Author: Simon Mugford Publisher: ISBN: 9781443157988 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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A look at the most incredible AND outrageous hockey stories from across the world! Hockey Crazy is a unique, light-hearted look at the global game. This full-colour book, packed with amazing images and a lively text, covers wide-ranging hockey topics: from amazing goals, tantalizing tricks and brilliant saves to embarrassing mistakes, ludicrous haircuts and mascot mayhem. Mixing hockey's brilliant moments with the utterly bonkers, this entertaining read will have young readers astounded and laughing out loud in equal measure.
Author: Bob McKenzie Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470159391 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 611
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A revealing look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of minor hockey culture Known as TSN's "Hockey Insider," Canada's Bob McKenzie is synonymous with the sport and one of its most respected analysts. In Hockey Dad, McKenzie describes firsthand the joys and heartbreak of raising two sons, with entirely diverging athletic futures. He details their separate paths, describing Michael, a 22-year-old playing NCAA hockey on scholarship, and Shawn, now 19, whose competitive minor hockey life was cut short at age 14 because of multiple concussions. Their deeply personal stories, and the trials and tribulations of a father creating futures for them, offer readers a compelling look into the world and culture of minor hockey. Includes funny anecdotes, debates on numerous hockey issues, and personal reflections on the game and its culture With an unwavering look at his own strengths and weaknesses, as well as the entire system of minor hockey in Canada, Hockey Dad is an honest, irreverent and sometimes moving look at a sporting culture that is not so much a recreation as it is a way of life.
Author: Jody M. Anderson Publisher: Lake 7 Creative ISBN: 9780988366213 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 88
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Hockey Moms... if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? (Besides Soccer Moms!) This book pays tribute to Hockey Moms everywhere with hilarious illustrations, jokes and stories - including contributions from Hockey Moms and hockey greats, like Mike Eruzione! Finally, a book that gives us the credit we deserve! (Well, okay, our kids deserve a little credit, too.)
Author: Lindsay Wong Publisher: arsenal pulp press ISBN: 1551527375 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 233
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In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo”—Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo’s sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay’s foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Author: Gilles Tibo Publisher: Scholastic Canada ISBN: 1443107441 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 162
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Five favourite hockey stories in a special hardcover collection! Nicholas eats, sleeps and breathes hockey! Whether he's wrangling his equipment,playing in the big game or helping a new friend, he's always up to the challenge -- on and off the ice. This hardcover collection includes five funny, action-packed stories, all about hockey: * Where's My Hockey Sweater? * The Best Goalie Ever * The Big Game * A Very Hockey Christmas * Most Valuable Player
Author: Natasha Madison Publisher: This Is ISBN: 9781990376498 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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When a hockey princess jokingly hits up the NHL's biggest star to crash her ex-boyfriend's wedding, she's surprised when he accepts-but she's even more surprised when they fall for each other.
Author: Clint Malarchuk Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 1443432482 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 302
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In the spirit of The Game and The Blind Side, a raw, raucous and unvarnished look at life between the posts. No one role in the world of sports is as intimidating, exhilarating and as stress-ridden as the job of a hockey goaltender. Standing in the crease facing one-hundred-mile-an-hour slapshots, the entire game riding on your glovehand, standing on your head when necessary—all job requirements for those wanting to be the best goalies in the world. Now imagine doing that job while suffering high anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, and having your career nearly literally cut short by a skate across your neck. The Crazy Game takes you deep into the troubled mind of Clint Malarchuk, the former NHL goaltender for the Quebec Nordiques, Washington Capitals and the Buffalo Sabres. Even as a boy, Malarchuk faced such deep anxiety that he missed school, and he acted out at school and with his friends. His OCD changed the way he trained, and he was almost always the last player on the ice. When his throat was slashed during a goal-mouth mishap, Malarchuk nearly died on the ice. Forever changed, he struggled deeply with the depression and substance abuse that nearly cost him his life.
Author: Astra Groskaufmanis Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1460262921 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 170
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When four-year-old Conner starts pleading for hockey skates, his mother’s dreamy fantasies of après ski’s toasty fires, charming chalets, and chilled chardonnay rapidly evaporate. Soon, Astra reluctantly raises the white flag to the culture of hockey, and life becomes a whirlwind of early morning alarms, minivans stuffed with massive amounts of goalie equipment, ice-cold arenas, and appalling nutrition. Offside by a Mile – Confessions of a Hockey Mom, chronicles the frantic and frequently hilarious challenges of one family’s fourteen-year odyssey into the world of minor hockey. The universal challenges, joys, and sorrows of supporting childhood passions at the cost of home-decorating ambitions, healthy diet avowals, personal time, gobs of money, full-nights’ sleep, or any sort of downtime or personal freedom will be recognizable to parents everywhere. But with its wickedly frank and funny perspectives, Offside by a Mile offers a bubbly and refreshing tonic for it all.
Author: Simon Mugford
Author: Loris Lesynski
Author: Bob McKenzie
Author: Jody M. Anderson
Author: Lindsay Wong
Author: Gilles Tibo
Author: Natasha Madison
Author: John Sias
Author: Clint Malarchuk
Author: Astra Groskaufmanis