The Best Game You Can Name

The Best Game You Can Name
Author: Dave Bidini
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2011-12-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1551992280

Bidini returns to the game he loves best. In 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.

Going Top Shelf

Going Top Shelf
Author: Michael P. J. Kennedy
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2005
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781894384995

Going Top Shelf brings together for the first time in one collection some of Canada's best hockey poems and song lyrics. Included are works by such outstanding Canadian poets as Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Margaret Avison, Don Gutteridge and Lorna Crozier. And for music lovers with a taste for contemporary Canadian music, this entertaining collection includes lyrics by The Tragically Hip, The Rheostatics, Kathleen Edwards, Stompin' Tom Connors, and others. Going Top Shelf represents a cross-section of Canada 's poets and composers, ranging from 19th-century romantic poet Sir Charles G.C. Roberts to contemporary pop songstress Jane Siberry. Altogether, more than 30 authors and songwriters from across Canada reflect an intriguing diversity of forms and literary expression. Yet in all the poems, ice--or the sport played to extensively in Canada upon it--is used to express the ideas, beliefs and attitudes of this diverse group of Canadian authors. For the poetry scholar, for the lover of good music, for the hockey fan, this is a collection to be enjoyed. Indeed, Going Top Shelf represents a literary "top shelf" of hockey poetry without equal.

Ramblings From Rocco

Ramblings From Rocco
Author: Rocco J. Pendola
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2002-07-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595238912

Throughout his career in radio, which started when he was just thirteen, Rocco Pendola has lived all over The United States and traveled across North America. On this journey, he has learned alot about himself as well as the things that make him and other people tick. From his passions of hockey and Springsteen to his thoughts on how cities and suburbs are constructed and why people live in one or the other to his ride through Dallas radio, this book covers ground that anyone can relate to. Ramblings From Rocco is a thoughtful reflection on both the human and urban condition containing biting criticism along with eternal hope.

Hockey Night Tonight

Hockey Night Tonight
Author: Stompin' Tom Connors
Publisher: Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Ragweed
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780921556572

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, e, p, i.

The Hockey Song

The Hockey Song
Author: Stompin' Tom Connors
Publisher: Greystone Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1771641908

As Stompin’ Tom Connors sings, “It’s the good old hockey game, the best game you can name.” And in this charmingly illustrated book for all ages, the classic song played at hockey games around the world is imagined as a shinny game on an outdoor rink in the middle of the city that starts with two players and soon grows to include the whole community. “The puck is in! The hometown wins! The good ol’ hockey game.”

The Biggest Book of Hockey Trivia

The Biggest Book of Hockey Trivia
Author: Don Weekes
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1926812034

Hockey trivia master Don Weekes has cherry-picked more than 800 of his most compelling trivia questions and records to create this authoritative collection. Who was the only player to captain Steve Yzerman in NHL play? When did a forward or defenseman last tend goal during an NHL game? What is the time of the fastest goal from the start of a season-opening game? Irreverent, captivating, and even bizarre, these entertaining stories, historic milestones, and informative stats capture the essence of the game, today and yesterday.

Iggy and the Kid!

Iggy and the Kid!
Author: Martin Avery
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2010-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0557379660

A Novel Celebration Of Canada,The Winter Olympics 2010,And Hockey, Hockey, Hockey!

Crease-Crashing Hockey Trivia

Crease-Crashing Hockey Trivia
Author: Don Weekes
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1553653289

New rule changes, combined with the most promising collection of rookies ever, have produced seismic shifts in hockey's landscape. Don Weekes' latest work in his popular Hockey Trivia series hits all the high, low, and in-between spots of the game -- from which player ate up more of his team's payroll than any other NHL player from 2006-2007, to the greatest number of Top 10 scorers on a last place team in NHL history. Perfect for the "reluctant reader," this fun book contains plenty of true or false questions, games, puzzles, and quizzes.

Namaste 2.0

Namaste 2.0
Author: Dane A. Vemb
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 103916515X

Lifelong athlete and sport enthusiast Dane Vemb loves nothing better than finding the back of the net with a puck or pounding over hills on his mountain bike, but one day, he wanders into a Bikram yoga studio. By the time he leaves the hot room, sweat soaked and inspired, he’s completely hooked and determined to master this new “sport.” Unlike most aspiring yogis, though, Dane’s not averse to a can of Red Bull or a puff of weed to enhance his spiritual and physical endeavours. Now and then, he even goes off to Peru on a quest to explore the visionary properties of ayahuasca. Early in his dedicated at-home and in-studio yoga practice, Dane comes to realize his 26 posture sequence has plateaued and sets out on a pursuit for answers to better depth in each of the postures. After a decade, he is given the intel from a ‘yoga whisperer,’ and with the same energy he uses to hustle his way down the ice playing hockey, Dane develops a balanced and much-improved practice. In this hilarious and insightful part memoir/ part-yoga manual, he wittily chronicles his physical and emotional journey into thriving rather than merely surviving. In a series of beautiful photos of his daughter Stephanie demonstrating yin postures and before-and-after shots of Dane measuring the gains in his own practice, readers are provided with a practical, step-by-step guide to a better yoga practice. But more importantly, they are gifted a blueprint for a happier, more creative, and fulfilled life. And they’ll be laughing every step of the way.

The Great Canadian Hockey Novel

The Great Canadian Hockey Novel
Author: Martin Avery
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2010-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0557537509

This YA novel about a bantam hockey player who goes to Europe to represent Canada in the world championships is also about the heroes of tradtion and Beowulf. High school hockey players and English students will love it. A hockey players overcomes his fears of high school English after winning the world hockey championship.