Hockey Puck
How it’s made…HOCKEY PUCKS!
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NHL Two Piece Rocks Glass Set – Primary Logo $24.99 You and your friends can gulp down a drink during the big game with this officially licensed Great American New Jersey Devils 2-piece rocks glass set. Each 14-oz glass is adorned with a fine pewter team-colored medallion on the front…. |
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Hockey Puck Ring Cake Cupcake Topper (12 Pack) $0.90 A quality plastic cupcake topper pick in the shape of a hockey puck. There are 12 items per package. Sold by the individual package…. |
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HOCKEY STICK & PUCK; STICK, Sports Candy Mold Chocolate $1.75 … |
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Johnny Hanson Presents: Puck Rock, Vol. 1 $10.98 … |
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Dallas Stars $9.98 … |
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ROLL A PUCK Designed to glide smoothly over just about any flat surface, this sturdy, all-purpose hockey puck can be used in informal pick-up games in the backyard or on the street, as well as in more organized competition in the roller hockey rink. Equipped with three abrasion-resistant rolling balls that reduce friction as it moves, the Roll-a-Puck is a good choice for games played on rougher surfaces … |
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The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck Pierre and Catou Brunet, two young orphans from Chicoutimi, QUebec are faithful fans of the Montreal Canadiens Hockey Bluc. One day, Pierre accidnetally overhears a conversation revealing a plot to smuggle diamonds into the United States, by hiding them inside a hockey puck and slipping it into the Canadiens’ equipment. Peirre tries desperately to convince everyone that what he has heard is true, … |
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Buy This Tape You Hockey Puck! [VHS] $14.98 Insult comedian Don Rickles performs at a Las Vegas nightclub lounge. There are numerous actors and celebrities in the audience, none of whom are spared Rickles’ barbs and insults. Guests include: Don Adams, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Michael Caine, Jose Ferrer, Jack Klugman, Elliot Gould and more!… |
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In Line Hockey Super Skills Series: Passing and Puck Handling $10.14 Hockey training… |
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Sylvania 72422 Battery-Operated LED Under-Cabinet Light with Motion-Sensor Function, 3 Pack, Black $23.95 The over-achieving under cabinet light! These are the next best thing (and in some cases better) than fully wired under cabinet lighting…. |
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1930 in Ice Hockey: 1929-30 Boston Bruins Season, 1930-31 Philadelphia Quakers Season, 1929-30 Montreal Canadiens Season $23.84 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1929-30 Boston Bruins Season, 1930-31 Philadelphia Quakers Season, 1929-30 Montreal Canadiens Season, 1929-30 Ottawa Senators Season, 1930-31 Montreal Canadiens Season, 1930-31 Ottawa Senators Season, 1930-31 New York Rangers Season, 1929-30 Montreal Maroons Season, 1930-31 Montreal Maroons Season, 1930-31 Boston Bruins Season, 1930-31 Toronto Maple Leafs Season, 1929-30 New York Rangers Season, 1929-30 Pittsburgh Pirates Season, 1930-31 New York Americans Season, 1929-30 New York Americans Season, 1930-31 Detroit Falcons Season, 1929-30 Detroit Cougars Season, 1929-30 Toronto Maple Leafs Season, 1930-31 Chicago Black Hawks Season, 1929-30 Chicago Black Hawks Season, 1930-31 Nhl Season, 1929-30 Nhl Season, 1930 Stanley Cup Finals, 1930 World Ice Hockey Championships. Excerpt: 1929 30 Boston Bruins The 1929 30 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins’ sixth season in the NHL . In defending its American Division title for the second straight season, the Bruins took advantage of new rules and its powerhouse lineup to record the best single season winning percentage in NHL history – a record which still stands. However, the club failed to defend its Stanley Cup title, losing in the finals to the Montreal Canadiens . Regular season 1929 30 NHL season To combat low scoring – the previous season had the fewest goals per game recorded before or thereafter – a major rule change was implemented. Players were now allowed forward passing in the offensive zone , instead of only in the defensive and neutral zones. This led to abuse: players sat in front of the opposing net waiting for a pass, and goals scored nearly tripled league-wide. The rule was changed again mid-season in December 1929, and players were no longer allowed to enter the offensive zone before the puck, thus giving |
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1997-98 NHL Season $44.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997-98 NHL season was the 81st regular season of the National Hockey League. Twenty-six teams each played 82 games. The Stanley Cup winners were the Detroit Red Wings, who swept the Washington Capitals in four games. This was the first season for the Carolina Hurricanes, who were previously known as the Hartford Whalers. The Hurricanes played their home games at the Greensboro Coliseum. They would remain in the Northeast Division. This was the first season for Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff, who as of the 2009-10 season is the longest-tenured NHL coach. The controversial “FoxTrax” puck system was last used this season as well. In August 1998, the NHL signed a five-year, $600 million rights agreement with ABC Sports/ESPN. FOX elected not to use the system in the subsequent “lame duck” season. |
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2 In 1 Hockey Tabletop Shoot Activate Toy for Kids $12.16 Mini tabletop shoot games toy just like the original table top version. Work flippers to move the puck down the rink to shoot and block goals. A cute choice for babies to develop eye-hand coordination. |
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As the Puck Turns: A Personal Journey Through the World of Hockey $29.95 The Conacher name is well known across the country asthe first family of hockey. Continuing in the tradition,Brian Conacher brings 55 years of experience in the sportto life in As the Puck Turns . He is the son of legend LionelConacher, Canada’s Athlete of the First Half-Century (1900-1950), as well as the sixth family member to have played inthe NHL. Playing in minor and major leagues, on Canada’sOlympic and National teams, and then going on to coachand manage teams at the major professional level like theEdmonton Oilers, Brian knows and understands the gameinside and out. In his years of hockey, Brian has seen the realities of theworld of sport at every level and from many angles. From theearly stages of his career, Brian offers up childhood memoriesabout stars like Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard and Gordie Howe,playing at Maple Leaf Gardens and managing the buildingin later years. He shares his insights on the influence of theNHL, on the sport, and what it is like to have been on thelast Leafs team to win the Stanley Cup. As the Puck Turns is a fascinating personal journey throughthe hockey arena and what an iconic figure of the sport seesfor the future of his beloved game. |
