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Author: Glenn Parker Publisher: eBook Partnership ISBN: 1618565621 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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Don Jordan is a gifted Major Junior hockey player with a problem. He is unable to control his temper and has got himself into a number of dustups with both his opposition and the hockey community itself. After one particular game during which Don strikes a player and the player has to be taken off the ice on a stretcher, Don begins to wonder if he has the temperament to be a hockey player.After considerable thought, he decides to quit hockey altogether and find a job. However, his coach is not impressed. Don is an integral part of his hockey team and with his loss, the team becomes much less of a threat to the rest of the league. His coach tells him to take a few days off and give it some more thought, but Don is adamant. As he sees it, there is no place for someone like him with his short fuse.Finding a job, however, proves to be harder than he imagined and after several weeks and only able to pick up work here and there, Don is frustrated and almost ready to rejoin his team. However, he receives a letter from a family friend in a small town in Southern Saskatchewan, a town called Fairmore, offering him a job. Don leaps at the opportunity and soon finds himself on a train from Saskatoon to Fairmore to take up a job at a lumber yard.Fairmore has an intermediate hockey team that is desperate for new talent and when Don arrives on the scene, the coach loses no time in trying to recruit Don. However, Don is reluctant. He has quit hockey and has no desire to play for an intermediate hockey team.Fairmore's coach, however, is determined to have Don join his team and eventually, through the influence of his daughter and community pressure, Don decides to join the team. Thus begins a long and frustrating journey trying to overcome his hair-trigger temper, adapt to his new environment and learn to trust the people closest to him. It is a hard lesson to learn for a 19-year-old, but Don discovers a lot about himself and his place in the hockey world.
Author: Glenn Parker Publisher: eBook Partnership ISBN: 1618565621 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Don Jordan is a gifted Major Junior hockey player with a problem. He is unable to control his temper and has got himself into a number of dustups with both his opposition and the hockey community itself. After one particular game during which Don strikes a player and the player has to be taken off the ice on a stretcher, Don begins to wonder if he has the temperament to be a hockey player.After considerable thought, he decides to quit hockey altogether and find a job. However, his coach is not impressed. Don is an integral part of his hockey team and with his loss, the team becomes much less of a threat to the rest of the league. His coach tells him to take a few days off and give it some more thought, but Don is adamant. As he sees it, there is no place for someone like him with his short fuse.Finding a job, however, proves to be harder than he imagined and after several weeks and only able to pick up work here and there, Don is frustrated and almost ready to rejoin his team. However, he receives a letter from a family friend in a small town in Southern Saskatchewan, a town called Fairmore, offering him a job. Don leaps at the opportunity and soon finds himself on a train from Saskatoon to Fairmore to take up a job at a lumber yard.Fairmore has an intermediate hockey team that is desperate for new talent and when Don arrives on the scene, the coach loses no time in trying to recruit Don. However, Don is reluctant. He has quit hockey and has no desire to play for an intermediate hockey team.Fairmore's coach, however, is determined to have Don join his team and eventually, through the influence of his daughter and community pressure, Don decides to join the team. Thus begins a long and frustrating journey trying to overcome his hair-trigger temper, adapt to his new environment and learn to trust the people closest to him. It is a hard lesson to learn for a 19-year-old, but Don discovers a lot about himself and his place in the hockey world.
Author: Stephen Cole Publisher: Anchor Canada ISBN: 9780385682145 Category : Hockey Languages : en Pages : 416
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"A wildly evocative chronicle of the decade that changed hockey forever. aaaaa"Lady Byng died in Boston" read a sign in the Garden arena in 1970, a cheery dismissal of the NHL trophy awarded the game's most gentlemanly player. A new age of hockey was dawning. For 30 years, hockey was an orderly and (relatively) well-behaved sport. There was one Commissioner, six teams and five colours--red, white, black, blue and yellow. Oh, and one nationality. Until 1967, every player, coach, referee and GM in the NHL had been a Canadian. And then came NHL expansion, the founding of the WHA, and garish new uniforms. The Seventies had arrived- the era that gave us not only disco, polyester suits, lava lamps and mullets but also the movie Slap Shot and the arrest of ten NHL players for on-ice mayhem. But it also gave us hockey's greatest encounter (the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit), its most splendid team, the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens, and the most aesthetically satisfying game--the three-all tie on New Year's Eve, 1975, between the Canadiens and the Soviet Red Army. aaaa Modern hockey was born in the sport's wild, sensational, sometimes ugly Seventies growth spurt. The forces at play in the decade's battle for hockey supremacy--dazzling speed vs. brute force--are now, for better or worse, part of hockey's DNA. This book is a welcome reappraisal of the ten years that changed how the sport was played and experienced. Informed by first-hand interviews with players and game officials, and sprinkled with sidebars on the art and artifacts that defined Seventies hockey, the book brings dramatically alive hockey's most eventful, exciting decade."
Author: Bruce Berglund Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520972856 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
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The untold story of hockey's deep roots from different regions of the world, and its global, cultural impact. 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.
Author: Jean Harvey Publisher: University of Ottawa Press ISBN: 0776601156 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 348
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Organized sport as we know it is not an expression of social consensus or of continuing progess toward a better world, nor is it a homogenous, cohesive entity. This book invites us to consider the hidden face of Canadian sport.
