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Author | : Stephen Brunt |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1633191079 |
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From his standout youth, where he honed his skills on a backyard rink, to his unlikely jump to the pros at the age of 17, this biography chronicles Wayne Gretzky's ascension to the greatest hockey player of all time to his shocking trade from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in 1998—an event that rocked hockey fans across North America. This chronicle reveals, for the first time, the true story behind the deal, as well as Gretzky's important role in making the trade happen. From the press conference where the trade was announced and where Gretzky wept, this work notes how the “Great One” could have been crying tears of joy as he realized his life was about to get a whole lot better—playing for more money in a California city that would be a perfect home for him and his glamorous new actress-wife.
Author | : Bruce Dowbiggin |
Publisher | : MacFarlane Walter & Ross |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Incredibly, the legacy of one-time hockey czar Alan Eagleson still poisons professional hockey. The generation of players that "the Eagle" systematically abused, misled, and defrauded continues to take its revenge on his successors. When a former Boston player, Mike Gillis, suffered a career-ending injury, Eagleson, his agent, bilked him out of some $40,000 in insurance money. Gillis sued and won. What Gillis learned from the episode is that players need hard-nosed and honest representation and that no quarter needs to be given in encounters with the good old boys who run the game. Gillis is an agent now - one of the best. The players he and other trained agents represent routinely get contracts worth tens of millions of dollars. Over the past ten years, the NHL's payroll has shot up from nearly $200 million to more than $1 billion. Around 350 players make more than a million dollars per annum. And the league's owners are crying the blues. But these owners often buy up sports teams for reasons of ego and for kicks. And the general managers often are former players who like to shoot the breeze with old friends and do deals on the strength of a handshake. Neither is a match for the new breed of agent or for the players' association president Bob Goodenow. Something's got to give. Bruce Dowbiggin's eye-opening report takes readers from the locker rooms to the board rooms. His inside view makes sense of the seemingly crazy labour conflict that is about to batter the NHL.
Author | : Greg Wyshynski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781589793088 |
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Chronicles the most infamous events, worst ideas, and unfortunate trends in the history of professional sports, challenging some of the sports world's most revered traditions and silly phenomena.
Author | : Andrew Carl Holman |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 077357591X |
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Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. Skinazi (University of Alberta), and Julie Stevens (Brock University).
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Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
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Author | : Dan Diamond |
Publisher | : Kansas City, MI : Andrews McMeel ; Toronto : Distributed in Canada by Canadian Manda Group |
Total Pages | : 1890 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
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Download Total Hockey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An encyclopedia dedicated to hockey that includes entries on the history of the game, the rules, the teams in the National Hockey League, the major tournaments, and other related topics.
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Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : American newspapers |
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Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Jeff Z. Klein |
Publisher | : Chelsea House |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780791024003 |
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A biography of Mario Lemieux, detailing his career as a hockey superstar and revealing how he dealt with his illness.
Author | : Peter Gzowski |
Publisher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781894384599 |
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In this bestselling timeless classic, Peter Gzowski recounts the 1980-81 season he spent travelling around the NHL circuit with the Edmonton Oilers. These were the days when the young Oilers, led by a teenaged Wayne Gretzky, were poised on the edge of greatness, and about to blaze their way into the record books and the consciousness of a nation. While the story of the early Oilers embodies the book, The Game of Our Lives is much more than a retelling of one season in the life of an NHL team. Unlike any book ever written in the annals of hockey, Gzowski beautifully weaves together the anatomy of a modern NHL team with the magnificent history of the game to create one of the best books about hockey in Canada. Here are the great teams and the great players through the ages—Morenz, Richard, Howe, Orr, Hull—the men whose rare and indefinable genius on the ice exemplified the speed, grit and innovation of the game. The Game of Our Lives is the best book on the Canadian passion for hockey; a wondrously perceptive account of the hold the game has on Canadians. —Jack Granatstein, The National Post