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Columbus Blue Jackets Coaches: Clint Malarchuk, Ken Hitchcock, List of Columbus Blue Jackets Head Coaches, Dean Blais, Doug Maclean, Gary Agnew $9.8 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Clint Malarchuk (born May 1, 1961 in Grande Prairie, Alberta), is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1981 and 1992, and the current goaltending coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Aside from his career, he is known for sustaining a life-threatening injury during a game when another player’s skate blade slashed his interior carotid artery. He played for the Portland Winter Hawks, Quebec Nordiques, Washington Capitals and Buffalo Sabres in the course of his career. Malarchuk compiled a career record of 141 wins, 130 losses, 45 ties, 12 shutouts, and an .885 save percentage. The infamous moment that Malarchuk is perhaps most known for occurred during a game on March 22, 1989, between the visiting St. Louis Blues and Malarchuk’s Buffalo Sabres. When Steve Tuttle of the Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Sabres became entangled while chasing the puck and crashed into Malarchuk’s goal, Tuttle’s skate caught Malarchuk on the neck, severing his interior carotid artery. With pools of blood collecting on the ice, Malarchuk left the ice on his own feet with the assistance of his team’s athletic trainer, Jim Pizzutelli. Many spectators were physically sickened by the sight. Local television cameras covering the game cut away from the sight of Malarchuk bleeding after realizing what had happened. Malarchuk, meanwhile, believed he was going to die. “All I wanted to do was get off the ice”, said Malarchuk. “My mother was watching the game on TV, and I didn’t want her to see me die.” Aware that his mother had been watching the game on TV, he had an equipment manager call and tell her he loved her. Then he asked for a priest. Malarchuk’s life was saved by Pizzutelli, a former army medic who had… More: |
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Complete Conditioning for Hockey $13.97 Increase strength and improve quickness and agility with Complete Conditioning for Hockey. This book and DVD features a comprehensive training approach that will build players’ physical abilities as well as the hockey-specific skills required for skating, puck handling, passing, shooting, and body checking to achieve your performance goals. |
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Getting It Right the First Time: How Innovative Companies Anticipate Demand $37 There is no doubt that the pace of business has accelerated – products go from concept to release faster than ever, business partnerships and alliances are established (and dissolved) more quickly, competitors react more swiftly to any tilt in the playing field. Whether your business is microprocessors or airplane manufacturing, it will live or die by the degree to which you can anticipate demand for your products and services. In Getting It Right the First Time, John Katsaros and Peter Christy argue that the most successful businesses will be those that accurately predict market conditions – especially the market changes that will occur within the crucial 18-to-36-month innovation window. Or, to paraphrase hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky: skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it is.Showcasing dozens of colorful examples of lucrative successes and missed opportunities (from high-tech to financial services to medical devices), the authors present a detailed plan for how you and your company can learn to: identify your top customers in advance of entering the market, successfully position your company and its products to those customers, and catch emerging trends before your competitors do. Eschewing traditional market research techniques – such as focus groups, polls, and surveys – Katsaros and Christy demonstrate how expert interviews with potential early adopters can help identify your killer app – the function that customers most value – and avoid costly trial-and-error. In a viciously competitive world where your company may have only one chance to score big, Getting It Right the First Time provides essential guidance for entrepreneurs, marketers, product developers, and business strategists, and offers new insight into the dynamics of innovation. |
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Guyaholic $16.99 "Mackler’s unsentimental feel for how kids think and talk, and how they go about entering the grown-up world, makes V’s journey engrossing."— The New York Times Book ReviewEver since V’s mom dumped her with her grandparents, she’s bounced from guy to guy. That is, until a fateful hockey puck lands her in the lap of Sam Almond, who is different from the start. But V makes an irreversible mistake at her graduation party and risks losing Sam forever, spurring her on a crosscountry road trip to visit her mom in hopes of putting two thousand miles between herself, Sam, and the wreckage of that night. With humor and compassion, Carolyn Mackler takes readers on an unforgettable ride of missed exits, misadventures, and the kind of epiphanies that come only when you’re on a route you’ve never taken before. |
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Guyaholic $7.99 "Mackler’s unsentimental feel for how kids think and talk, and how they go about entering the grown-up world, makes V’s journey engrossing."— The New York Times Book ReviewEver since V’s mom dumped her with her grandparents, she’s bounced from guy to guy. That is, until a fateful hockey puck lands her in the lap of Sam Almond, who is different from the start. But V makes an irreversible mistake at her graduation party and risks losing Sam forever, spurring her on a crosscountry road trip to visit her mom in hopes of putting two thousand miles between herself, Sam, and the wreckage of that night. With humor and compassion, Carolyn Mackler takes readers on an unforgettable ride of missed exits, misadventures, and the kind of epiphanies that come only when you’re on a route you’ve never taken before. |
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Guyaholic $7.99 "Mackler’s unsentimental feel for how kids think and talk, and how they go about entering the grown-up world, makes V’s journey engrossing."— The New York Times Book ReviewEver since V’s mom dumped her with her grandparents, she’s bounced from guy to guy. That is, until a fateful hockey puck lands her in the lap of Sam Almond, who is different from the start. But V makes an irreversible mistake at her graduation party and risks losing Sam forever, spurring her on a crosscountry road trip to visit her mom in hopes of putting two thousand miles between herself, Sam, and the wreckage of that night. With humor and compassion, Carolyn Mackler takes readers on an unforgettable ride of missed exits, misadventures, and the kind of epiphanies that come only when you’re on a route you’ve never taken before. |
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Hc Lugano $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Hockey Club Lugano was founded in the course of the 1940/1941 season when, on the small lake of Muzzano, the first games were played against the “cousins” of Ambrì and against the improvised teams of Muzzano, Massagno and Paradiso. But the club’s actual setting-up takes place on 11 February 1941, during a meeting in the small lounge of the Apollo restaurant. Among the founding partners there are Antonio Caslani, the Arrigo brothers, Ivo Badaracco, Bruno Soldini, Dino Bernardoni, Ivo Molina, Renato Crivelli, Guido Keller, Tullio Visani, Pepi Paulon, Livio Balmelli, Renato Paganetti, Kurt Tritten, Ezio Bernasconi, Bobo Trachsel and Alfonso Weber. The last-named is elected president, also because, being a player in the Football Club Lugano, he can guarantee the jerseys for the team. Seven years after its foundation, the team abandons the small lake of Muzzano and goes to the Loreto quarter. This change is certainly beneficial and is a good opportunity to make the hockey game gradually known in the neighbourhood. In Loreto, the first real games of puck on ice are played, with the appearance of those who will become world champions: the Canadians of Mercury. The game of hockey starts getting a footing; however, the civic authorities keep considering Lugano as, basically, a football city. All the efforts of the president-of-presidents Luigi Bellasi come to nothing. In fact, the lack of political support causes the club’s eviction from Loreto, too. In 1955, after loads of ups and downs, the Lugano club plays a few games on what functioned as tennis courts in summer, i.e. the tennis courts of the Münger bakery in Paradiso. This was possible thanks to two great promoters of the black-and-white family: Cuccio Viglezio and Guido Keller. Still in t… More: |
