Andrew Podnieks

Szymon Szemberg

From its humble beginnings in France in 1908 to the centennial World Championships in Canada in 2008, the International Ice Hockey Federation has represented a remarkable rise in the popularity of hockey throughout the world. One Hundred Years charts the growth of the IIHF and traces the development of the game and its players.

Celebrating a Century of the IIHF

World of Hockey

A Day in the Life of the Maple Leafs

Jefferson Davis

Following on the heels of the successful "Hello Hockey Fans from Coast to Coast", the authors present their second book of obscure hockey lists. Photos.

More Amazing Hockey Lists for Trivia Lovers

The Three Stars and Other Selections

The NHL may have suspended operations for the 2004-05 season, but that didnt mean the game itself ceased to exist. No, indeed, hockey flourished outside the pro ranks of the worlds greatest league. Some NHLers went to Europe to play for both famous and little-known teams; others stayed in North America and joined the minor pros. Still others stayed close to home, practiced with friends, ran clinics, performed charity work. In general, hockey continued at all levels, and hockey players remained active in the game they love. Starting with the World Cup of Hockey in September 2004 and ending with the 69th World Championship in Austria in May 2005, the hockey season was busy and full of event. In between, Canadas juniors dominated in winning gold for the first time in seven years, while elsewhere a group of friends in Edmonton played hockey for 240 hours straight to set a world record. In February 2005, the World Pond Hockey Championships was competed for by some 96 teams in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick. The Lost Season is in part about the dismal performance by the NHL in 2004-05, but it is more about the perpetuation of the stick and puck game in spite of a season without Lord Stanley.

Lost Season

Lewis Portnoy

Hockey Hall of Fame

This book is the first to chronicle the opening of an era, and Lewis Portnoy's photos complement the descriptive text by Anderw Podnieks.There are essays and anecdotes about the development of the larger league and the great times.

Photographs from the Portnoy Collection at the Hockey Hall of Fame

Shooting Stars

Golf's Greatest Collapses recounts the agony-and sometimes humour-of the worst moments of a golfer's career, the moment when he can't do anything right. Golfers collapses are borne of the weight of the moment, the gaze of thousands of fans, the click of photographers' cameras, the underlying awareness that millions of people around the world are watching. Some golfers never recover from a collapse; others use it to learn, and when the situation recurs, they are wiser and better able to handle the pressure of the moment. Collapses can be good in the long run, or they can be forever devastating.

Golf’s Greatest Collapses

The Red Wings Book is THE most comprehensive, authoritative factbook about the Detroit Red Wings ever published. It's an encyclopedia, almanac, guide, and photo album all in one. Including a game-by-game and period-by-period breakdown of every goal Gordie Howe scored in a Detroit uniform, this book is also highlighted by dozens of rare photographs from a myriad of little-known and hard-to-find sources so we can see the Red Wings and their history in a fresh light. The Complete Red Wings Fact & Guide Book is user-friendly and a terrific reference guide--it's a "facts and stats" book that will appeal to the hockey fan, the historian, and the Red Wing nut.

The Most Complete Detroit Red Wings Fact Book Ever Published

The Red Wings Book, 1997

Where Countries Come to Play chronicles each Olympic tournament, from the 1920 Antwerp games to Vancouver in 2010. Illustrated with photographs from the IIHF archives, the book features rare pictures of games and players, as well as memorabilia and artifacts. Each event is retold through a detailed narrative that will offer fans a complete history of Olympic hockey, including amazing stories from both on and off the ice, organizational challenges, bitter battles, player's tales, and spectacular hockey action. The book also contains a prelude to 2014 Sochi and a detailed appendix of Olympic hockey stats. As well, Where Countries Come to Play celebrates the IIHF's Triple Gold Club, whose members have each won an Olympic Gold Medal, a Stanley Cup, and a World Championship. For the first time in book form, the elite club's twenty-five members are profiled and the story of their accomplishments told. The book will be publsihed in advance of the Sochi Winter Games and is the must-have hockey book for all fans of the game and for anyone that has ever cheered for their nation as they skated out onto the ice.

Celebrating the World of Olympic Hockey and the Triple Gold Club

Where Countries Come to Play

Chronicles the history of the sport from its beginning in the 1800s, when it was played by English soldiers on the ice-bound lakes of Nova Scotia, through the Depression, into the age-of-rage in the 1960s, to contemporary times, when the Stanley Cup becam

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