to include both the disastrous 2009–10 season and the 2010–11 season,...
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In their run to the 2016 Stanley Cup, the Pittsburgh Penguins showed a work ethic that matched the city in which they play. Near the bottom of the standings in December, the Penguins replaced head coach Mike Johnston with Mike Sullivan. Led by superstar Sidney Crosby, veteran Evgeni Malkin, and new addition Phil Kessel, Pittsburgh overcame this initial adversity to finish the regular season with 104 points, third-best in the Eastern Conference. In...
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In 1972, after enduring years of embarrassing defeat at the hands of Soviet "amateurs," Canadian officials convinced their Moscow counterparts to allow a pre-season, eight-game series between the best hockey players from both nations. For Team Canada, this meant a chance to assemble a "dream team" of NHL professionals and show the world that they still owned ice hockey. Cold War takes you to the back rooms of the diplomats and apparatchiks who sanctioned...
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Lightning did strike twice in 2020, as the Tampa Bay Lightning triumphed over the Dallas Stars to seize their second Stanley Cup in franchise history.
Lightning Strikes: The Tampa Bay Lightning's Unforgettable Run to the 2020 Stanley Cup takes Bolts fans through the surreal and remarkable 2019-2020 season, in which the perennial contenders finally claimed the ultimate prize. Whether striving to prove their worth following 2019's shocking early playoff...
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Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Detroit Red Wings documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining and unsparing fashion, this book sparkles with Wings highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and...
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Wearing the C insignia on the uniforma badge of honor reserved for team captainsis professional hockeys highest honor, and this study discusses how many of the NHLs all-time greatest players were captains. This exciting new bookan entertaining and enlightening blend of hockey stories and leadership lessonsreveals the secrets of hockeys greatest captains by asking questions such as What does it take to lead a team to championship? What are the keys...
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Few professional athletes have been as loved and respected as Jean Béliveau, captain of the fabled Montreal Canadiens during the team's glory years in the 1950s and 1960s. His career on ice was followed by an equally successful career in the Canadiens' front office. First published in 1994, this classic biography has been fully updated to reflect the events of the past decade, from his battle with cancer to his frank assessment of the game today,...
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When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could help turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All they had to do then was make history by drafting them, then figure out how to get them out. That's when the Wings turned to Keith Gave, the newsman whose clandestine mission to Helsinki, Finland,...
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From the youngest general manager in NHL history to veteran on-air hockey analyst Gord Stellick has seen it all, and now tells it all. Few have been given the opportunity to be on both sides of the hockey rink, managing the Leafs and the Rangers, and then regaling his legion of TV and radio fans with the colourful insider knowledge he's amassed about blockbuster trades, NHL stars, and the talent that got away. But Gord Stellick has. In an almost forty-year...
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Sharing the sometimes bittersweet, sometimes unexpected, always insightful accounts ofthe lives of some of the NHL's most famous players after retirement and the turns their lives have takenoften just as wild and crazy as their time on the icethis collection of poignant stories details the hockey's greatest players after the last goal has been tended and the final buzzer sounds. Through in-depth one-on-one interviews, the book offers vivid and captivating...
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The 50 Week Hockey Training Manual is a comprehensive training e-book designed to give athletes of all levels the template for strength in sport. Athletic success is contingent on control of variables such as situation/season, training design (sets, reps, rest, tempo), stage of training, and level of athlete. By successively introducing into the training program separate, specific means, each of which has a progressively strong training effect, and...
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In 1967 the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup in a stunning defeat of the mighty Montreal Canadiens. No other Leafs team has been able to do it again. As the years pass, the legend grows. The men who were the Leafs in 1967-a scrappy group of aging players and unsung youngsters-were the kings of the hockey universe. However, within five years of that victory things had changed drastically for many members of the team: two key members of the team,...
94) A Cup Story
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Don't curse the darkness. Light a candle.
Do you believe in curses? Performing actors won't dare to ever utter the word Macbeth.
Emerging star athletes are fright to have their likeness on a cover of Sports Illustrated or a Madden NFL video game.
Chicago's south side fans lived with the Black Sox scandal for eighty-five years while their north-side rivals needed 108 to resolve the Billy Goat curse. The eventual exorcism of the Curse of the Bambino...
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This book commemorates a great Belarusian hockey player, Ruslan Salei, as well as the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players, coaches and Yak-42 crew who perished in an air crash at the Tunoshna Airport. But it's not a requiem book. It is about life. It tells the life story of the best player in history of Belarusian hockey, his rise to prominence with the National Team, his struggles on and off the ice in his pursuit of stardom in North America s National Hockey...
96) The Golden Jet
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A must-have keepsake for Blackhawks fans of all ages, this souvenir provides the opportunity to celebrate the life of the greatest hockey player in Chicago's history. One of the most charismatic and electrifying athletes of his or any era, Bobby Hull thrilled fans with his unique combination of speed, skill, and grace and his electrifying career is highlighted in this biography where he traces his life from his days as a youngster learning to skate...
97) The Devil And Bobby Hull: How Hockey's Original Million-Dollar Man Became the Game's Lost Legend
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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 weapon, and the first hockey player to sign a million-dollar contract. With his body-builder torso, and his 100 mph volleys across a rink, the world of hockey glory...
98) Hockey Goalies
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Updated for 2020. Learn basic hockey goalie skills and techniques and meet some famous hockey goalies.
99) Football
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Learn about the world of football and how science is helping the game. You'll read about helmets, shoulder pads, cleats, statistics, and training, and get a better understanding of how football is improving with science and technology. Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension. Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
100) La LNH
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Learn all about the National Hockey League. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
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