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Henrik Lundqvist $60.81 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Henrik Lundqvist (born March 2, 1982 in Åre, Sweden) is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was nominated for the Vezina Trophy in his first three seasons in the NHL, finishing third all three times, and is the only goaltender in NHL history to record 30 wins in each of his first five seasons. His dominating play during his rookie season resulted in the New York media and Rangers fans giving him the nickname “King Henrik”. During the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, he led the Sweden national men’s ice hockey team to their second Olympic Gold Medal. Before joining the Rangers, Lundqvist played for Frölunda HC in the Swedish Elitserien. During his years in Sweden, he developed into the league’s finest goaltender, winning the Honken Trophy three consecutive seasons; 2003, 2004 and 2005. In 2005 he also won two of the most prestigious awards in Swedish ice hockey, the Golden Puck and the Golden Helmet. |
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Hockey Drills for Passing & Receiving $0.25 In hockey, the team that has mastered skillful puck movement usually comes out on top. Whether you're attacking the goal or maneuvering out of a compromising situation near the opponent's goal, sharp passing and receiving skills are vital weapons that can consistently carry your team to victory. Hockey Drills for Passing & Receiving provides all the expert instruction you need to get your team passing and receiving the puck like a well-oiled machine.The book includes 75 drills, many of which can be applied to both in-line and ice hockey. Backed by the sport's premier provider of coach and player instruction, Huron Hockey, Hockey Drills for Passing & Receiving teaches how to develop individual skills and use them within a team concept. In addition to improving puck movement in the offensive zone, the drills also focus on the all-important transition game, where much of the action takes place during a match. Expert instructors George Gwozdecky and Vern Stenlund provide the key teaching points and practice activities to hone players' abilities to move and keep possession of the puck. Drills within each chapter start basic then increase in difficulty to provide a wide range of challenges and learning situations. Each drill is accompanied by special coaching tips to correct common errors and maximize players' performance.Any player has the potential to master passing and receiving the puck. With Hockey Drills for Passing & Receiving, you will boast better puck movement than the rest and dominate on the ice. |
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Hockey Heroes: Paul Kariya $7.95 Wherever Paul Kariya has played he has astonished his competitors and teammates with his talent, especially when it comes to passing the puck and reacting to the fast pace of a hockey game. For ages 8-12. |
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Hockey IQ – Skate Fast… Think Faster! Inspirational Quotes for Peak Performance and Breakthrough Success $4.99 Terry Nicholson,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Puck Professor Publishing |
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Hockey Plays and Strategies $12.41 Authors Ryan Walter and Mike Johnston draw on their NHL coaching experience to pack Hockey Plays and Strategies full of offensive, defensive, and special play systems proven to succeed in the fast-paced and agile style of hockey played today. Don’t get caught chasing the puck. Rely on Hockey Plays and Strategies to put you in line for the win! |
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Hockey Stick And Puck $20 Perfect for the Hockey fan! Set includes a chocolate Hockey Stick and Puck. |
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How Hockey Works $12.42 Author Keltie Thomas and illustrator Greg Hall team up to look at hockey in a new way: from the perspective of science. Their book explores the all-important science of explosive moves (the slapshot) and maximizing a player’s chance of scoring; the science of speedy, powerful skating; the puck, stick, mask, and other equipment; the properties of ice and how skating surfaces are maintained; and the science of fitness and healing injuries. How Hockey Works includes personal stories from the inspirational (the stunning careers of Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky) to the hilarious (the puck’s origins as an India rubber ball reshaped by a frustrated rink owner). Informative sidebars, a “Rules and Regs” section, and a glossary help make any reader an expert on the game. From casual to obsessed every hockey fan can find something in How Hockey Works. |
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How Hockey Works $5.37 Author Keltie Thomas and illustrator Greg Hall team up to look at hockey in a new way: from the perspective of science. Their book explores the all-important science of explosive moves (the slapshot) and maximizing a player’s chance of scoring; the science of speedy, powerful skating; the puck, stick, mask, and other equipment; the properties of ice and how skating surfaces are maintained; and the science of fitness and healing injuries. How Hockey Works includes personal stories from the inspirational (the stunning careers of Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky) to the hilarious (the puck’s origins as an India rubber ball reshaped by a frustrated rink owner). Informative sidebars, a “Rules and Regs” section, and a glossary help make any reader an expert on the game. From casual to obsessed every hockey fan can find something in How Hockey Works. |
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Ice Hockey Statistics $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Penalty, Tie, Goal, Plus-Minus, Shot on Goal, Point, Assist, Goals Against Average, Shot Quality, List of Top Goal Scorers in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, Save Percentage. Excerpt: In ice hockey , an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal , meaning that they were “assisting” in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal. The assists will be awarded in the order of play, with the last player to pass the puck to the goal scorer getting the primary assist and the player who passed it to the primary assister getting the secondary assist. If a player scores off of a rebound given up by a goaltender , assists are still awarded, as long as there is no re-possession by that goaltender, meaning he or she did not have complete control of the puck.If a player passes the puck to another player who then completes a give-and-go with a different player for a goal, the player who made the pass that set up the goal gets a primary assist, while the player who passed to the eventual goal scorer before the give-and-go took place gets the secondary assist.If a team has possession and then loses possession to a player who then scores, there are no assists on the goal and therefore the goal is counted as “unassisted”.Players who gain an assist will get one point added to their player statistics. Players’ assist totals and goal totals make up their point totals.See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Goals against average (GAA ) is a statistic used in ice hockey , water polo , lacrosse , and soccer that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender . It is calculated by |
