Top 10 Hockey Goalies

Top 10 Hockey Goalies
Author: Dean Spiros
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766010109

Goaltender is probably the most high profile position in all of hockey. If things are going well for a team it is often the goalie who gets much of the credit. However, if the team should falter, the goalie is also often the one held most responsible. All of the goalies featured in this book are superstars. Author Dean Spiros looks at some of the all-time great netminders such as Jacques Plante and Glenn Hall, as well as some of the stars of today, such as Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur. Also includes profiles of Ed Belfour, Ken Dryden, Tony Esposito, Grant Fuhr, Terry Sawchuk, and Billy Smith.

Without Fear

Without Fear
Author: Kevin Allen
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781600786129

Who are the greatest hockey goalies of all time? This book attempts to settle that debate with an all-star lineup of experts just as impressive as the 50 men they select as the best goalies of the 20th century. Over 100 photos.

G.O.A.T. Hockey Goalies

G.O.A.T. Hockey Goalies
Author: Josh Anderson
Publisher: Lerner Publications TM
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Few positions in sports are more important than the hockey goalie. Learn about the greatest goalies in hockey history, explore their impact on the game, and then create your own list of the G.O.A.T. goalies.

Hockey Goaltending

Hockey Goaltending
Author: Eli Wilson
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492586293

Awareness, anticipation, physical conditioning . . . these are just some of the qualities a goaltender needs to bring onto the ice at game time. Excellence requires practice, consistency, and understanding—of the position, the situation, and your talents. No one knows this better than Eli Wilson does. Widely recognized as the leading authority on goaltending, he has worked alongside 30 NHL goaltenders, including Carey Price, Ray Emery, Tuukka Rask, and Brian Elliott. In Hockey Goaltending, Eli Wilson and Brian van Vliet have created the definitive guide to stopping more pucks, winning more games, and lowering your goals against average. Inside, you will find coverage on every facet of the position: • Selection of the right equipment for fit and functionality • Stance and presence in the net, including footwork, stick placement, and body positioning • Puck stopping, from save selection to execution • Postsave recovery strategies, including controlling and directing rebounds • Tactics for breakaways, odd-man rushes, and wraparounds • Focus and visualization methods to improve the mental game • On- and off-ice drills and training programs for year-round conditioning to increase strength, stamina, speed, and agility • Suggestions for building productive relationships between head coaches, goaltending coaches, and goaltenders From skills to strategies, equipment to exercises, Hockey Goaltending covers the position like no other. Packed with drills, step-by-step instructions, photos, diagrams, and coaching tips, this book touches on every aspect of the game so you can compete at the highest level.

Hockey Goaltending

Hockey Goaltending
Author: Brian Daccord
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2009
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736074278

Shut down your opponents and win more games with Hockey Goaltending. Featuring on and off-ice training and drills to improve reaction time and physical conditioning for this challenging position, this book and DVD package will provide you with the best instruction of techniques and mental strategies to elevate your play and protect the goal.

Goaltenders' Union, The

Goaltenders' Union, The
Author: Greg Oliver
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1770905847

A fresh, comprehensive, and entertaining take on hockey goalies In hockey, goalies have always been a contradiction - solitary men in a team game, the last line of defence and the stalwarts expected to save the day after any and every miscue and collapse from his teammates. It's no wonder that anyone who played the position has had his sanity questioned; yet some of the biggest innovations in the game have come from its puckstoppers. In The Goaltenders' Union, Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen talk to more than 60 keepers of yesterday and today, finding common threads to their stories, and in dozens of interviews about them with other coaches and players. From Gilles "Gratoony the Loony" Gratton, who refused to play because the moon was out of alignment with Jupiter, to Jonathan Quick, the athletically gifted master keeper of today's game, the book is an entertaining and enlightening peek behind the mask.

Brodeur

Brodeur
Author: Martin Brodeur
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2008-02-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0470156287

Martin Brodeur is a giant in the world of hockey. He is the number-one goalie in the game today, and one of the greatest goaltenders of the modern age. He has been netminder for the New Jersey Devils for 13 years, leading them to three Stanley Cup victories and winning numerous individual awards in the process, including two Vezina trophies. A three-time Olympian for Canada, Brodeur was part of the gold-medal winning team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He was in goal when Team Canada captured the 2004 World Cup and has been a part of every major Canadian team since he broke into the NHL in 1992. He is rated as the fourth most popular and recognizable hockey player of all time (after Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr, and Mario Lemieux). In Brodeur: Beyond the Crease, the game's best netminder takes a candid, personal look at his career, his sport, the business of hockey, the evolution of the sport, and his journey to the apex of the modern game. It is one man's detailed, unique view of the kaleidoscope of intrigue and competitive chaos that defines today's NHL, a rare opportunity to understand the sport through the eyes of one of the game's most insightful athletes at the height of his abilities. Brodeur: Beyond the Crease traces Brodeur's career, revealing how he became the best, from minor hockey through junior to the NHL and Team Canada. It examines his rich national and personal hockey heritage, and the pivotal role his father and others played in his career, as well as his thoughts and insights on: being part of the effort that turned the New Jersey Devils around from being what Wayne Gretzky called "a Mickey Mouse organization" into one of the game's most powerful and successful franchises; being in the crease in 2002 when Canada ended a 50-year gold medal drought at the Olympics; being a Canadian and a Quebecer playing and living in the US; life as a husband and father of four, his love of motorcycles, and the lifestyle of the modern athlete; pursuing greatness and sporting records; the best goalies he’s ever seen and the best NHL shooters; how he prepares for game day; what it's like to be the wealthiest man ever to play his position, and what it was like to watch $8 million in salary fly out the window during the NHL lockout of 2004-2005. In association with award-winning sports journalist Damien Cox, the top goalie in the game takes us inside the game and beyond, to reveal the man behind the mask.

Greatest Goalies of the NHL

Greatest Goalies of the NHL
Author: J. Alexander Poulton
Publisher: Overtime Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781897277126

Top-ranked NHL teams tend to be those with top-ranked goalies and a look back at the Stanley Cup champions of hockey history quickly proves the conventional wisdom. Great Goalies of the NHL profiles some of the most outstanding netminders the game has ever seen: Jacques Plante, who pioneered use of the goalie mask while minding net for the dynasty Montreal Canadiens that won 5 Stanley Cups in a row; Ken Dryden, another Canadiens goaltender who backstopped the team to six Stanley Cup victories; Glenn Hall, who still holds the record for most consecutive NHL games played by a goalie; Patrick Roy, known as Saint Patrick to his fans, widely regarded as the greatest goaltender of all time; such superstar stoppers as Terry Sawchuk, Grant Fuhr, Johnny Bower, Martin Brodeur, and more.

Patrick Roy

Patrick Roy
Author: Michel Roy
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1633193039

Reveals the man behind the mask—the triumphs and failures of one of the greatest goaltenders in the history of hockeyIn the early 1970s, a young Patrick Roy laced up his hockey skates for the very first time, like thousands of other kids. More than 30 years later, his indomitable will to win and his focus on being the very best brought him four Stanley Cups, three Conn Smythe trophies, three Vezina trophies, and many more individual honors. An incredible hockey talent who was instrumental in changing the very art of goaltending, Roy's success was driven as much by determination and perseverance as by talent. Patrick Roy: Winning, Nothing Else brings to life Roy's phenomenal career and unmasks his more mysterious personal side. Michel Roy, the father of this great sports legend, reveals what makes Patrick tick, taking us behind the scenes and into the family life of one of the greatest goaltenders of all time.