Explores the history and traditions of hockey. Features great players and coaches, necessary equipment, and gold medal winning players. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
Keeping up with all of hockey's cool facts can make your brain freeze. You need to take in long timeframes (the NHL has been around for almost 100 years), big numbers (Wayne Gretzky scored almost 3,000 points in his career), and surprising details (the United States and Canada are the only two countries that have won gold medals in women's hockey at the Olympics). How can all these numbers and ideas make more sense? Infographics!.
the untold story of a coach, a dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team
Coffey, Wayne R
2006
Tells the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and their upset of the Soviet Union team to win the gold medal. Coach Herb Brooks took a group of college kids with unusual chemistry, and, with a fierce determination and unconventional coaching methods, he molded them into a winning team. Includes updates of the players and coaches and how their Lake Placid Olympic win shaped the rest of their lives.
Presents a history of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, highlighting the games and players that have contributed to the team's success through the years.