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Inside Hockey!: The Legends, Facts, and Feats that Made the Game $2.74 Keltie Thomas introduces young readers to the wild side of professional hockey, past and present, in this entertaining and informative book. Illustrated with photographs and humorous drawings, Inside Hockey! recounts the facts, adventures, and rare anecdotes that continue to make hockey one of North America’s most popular sports. It’s all here — the stories about the superstars (male and female), the rules that changed the game, and the dazzling science behind the sport. Thomas profiles such unforgettable characters as the player who would rather fight than score, a goalie who sewed an elastic mesh net between his legs to catch the puck, and the guy who talked to the goalposts like they were old friends. Special categories include Legends on Ice, Strange but True, and Science at Play. This is the perfect trivia contest book, too, with the stories behind the greatest goal scorers, crazy goalies, practical jokers and hijinks, superstitions, the most ferocious fights, players overcoming obstacles, and the enduring obsession with that Cup called Stanley. |
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Montreal Voyageurs: Peter Mahovlich, Guy Charron, Jude Drouin, Marc Tardif, Pierre Bouchard, Phil Myre, Dennis Hextall, Lyle Carter, Bob Berry $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Montreal Voyageurs Players, Peter Mahovlich, Guy Charron, Jude Drouin, Marc Tardif, Pierre Bouchard, Phil Myre, Dennis Hextall, Lyle Carter, Bob Berry, Bobby Sheehan, Ron Busniuk, Robin Burns, Mike Hyndman, Larry Mickey, Ray Martyniuk, Jean Gauthier, Hugh Harris, Bart Crashley, Terry Clancy, Alain Caron, Kevin Ahearn. Excerpt: Alain Luc “Boom Boom” Caron (April 27, 1938 – December 18, 1986) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in various leagues from 1956 to 1976. Born in Dolbeau , Quebec , he played in the NHL for 60 games while playing for the Oakland Seals and Montreal Canadiens .References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Bart Crashley (born June 15, 1946 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played 148 games in the National Hockey League and 140 games in the World Hockey Association . He played for the Detroit Red Wings , Los Angeles Sharks , Kansas City Scouts , and Los Angeles Kings . Wore contact lenses when he played. A promising rushing defenceman in his rookie year of 1967 68 with Detroit where he wore jersey #15 and was paired with Gary Bergman. His style of play was not encouraged by coach Sid Abel who reportedly instructed Crashley to not carry the puck past his own blueline. Subsequently traded to Montreal where he played in their farm system. Drafted by the New York Islanders in 1972 expansion draft, but opted to join Los Angeles Sharks of the WHA. Joined the Kanses City Scouts in 1974 for their first NHL season, wearing #4. Returned to Detroit via a trade half-way through that season where he again wore #4. Went to the Los Angeles Kings along with Marcel Dionne in a blockbuster trade. Assistant Coach of the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League |
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Muskegon Lumberjacks-The Life Of A Hockey Puck! $11.99 Jay Vandevoorde,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by AuthorHouse |
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My Life As A Human Hockey Puck $6.99 Wally McDoogle as team mascot for the Middletown Super Chickens is calamity enough until he is also thrown in to play goalie. |
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My Life as a Human Hockey Puck $6.99 Wally McDoogle, klutz-extraordinaire, has stumbled his way into sports stardom. But only Wally could end up playing hockey goalie against the monstrous Mad Dog Miller while being trapped in a chicken suit. Before his misadventures end, Wally finally learns the real dangers of jealousy and envy, and the true value of aspirin. |
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NHL 08 $49.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NHL 08 also includes “Goalie Mode”, where users can control their goalie with a new 3rd person camera. Another new feature is the ability to create custom plays, where you can take a team into practice mode and work on creating a custom play. New communication occurs through the controller rumble feature allowing users to communicate with a teammate in multiplayer games. Users can call for the puck by tapping the ice with their stick just like the pros. With the NHL going to the Rbk Edge jerseys with new color patterns and even new logos for some teams, for the 2007/08 NHL season, EA Sports has reported that all 30 teams’ new jerseys will be in the game. A code to unlock the new Rbk Edge jerseys was posted on the Rbk Hockey website. This code can be entered in the “Rbk Edge” tab under the “My NHL 08″ menu. It was released before all the jerseys were released and then taken off the Reebok site leading some to believe that Reebok intentionally leaked the code to give everyone a look. |
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On Family, Hockey and Healing $9.99 The inspiring story of an ordinary man who, from humble beginnings and against the odds of a devastating illness, has led—is leading—an extraordinary life.To many people, Walter Gretzky is the ultimate dad, the father of the Great One, Wayne Gretzky, and the first inspired coach to a talented young boy. Walter’s major insight into hockey—that a player should “go where the puck is going”—guided Wayne’s brilliant style, and Wayne himself has said about his talent: “It’s God-given. It’s Wally-given.” It’s safe to say that no other famous hockey player’s father is held in such high esteem, and that Walter Gretzky has carved out this singular niche in his own right.Now, for the first time, Walter tells at length the story of his life, about growing up on a small family farm, about meeting and marrying Phyllis, about raising four boys and a girl in a modest home in Brantford on the salary of a telephone repairman, about hanging onto his modesty and values when the comet of talent and celebrity hit.Walter also talks about the process of recovering from a stroke that came close to killing him ten years ago. Through his own grit and determination, and with the help of dedicated therapists and doctors, his family and friends, Walter battled back from an aneurysm that left him with many cognitive difficulties and destroyed a decade of memories—including his recollection of the death of his mother and almost all of Wayne’s NHL triumphs of the eighties.As many of the people who have encountered Walter even briefly will testify, he is very charismatic, and it’s his extraordinary compassion, which has flourished since his stroke, thatmakes him so compelling. Yes, he struggles with some limitations, but he has also discovered a calling in helping others. All of his many public speaking engagements are for charity, and this book would not exist were it not for Walter’s role as the official spokesperson for Canada’s Heart |
