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Tarasov
Tarasov has left us a unique perspective on the history and development of hockey in his homeland. In this, his last book before his death in 1995, he provides a fascinating and informal assessment of the Russian and Canadian styles of hockey through the eyes of a world-famous coach.
Forever Their Coach
FOREVER THEIR COACH, "All Rapped Up is a circle of life, positive story, about a young ice hockey coach who followed in the coaching footsteps of his father and the man who taught him how to skate and play the game. You will read how in his 9 years of coaching at the Pee Wee & Bantam levels, Pat Doyle and his teams overcame the odds year after year to achieve personal success. In this day and age, it seems like all you hear in the media are negative stories surrounding youth sports with coaches, parents and players. However, in this book youll discover how Coach Patty had a unique relationship with all of his players and how they had a unique relationship with him as well. He was their coach...
They Call Me Killer
An intimate, humorous look at Brian Kilrea's 60-year career in junior hockey With more wins than any coach in junior hockey history, and a personality as large as his winning record, Brian Kilrea is more than a hockey legend, he's one of the most beloved figures in the game. With veteran sportswriter, James Duthie, Kilrea gives fans a rink-side view of his twenty-nine plus seasons as head coach and now general manager of the Ottawa 67s. With stories and comments from famous NHLers who played for Killer, readers will get a taste of Kilrea's hardnosed coaching style, the gritty often humorous reality of his life as a coach, riding on buses and in the locker room, as well as the knowledge and d...
Breakaway Wisdom
Breakaway Wisdom is a compilation of interviews with the head coaches of Hockey East, one of six men's Division 1 college hockey conferences in the United States. Each coach was assigned a specific topic of a success concept, and each coach was asked to impart his wisdom on each topic from a hockey coaching perspective, and then from a personal perspective. The author concludes each chapter with his own personal interpretation of what the concept means to him from personal experience. The final chapter is an overall synthesized recap of the work.
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Bench Bosses
Filled with compelling biographical narrative, innovative analysis, historical allusion, hockey folklore, humour, heartbreak, and tragedy, Bench Bossesbrings about a new type of hockey history book. By introducing a creative new method for evaluating coaching success, professional historian and hockey columnist Matthew DiBiase settles many a debate. His hard-hitting prose and cogent analysis covers key aspects of coaching and definitively identifies the greatest offensive and defensive coaches, expounds on the best penalty-killing or power-play coaches and delves into statistics to determine the nastiest squads on the ice. His unique assessment method determines his selection of the top fift...
Scotty
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A hockey life like no other. A hockey book like no other. Scotty Bowman is recognized as the best coach in hockey history, and one of the greatest coaches in all of sports. He won more games and more Stanley Cups than anyone else. Remarkably, despite all the changes in hockey, he coached at the very top for more than four decades, his first Cup win and his last an astonishing thirty-nine years apart. Yet perhaps most uniquely, different from anyone else who has ever lived or ever will again, he has experienced the best of hockey continuously since he was fourteen years old. With his precious standing room pass to the Montreal Forum, he saw "Rocket" Richard play at his pea...
They Called Me Chocolate Rocket
In the ultra-competitive junior hockey leagues in the early 1960s, a young man could tolerate nearly anything that helped him stand out from the hordes of other prospects, so John Paris, Jr. did just that. The African-Canadian from Nova Scotia dazzled and dominated on the ice -- often facing racism on and off the ice. It took courage. They Called Me Chocolate Rocket is the story of Johns life from his childhood in the Currys Corner section of Windsor, Nova Scotia, where he was rated one of the top junior prospects in Eastern Canada and scouted by the legendary Scotty Bowman, to his eventual decision to coach, beginning with the Montreal-area minor systems and on to the pro ranks with the...
Keenan
This behind-the-scenes story of National Hockey League coach and general manager Mike Keenan provides a fascinating insight into the obsessive and sometimes self-destructive mind of one of sports most controversial leaders. Photos.
