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A Whole New Game

By (author) Neil Longley
Categories: Ice hockey

Hockey used to be Canada’s game. What happened? A renowned sports expert details the sellout of a sport Canada once dominated to big-money U.S. corporatization and enumerates the effects, including ...

Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap

Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary ...

Canada's Holy Grail

By (author) Jordan B. Goldstein
Categories: Ice hockey

In 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup – later known as the Stanley Cup – to crown the first Canadian hockey champions.

Canada’s Holy Grail documents Lord ...

Power Play

Power Play tells a dramatic story about clashing priorities where sports, money, and municipal power meet. When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton, no amount of buzz could drown out the ...

Un sport légendaire

By (author) Stephen Harper
Categories: Ice hockey

«Qui étaient ces prétendants à la coupe Stanley et qu'est-il advenu d'eux? L'histoire nous dit qu'ils formaient la première incarnation des Maple Leafs de Toronto. Or, les efforts acharnés de leurs ...

Everything About Hockey

By (author) J. Alexander Poulton
Categories: Ice hockey

From Arena to Zamboni, this entertaining A-to-Z guide for hockey lovers covers everything there is to know about Canada’s game--its origins, rules, equipment, terminology, culture, evolution and obscure ...

Canadian Hockey Literature

By (author) Jason Blake
Categories: Ice hockey

Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes ...

Living the Hockey Dream

By (author) Brian Kennedy
Categories: Biography: sport

Many of the experiences of every hockey dreamer are the same. Are those experiences any different for someone who makes it to the NHL? Living the Hockey Dream tells stories of people from around the hockey ...

Lords of the Rinks

By (author) John Chi-Kit Wong
Categories: Ice hockey

No sport is as important to Canadians as hockey. Though there may be a great many things that divide the country, the love of hockey is perhaps its single greatest unifier. Before the latest labour unrest ...