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Pat Conacher $67.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Patrick John Conacher (born May 1, 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward.Conacher started his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers in 1980. He also played for the Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils, Los Angeles Kings, Calgary Flames, and New York Islanders. He left the NHL after the 1996 season. He won the Stanley Cup in 1984 with the Edmonton Oilers.Ice hockey (hockey in countries where it is the most popular form of hockey) is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team’s goal. |
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Pathways to Agility: Mass Customization in Action $59.95 What does Wayne Gretzky, one of hockey’s premier players, have in common with the most successful manufacturing companies? The ability to anticipate the next move correctly and consistently. While Gretzky can sense where the puck is headed, top-notch manufacturers foresee where the market is headed—and prepare to change with it in order to meet the needs of their customers. In today’s business reality, agility—the ability to predict trends and establish appropriate procedures for handling them—is becoming increasingly important if manufacturers are to stand out from the crowd—and stay on top of the competition. In Pathways to Agility, John Oleson, Director of Manufacturing Technology at Dow Corning Corporation and a leading member of the Agility Forum, offers an authoritative overview of this revolutionary new approach to manufacturing. One of the first books to deliver strategies for applying agile concepts, this groundbreaking resource provides concise explanations of the fundamentals of agility and its role in mass customization, as well as practical, step-by-step guidelines for its effective implementation and smooth integration. Representing a significant alternative to the age-old "one-size-fits-all" model, agile manufacturing is being used by such leading firms as Levi Strauss, General Motors, Kodak, and Chrysler. A proven method for responding quickly and effectively to the individual—and ever-changing—needs of customers, it is an invaluable means of not only winning the war for market share, but becoming more streamlined and dynamic—and ultimately, more profitable. Providing a clear pathway to agility, this indispensable resource covers strategic as well as technical issues, and is packed with a wealth of real-world case studies, first-person perspectives from leading manufacturing professionals, and vital benchmarks from the field. Here’s where you’ll find comprehensive details on:Developing |
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Paul Coppo $44.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul “Racket” Coppo (born November 2, 1938 in Hancock, Michigan) is a retired ice hockey player. He was a member of the United States’s 1964 Winter Olympics team. He would go on to play with the Green Bay Bobcats of the United States Hockey League. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004.Ice hockey (called hockey in countries where it is the most popular form of hockey) is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team’s goal. It is a fast-paced physical sport. |
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Paul Platz $46.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul Platz (born July 28, 1920 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a Canadian ice hockey left winger who played on 3 provincial championships with the Winnipeg Monarchs.Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team’s goal. It is a fast-paced physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover, such as Canada, the Czech Republic, Latvia, the Nordic countries (especially Finland and Sweden), United States, Russia, Slovakia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. |
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Pond Hockey $14.95 Erik Jacobson, Robert Jacobson (Illustrator),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Dr. Puck Publications |
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Pond Hockey $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Pond hockey is a form of ice hockey very similar in its object and appearance to traditional ice hockey, but far simpler and designed to be played on part of a natural frozen body of water. The rink is 50% longer than a standard NHL-specification rink, and has no “boards” or “glass” surrounding it to add to the convenience of setting up and removing the rink (usually only a barrier of snow keeps the puck in play). In addition, because there are no protective barriers behind the goal to contain high errant shots, the top of the goal is far lower, in fact only slightly taller than the width of a puck, and the goalie therefore does not require the specialized equipment that traditional ice hockey goalies must have. Because of these differences, pond hockey places more emphasis on skating and puckhandling ability and less on shooting and checking. Non-competitive pond hockey is often played with no proper goals (shoes are often used instead), rinks of almost any size and no boards at all (even snow barriers). There exists a World Pond Hockey Championship for players to aspire to. The term “pond hockey” is also often used, especially in Canada, as a synonym to Shinny. In this context it is meant to describe any form of disorganized ice hockey that is played outdoors, typically on a naturally frozen body of water. Organized outdoor hockey has been played many years before indoor rinks were popularized. Pond hockey or shinny has its origins in early Navajo Native American culture. The story of shinny came from a Navajo story where a stranger challenged a Navajo god to a game of shinny in order to free Navajo slaves. Free men and slaves lined up and an agreement was made, the terms of which was as follows. If the Navajo god won the … More: |
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Puck Control Drills for Hockey $9.95 Randy Gregg,Paperback – REV,Series: Hockey Skills Series, English-language edition,Pub by Lone Pine Publishing |
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Puck Heaven: Minnesota State Boys Hockey Tournament Trivia $12.26 Jim Hoey,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Nodin Press |
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Ralph Buchanan $62.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph “Bucky” Buchanan (b. December 28, 1922 in Montreal, Quebec – d. April 24, 2005) is a former Canadian ice hockey right winger. He played for the New York Rangers of the NHL. Ice hockey (hockey in countries where it is the most popular form of hockey) is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team’s goal. It is a fast-paced physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover, such as Canada, the Czech Republic, Latvia, the Nordic countries (especially Finland and Sweden), United States, Russia, Slovakia, and Switzerland. |
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Reflections 2008: The NHL Hockey Year in Photographs $27 Readers relive one of hockey’s most exciting seasons in this large-format photographic book. It’s all here, from the first drop of the puck to the hoisting of the Stanley Cup. Action shots and quiet moments feature gifted players like Sidney Crosby, Nicklas Lidstrom, Jarome Iginla, Vincent Lecavalier, and Martin Brodeur. Featuring 150 high-quality photographs, an introduction recounting the high points of the season, and a full section of year-end statistics, Reflections 2008 is both a specific tribute to the season and a timeless keepsake for fans. |