Author: Donna Bozzo Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399185526 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 226
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As seen on TODAY and in Parade magazine. Take the fast-track to FUN! With over 400 games, activities, crafts, projects, and more, you’ll be ready to shake up a rainy afternoon, enjoy unplugged family fun on the weekend, turn long car rides into game time, and create homemade crafts your kids will remember for years to come. These accessible activities require little more than items from around the house and a dash of imagination. Activities cover a wide range of ages, so every member of the family can feel engaged and excited. Donna Bozzo has shared her prescription for infusing tons of fantastic fun into your days with millions of people on television and in magazines. Now she gives you 427 easy-peasy ideas to help you to put more fun in your family’s life any and every day. Try her... · Five-minute fun fixes · Zany ways to shake up the ole (yawn) daily routine · Clever bedtime, homework, and chore time struggle-stoppers · Quick ways to create family memories · Easy, exciting ways to make each and every day a special occasion
Author: Michael Buma Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773586997 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 337
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Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity. However, recent decades have also been a period of uncertainty and change for the game, where players and teams have been exported to the US and traditional gender assumptions in hockey have increasingly been questioned. In Refereeing Identity, Michael Buma examines the ways in which the hockey novel genre attempts to reassure readers that "threatened" traditional Canadian and masculine identities still thrive on the ice. In a period of perceived crisis and flux, hockey novels offer readers the comforting familiarity of earlier times when the game was synonymous with Canada and men were defined by their physical strength. This comprehensive study of Canadian hockey novels draws on history, sport sociology, and literary criticism to challenge assumptions and stereotypes about identity. With the return of the Winnipeg Jets refuelling hockey nationalism and the public debate over hockey violence intensifying, Refereeing Identity is a timely and incisive account of how the game is represented - and misrepresented - in Canadian society.
Author: Bob Briggs Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738555157 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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Maines long winters would seem the ideal place for hockey to develop, but blistering winter conditions, frigid temperatures, and windchill made the sport unpleasant and even dangerous. The problem was not solved until 1976, when Harold Alfond donated a large sum of money for the establishment of a suitable facility for indoor hockey. University of Maine Ice Hockey tells the story of how a small school from Maine with a student body of under 12,000 rose to be one of the top-tier hockey programs in the nation, one of the great success stories in modern collegiate sports.
Author: Al Strachan Publisher: McClelland & Stewart ISBN: 0771083386 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 355
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Published with Wayne Gretzky's cooperation, this is the definitive biography of the greatest player that hockey has ever seen. From the time Wayne Gretzky began playing organized hockey at the age of six, his genius was evident. He scored one goal in his first season and 378 in his fifth. With the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s and later with the Los Angeles Kings, he was virtually unstoppable. He won nine Hart trophies as the leading scorer, and four Stanley Cups. Later, with the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers, he continued to show leadership, finesse, and grace both on and off the ice. Based on thousands of hours of conversations with Gretzky, including new interviews, 99 details Gretzky's move to L.A., his role as player and coach for Canada Cup and Olympic teams, and career highlights such as his greatest goal and greatest game. Gretzky also discusses with Strachan the challenges in his career--the truth about the gambling "scandal" and the behind-the-scenes negotiations before his trade to the St. Louis Blues. In this revealing, insightful, and definitive biography, Al Strachan takes readers on a most remarkable journey and details the life of Wayne Gretzky as it has never been told before.
Author: Andrew Murtagh Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1449771475 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 139
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Proof of Divine presents the journey of author Andrew Murtagh as he straddles the fence between faith and cynicism. Coming off autopilot in the race to the top of corporate America, he goes for an all-or-none look at the greatest story ever told. Blending his family's incredible stories of survival, faith, and hope--matched with his own walk from hockey player to coach to husband, father, and career man--he embarks on a five-year journey on the question of a greater meaning and critical investigation of theism and Christianity. Is there a God? Are science and faith mutually exclusive? Are all credible scientists atheists? How do the sciences' founding fathers and scientific thought leaders of the modern day weigh in on the matter? What is the state of the union with the origin of the universe and life? Is the Bible historically and archaeologically reliable? What of morality, purpose, and meaning? Who is the historical Jesus, and why Christianity? The graze of a bullet, a soldier surrounded, an armed robbery, and a fateful desert drive--Murtagh puts the faith of his youth to the ultimate test: the Proof of Divine.
Author: Gerry Boyce Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1770705139 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 315
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Winner of the Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History. Belleville, on the shores of the Bay of Quinte, traces its beginnings to the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists. For 30 years the centre of the present city was reserved for the Mississauga First Nation. White settlers who built dwellings and businesses on the land paid annual rent to them until the land was "surrendered" and a town plot laid out in 1816. The new town quickly became an important lumbering, farming, and manufacturing centre. Early influences include the Marmora Iron Works of the 1820s, the first railway in 1856, Ontario’s first gold rush in 1866, and prominent citizens such as noted pioneer author Susanna Moodie and Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canada’s fifth prime minister. This is a personal history of Belleville, based on Gerry Boyce’s half-century of research. Embedded throughout are interesting and obscure stories about scandals, murders, and hauntings — the underbelly of the growth of a city.
Author: Glenn Parker
Author: Glenn Parker
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