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A back-up goalie's hilarious behind-the-mask look at life in the NHL Jamie McLennan spent twenty years playing professional hockey. Sort of. As the backup for such legendary goalies as Grant Fuhr, Ron Hextall, Roberto Luongo, and Miikka Kiprusoff, he saw everything--except much playing time. In The Best Seat in the House, McLennan looks back on his unique career, from breaking into the NHL, to working with the legends, to life on the road and in the league, offering readers an unprecedented glim...

Releasedatum: 2013-06-04 € 10,99

With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how hockey is played and covered. Knowledge of the underlying numbers can help fans stretch their enjoyment of the game. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes — or maybe what they should be doing! Inspired by Bill James’s...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-18 € 10,99

Watching her twin sister deal with being a hockey wife putting up with moves across the country and injuries has made Hannah Howard determined not to date hockey players. Ever. When she’s introduced to gorgeous center Scott Richards after an all-star game, though, her resolution is tested. She's pushed into going out with him afterward, but as their chemistry rockets off the charts that night, Hannah begins to wonder if her hands off hockey players rule is about to go up in smoke. Scott, a sta...

Releasedatum: 2015-02-02 € 1,99

Documenting his notorious career with the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks, Bob Probert details in this autobiography how he racked up points, penalty minutes, and bar bills, establishing himself as one of the most feared enforcers in the history of the NHL. As Probert played as hard off the ice as on, he went through rehab 10 times, was suspended twice, was jailed for carrying cocaine across the border, and survived a near fatal motorcycle crash all during his professional career, a...

Releasedatum: 2010-10-01 € 10,99

The first black American in the NHL tells his story Val James became the first African American player in the NHL when he took to the ice with the Buffalo Sabres in 1982, and in 1987 he became the first black player of any nationality to skate for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Born in central Florida, James grew up on Long Island and received his first pair of skates for his 13th birthday. At 16, James left home to play in Canada, where he was the only black person in junior and, often, in the whole ...

Releasedatum: 2015-02-01 € 10,99

Part biography, part memoir, and all catharsis Jim Harrison grew up on the prairies, played Junior in Saskatchewan, and pro with the Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, and Oilers. Three years before a former teammate equaled the mark, Harrison set one of the most enduring and seemingly unreachable records in professional hockey with three goals and seven helpers on January 30, 1973. And almost nobody remembers.  This is Harrison’s story: the games he played, the agent who stole from him, the woman he ...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-01 € 7,49

Terry Ryan was poised to take the hockey world by storm when he was selected eighth overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1995 NHL draft, their highest draft pick in a decade. Expected to go on to become a hockey star, Ryan played a total of eight NHL games for the Canadiens, scoring no goals and no assists: not exactly the career he, or anyone else, was expecting. Though Terry’s NHL career wasn’t long, he experienced a lot and has no shortage of hilarious and fascinating revelations abou...

Releasedatum: 2014-05-01 € 8,99

The Competitive Advantage Training 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 coupling them, w...

Releasedatum: 2013-06-04 € 4,99

Weight Training for Hockey is the most comprehensive and up-to-date hockey-specific training guide in the world today. Based on hundreds of on-ice tests performed on professional hockey players from North America and Europe, this book contains descriptions and photographs of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by hockey players worldwide. Inside, you fill find year-round hockey-specific programs that will improve your performance and get you results. ...

Releasedatum: 2014-01-01 € 6,99

In Playing With Fire, Theo Fleury takes us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player, and talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home. Dark personal issues began to surface, and drinking, drugs, gambling, and girls ultimately derailed a career that had him destined for the Hall of Fame. Fleury shares all in this raw, captivating, and honest look at the previously untold story of one the game's greatest heroes.

Releasedatum: 2009-10-01 € 10,99

Learn more about the high powered, fast paced game of professional hockey. The rules are often misunderstood and confused. Ice Hockey Guide – Basic Rules breaks down rules and rink configurations and explains penalties and other causes for the officials to stop play. This easy-to-read guide contains everything for the fan and non-fan alike to understand and enjoy the sport of ice hockey. Each section stands alone, so it can be used as a handy reference guide. The National Hockey League expansi...

Releasedatum: 2013-02-26 € 2,99

This book contains 10 animated hockey drills and their descriptions for use with 8U and 10U youth hockey teams

Releasedatum: 2013-01-01 € 1,49

"In the tradition of A Season on the Brink and Peter Gzowksi's The Game of Our Lives, Shawna Richer has had the exclusive assignment of chronicling Sidney Crosby's incredible rookie season. Beginning with the NHL entry draft that almost never was, Richer follows Crosby to Pittsburgh, where he is greeted as the team's savior and moves in with living legend Mario Lemieux. From there it's onto the ice, where the team's youngest player proves to be its best player day in and day out, staying on pace...

Releasedatum: 2007-09-01 € 10,99

Everything you wanted to know about the Canada Cup, the predecessor of the World Cup of Hockey. The Canada Cup saw the birth of international hockey involving NHL players. Following the Summit Series in 1972 and 1974, the world would finally see the nations of Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, the Soviet Union, Sweden, the United States and West Germany compete with all their best players for the first time. The Canada Cup gave us some of the greatest games and never-to-be-forgotten moments in ho...

Releasedatum: 2005-12-20 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 12,99

"I was 14 when I lost my front teeth. The main thing was, we won the game. You hate to lose your teeth  and  the game too."   Bill Barber Hockey Talk - Quotations About the Great Sport of Hockey, From The Players and Coaches Who Made It Great is a unique and inspired collection that includes over 350 quotations about every aspect of the great game of hockey-toughness, teamwork, scoring, goaltenders, the Stanley Cup and much, much more.  And it includes quotations fr...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-28 € 2,99