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Reflections 2009: The NHL Hockey Year in Photographs $24 Capturing the power, speed, and grace of professional hockey, the Reflections series is a fan-favorite for its comprehensive highlights of the year’s best moments. Offering a pictorial chronicle of the 2008-09 season, this title covers the greatest victories from the first drop of the puck to the hoisting of the Stanley Cup. |
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Rob Ramage $94.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert George “Rob” Ramage (born January 11, 1959) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Minnesota North Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers. He also played one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Birmingham Bulls. Ramage was selected first overall by the Colorado Rockies in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft. He spent his junior career with the London Knights, who have since retired his number 5, and also played a season in the WHA for the Birmingham Bulls. In his rookie season with Colorado, Ramage became a part of history. While the Rockies were playing the New York Islanders, the Rockies’ goaltender left the ice for an extra skater after a delayed penalty was called on the Islanders. The puck deflected off the chest protector of Islanders goalie Billy Smith into the corner. |
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Roller Hockey International $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1996 Rhi Season, All-Time Rhi Team Performance List, Roller Hockey International, Eddie Garrison, 1993 Rhi Season, List of Philadelphia Bulldogs Records, 1999 Rhi Season, 2nd Roller Hockey International All-Star Game, Atlantic Division, 1994 Rhi Season, Central Division, List of Rhi Seasons. Excerpt: 1994 end{sloppypar The 1993 RHI season was the inaugural season of Roller Hockey International . It began in June, 1993, with the regular season ending in August. The Murphy Cup playoffs ended on September 7, with the Anaheim Bullfrogs defeating the Oakland Skates to win the first Murphy Cup .League business Rule differences from the NHL Though the basic rules of Roller Hockey International (RHI) were the same as the National Hockey League (NHL) at the time, RHI brought in a number of rule changes aimed at increasing offense. First RHI did not play on ice as in the NHL, but a plastic tile surface known as Sport Court . Because a regulation ice hockey puck , which is 5 1/2 to 6 ounces and made of black rubber, the RHI puck was 3 1/2 ounces and made of red plastic.The game time was reduced from three 20minute periods in ice hockey, to four 12minute quarters in roller hockey . The overtime format was changed. The NHL’s format saw a maximum 5minute sudden death overtime in the regular season, and unlimited 20minute sudden death periods in the playoffs. RHI had a four-on-four shootout in both the regular season and playoffs.RHI decreased the number of players on the surface at full strength from six (five skaters and one goaltender) in the NHL, to five (four skaters and one goaltender). Thus they also reduced the minimum number of players after penalties from four to three. With fewer players on the playing surface, RHI reduced the number of players dressed for a game from 20 |
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Score!: The Action and Artistry of Hockey’s Magnificent Moment $2.52 DO YOU KNOW: WHO ONCE SCORED TEN GOALS IN A SINGLE HOCKEY GAME HOW THE STANLEY CUP CAME TO BE HOCKEY’S GREATEST PRIZE WHY THE UNITED STATES’S VICTORY OVER THE SOVIET UNION AT THE 1980 WINTER OLYMPICS IS KNOW AS THE "MIRACLE ON ICE" Find out about the hardest slap shots, the most unstoppable one-timers, and the wildest attempts to put the puck in the net in Score!: The Action and Artistry of Hockey’s Magnificent Moment. From overtime game-winners to profiles of the greatest players and performances, this book is crammed with amazing facts for every hockey fan! |
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Searching for Bobby Orr $24.95 The book that hockey fans have been waiting for: the definitive, unauthorized account of the man many say was the greatest player the game has ever seen.The legend of Bobby Orr is one of the most enduring in sport. Even those who have never played the game of hockey know that the myth surrounding Canada’s great pastime originates in places like Bobby Orr’s Parry Sound. In the glory years of the Original Six – an era when the majority of NHLers were Canadian – hockey players seemed to emerge fully formed from our frozen rivers and backyard rinks, to have found the source of their genius somehow in the landscape. Like Mozart, they just appeared – Howie Morenz, Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard and Bobby Orr – spun out of the elements, prodigies, geniuses, originals, to stoke the fantasy of a nation united around a puck.Bobby Orr redefined the defensive style of hockey; there was nothing like it before him. He was the first to infuse the defenseman position with offensive juice, driving up the ice, setting up players and scoring some goals of his own. He was the first player to win three straight MVP awards, the first defenseman to score twenty or more goals in a season. His most famous goal won the Boston Bruins the Stanley Cup in 1970 – for the first time in twenty-nine years – against the St. Louis Blues in overtime. But history will also remember Bobby Orr as a key figure in the Alan Eagleson scandal, and as the unfortunate player forced into early retirement in 1978 because of his injuries. His is a story of dramatic highs and lows.In Searching for Bobby Orr, Canada’s foremost sportswriter gives us a compelling and graceful look at the life and times of Bobby Orr that is also a revealing portrait of a game and a country in transition.So Bobby Orr could skate, he could stickhandle, he could fight when he had to. He could shoot without looking at the net, without tipping a goaltender as |
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Slap Shots: Hockey’s Greatest Insults $0.01 Nelson recorded the absurdities and outrages of the nation’s basketball courts and baseball fields in several highly successful anthologies of quotations, vignettes, and insults. Now he turns his ever vigilant eye and ear to the hockey arena, in a roundup of opinions as sharp as a skater’s blades and as out of control as a runaway puck. 20 photos. |
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Snap Shot Ice Hockey $48.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A snap shot is a like an abbreviated Slapshot in ice hockey. The purpose of the snap shot is to combine the main advantages of the wrist shot. The snap shot is accomplished with a quick snap of the wrists while the puck rests in place. The difference between a snap shot and a wrist shot is that the hockey blade is accelerated towards the puck from a small distance behind it. This allows the player to flex the shaft on the ice and strike the puck at speed — although not to the degree of a full slap shot. The stick is usually not lifted higher than the knee during the shot, which makes this shot legal in most old-timer hockey leagues despite its rapid pace. Snap shots are the most common shot taken when the crease player receives the pass and decides not to one-time the puck. |
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Sports equipment: Parachute, Boomerang, Hockey puck, Sled, Racquet, Balance board, Field hockey stick, Glider, Pinsetter, Goal, Footbag $19.99 Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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Team Sports $39.71 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ice Hockey, Netball, Australian Rules Football, Field Hockey, Rugby Football, Ultimate, Bandy, Canadian Football, Rugby Union, Bobsleigh, Team Handball, Korfball, Kabaddi, Gaelic Football, Water Polo, Lacrosse, Synchronized Swimming, Tug of War, Roller Hockey, Curling, Floorball, Quidditch, Hurling, Rugby League, Shinty, Shuttlecock, Softball, Camogie, Rounders, Paralympic Association Football, Guts, Cricket, Field Lacrosse, Squad Number, Futsal, Roller Derby, Contesting, List of Fictional Sports Teams, Native American Mascot Controversy, U.s. All Star Federation, Cross Country Running, Russian Fist Fighting, Inline Hockey, List of Sports Team Names and Mascots Derived From Indigenous Peoples, Sepak Takraw, Valencian Pilota, Underwater Hockey, Pesäpallo, Ringette, Newcomb Ball, Beach Soccer, Medley Swimming, Hurling Outside Ireland, Inner Tube Water Polo, Finnish Skittles, Jugger, British Bulldogs, Eton Fives, Harrow Football, Cycle Polo, Broomball, Tchoukball, Crocker, Peteca, Hardcourt Bike Polo, Jianzi, Dodgeball, Ifc Tugs, Rogaining, Pallone, Wheelchair Basketball, Harpastum, Moscow Broomball, Underwater Rugby, Tent Pegging, Bladderball, Punchball, Hailes, Composite Rules Shinty-Hurling, Wallyball, Indoor Field Hockey, Goalball, Wok Racing, Goaltimate, Horseball, British Baseball, Cowboy Polo, Dribbling, Ceremonial First Puck, Indoor Rules, Ulama, Bossaball, Vintage Base Ball, Throwball, History of Hurling, Segway Polo, Angleball, Oină, Stoolball, Stickball, Bolas Criollas, Schtick, Powerchair Football, Biribol, Prisoner Ball, Quota Players, Cammag, Prison Handball, Wheelchair Curling, Trugo, Kho Kho, Beach Rugby, Danish Longball, Foot Hockey, Hand Cricket, Volata, Intramural Softball, Hot Box, World Adult Kickball Association, Frisian… More: |
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The Best Game You Can Name $4.85 Bidini returns to the game he loves bestIn 2004, Dave Bidini laced on his skates and slid onto the ice of Toronto’s McCormick Arena to play defence with the Morningstars in the E! Cup tourney. While thrashing around the ice, swiping at the puck and his opponents, Bidini got to thinking about how others see the game. Afterward, he set off to talk to former professional players about their experiences of hockey. The result is vintage Bidini — an exuberant, evocative, highly personal, and vividly coloured account of his and his team’s exploits, interwoven with the voices of such hockey heroes as Frank Mahovlich, Yvan Cournoyer, John Brophy, Steve Larmer, and Ryan Walter.All aspects of the game are up for grabs in The Best Game You Can Name — the sweetest goals, the worst fights, the trades, the off-ice perks and the on-ice rivalries, not to mention the rotten pranks. Bidini and the former players offer sometimes startling observations about the fans, coaches, owners, other players, and the huge rush of being on the ice, stick in hand, giving everything you have to the best game you can name.From the Hardcover edition. |
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The Best Game You Can Name $12.99 Bidini returns to the game he loves bestIn 2004, Dave Bidini laced on his skates and slid onto the ice of Toronto’s McCormick Arena to play defence with the Morningstars in the E! Cup tourney. While thrashing around the ice, swiping at the puck and his opponents, Bidini got to thinking about how others see the game. Afterward, he set off to talk to former professional players about their experiences of hockey. The result is vintage Bidini — an exuberant, evocative, highly personal, and vividly coloured account of his and his team’s exploits, interwoven with the voices of such hockey heroes as Frank Mahovlich, Yvan Cournoyer, John Brophy, Steve Larmer, and Ryan Walter.All aspects of the game are up for grabs in The Best Game You Can Name — the sweetest goals, the worst fights, the trades, the off-ice perks and the on-ice rivalries, not to mention the rotten pranks. Bidini and the former players offer sometimes startling observations about the fans, coaches, owners, other players, and the huge rush of being on the ice, stick in hand, giving everything you have to the best game you can name.From the Hardcover edition. |
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The Dirty Truth $9.99 Warning this book contains highly sexual material. This book brings to light, sex in hockey, and how common group sex has become over the past several years. It contains confessional short stories from various Puck Bunnies, player´s girlfriends, players and fans. I wrote this book to open peoples eyes to the new “Media Generation” of teenagers that openly participate in group sex. I do not form any opinions and have left it up to the readers to form their own opinions and views on the book and how they feel towards this sub-culture. Some girls are proud of their sexual exploits with hockey players and many of the player´s girlfriends talk about how they deal with the rumours and the Puck Bunnies. The players discuss the Puck Bunnies, as well as the fans and stalkers.This book contains real truths of a sub-culture that was, is and will likely continue to happen, in the world of sports and foremost hockey.The content is written in a non-judgemental way and with no sarcasm or finger pointing.The book may be a hard read and difficult for some to swallow, but, believe you me, this sub-culture exists, even if the players change from year to year. |
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The Dirty Truth: Hockey and the Puck Bunny a True Sub-culture $29.99 Warning this book contains highly sexual material. This book brings to light, sex in hockey, and how common group sex has become over the past several years. It contains confessional short stories from various Puck Bunnies, playeŕs girlfriends, players and fans. I wrote this book to open peoples eyes to the new “Media Generation” of teenagers that openly participate in group sex. I do not form any opinions and have left it up to the readers to form their own opinions and views on the book and how they feel towards this sub-culture. Some girls are proud of their sexual exploits with hockey players and many of the playeŕs girlfriends talk about how they deal with the rumours and the Puck Bunnies. The players discuss the Puck Bunnies, as well as the fans and stalkers.This book contains real truths of a sub-culture that was, is and will likely continue to happen, in the world of sports and foremost hockey.The content is written in a non-judgemental way and with no sarcasm or finger pointing.The book may be a hard read and difficult for some to swallow, but, believe you me, this sub-culture exists, even if the players change from year to year. |
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The Dirty Truth: Hockey and the Puck Bunny a True Sub-culture $15.57 Warning this book contains highly sexual material. This book brings to light, sex in hockey, and how common group sex has become over the past several years. It contains confessional short stories from various Puck Bunnies, playeŕs girlfriends, players and fans. I wrote this book to open peoples eyes to the new “Media Generation” of teenagers that openly participate in group sex. I do not form any opinions and have left it up to the readers to form their own opinions and views on the book and how they feel towards this sub-culture. Some girls are proud of their sexual exploits with hockey players and many of the playeŕs girlfriends talk about how they deal with the rumours and the Puck Bunnies. The players discuss the Puck Bunnies, as well as the fans and stalkers.This book contains real truths of a sub-culture that was, is and will likely continue to happen, in the world of sports and foremost hockey.The content is written in a non-judgemental way and with no sarcasm or finger pointing.The book may be a hard read and difficult for some to swallow, but, believe you me, this sub-culture exists, even if the players change from year to year. |
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The Final Game $0.01 Danny and his friends Petou and Anita live for hockey. So when they are asked to join the Wolves late in the season, they are determined to do their best for the town team. Some of the players, however, start to grumble about the latecomers. Travis, the Wolves’ best forward, calls them “the wimps” and makes sure they are ignored on the ice. With the final game of the season looming, Travis is hogging the puck and the Wolves are no longer playing as a team. |
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Todd Hlushko $62.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Todd Hlushko (born February 7, 1970 in Guelph, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames and Pittsburgh Penguins. Hlushko was a member of the Canadian 1994 Winter Olympics ice hockey team, winning a silver medal.Ice hockey (hockey in countries where it is the most popular form of hockey) is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team’s goal. It is a fast-paced physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover, such as Canada, the northern United States, the Nordic countries (especially Sweden and Finland), Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Slovakia. With the advent of indoor artificial ice rinks it has become a year-round pastime in these areas. |
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Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: An Unusual Book of Euphemisms $1.9 At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare…Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your @$$! off.Includes: Exactly how to address individual mounds of foul, undigested lumps of donkey entrails That “F”-ing word and other intensives Many, many ways to refer to the part that goes over the fence last More euphemisms, synonyms, phrases and descriptions than you knew existed for sexual activities, proclivities, untoward incidents, accidents of nature and the beast with two backs Addressing the mentally incompetent, the cerebrally challenged, the absurdly bureaucratic, the impossibly rational and other instances of ineptitude, obfuscation or obstruction and much more! |
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Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: An Unusual Book of Euphemisms $12.95 At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare…Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your @$$! off.Includes: Exactly how to address individual mounds of foul, undigested lumps of donkey entrails That “F”-ing word and other intensives Many, many ways to refer to the part that goes over the fence last More euphemisms, synonyms, phrases and descriptions than you knew existed for sexual activities, proclivities, untoward incidents, accidents of nature and the beast with two backs Addressing the mentally incompetent, the cerebrally challenged, the absurdly bureaucratic, the impossibly rational and other instances of ineptitude, obfuscation or obstruction and much more! |
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Vyacheslav Bulanov $62.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vyacheslav Bulanov (born September 3, 1970 in Moscow) is a Russian ice hockey referee, who referees in the Kontinental Hockey League.He is one of the most experienced international referees having officiated the Winter Olympics and four World Hockey Championships. He has officiated over 400 games in the KHL.Ice hockey (hockey in countries where it is the most popular form of hockey) is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team’s goal. |
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Whose Puck Is It, Anyway?: A Season with a Minor Novice Hockey Team $12.99 Every winter, in hockey arenas across North America, as soon as the kids step onto the ice, the abuse begins. Coaches yell at the players, parents yell at the coaches, and everyone yells at the referees. After nearly a decade of coaching youngsters, Ed Arnold decided he wanted kids to learn the fundamentals of hockey but he also wanted them to have fun. He got support in this enterprise from two former NHL players, goalie Greg Millen and forward Steve Larmer. Concerned that the children’s game was being taken far too seriously by both parents and coaches, they also believed that the kids were losing the opportunity to reinvent the game for themselves.So it came about that in the winter of 2000, when the parents of the would-be Minor Novice Peterborough Petes showed up with their kids for tryouts, they were handed a letter outlining the coaches’ new philosophy. There would be no yelling at players, coaches, or referees. Players would play all positions. They would not be forced to follow a “systems” approach to hockey, but would be left to figure out what to do in a given situation for themselves. And all members of the team would be given equal ice time.Not every parent liked it, but the kids sure had a good time. Readers of this inspiring book will have a wonderful time, too, as they follow the adventures of the team. Coach Larmer wears a Stanley Cup ring but he meant exactly what he said when he told a reporter that his year with the kids was the most fun he ever had in hockey.From the Hardcover edition.Author Biography: Ed Arnold is managing editor of the Peterborough Examiner.From the Hardcover edition. |
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Whose Puck Is It, Anyway?: A Season with a Minor Novice Hockey Team $16.95 Every winter, in hockey arenas across North America, as soon as the kids step onto the ice, the abuse begins. Coaches yell at the players, parents yell at the coaches, and everyone yells at the referees. After nearly a decade of coaching youngsters, Ed Arnold decided he wanted kids to learn the fundamentals of hockey but he also wanted them to have fun. He got support in this enterprise from two former NHL players, goalie Greg Millen and forward Steve Larmer. Concerned that the children’s game was being taken far too seriously by both parents and coaches, they also believed that the kids were losing the opportunity to reinvent the game for themselves.So it came about that in the winter of 2000, when the parents of the would-be Minor Novice Peterborough Petes showed up with their kids for tryouts, they were handed a letter outlining the coaches’ new philosophy. There would be no yelling at players, coaches, or referees. Players would play all positions. They would not be forced to follow a “systems” approach to hockey, but would be left to figure out what to do in a given situation for themselves. And all members of the team would be given equal ice time.Not every parent liked it, but the kids sure had a good time. Readers of this inspiring book will have a wonderful time, too, as they follow the adventures of the team. Coach Larmer wears a Stanley Cup ring but he meant exactly what he said when he told a reporter that his year with the kids was the most fun he ever had in hockey.From the Hardcover edition.Author Biography: Ed Arnold is managing editor of the Peterborough Examiner.From the Hardcover edition. |
