A Season on the Rink
Author: John S. Kelley
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780964552289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA journal for one season in the life of a hockey family.
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The Ice Chips and the Magical Rink
Author: Roy MacGregor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1443452300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you could travel through time, who would you want to meet? Lucas Finnigan eats, sleeps and breathes hockey. With his friends Edge, Swift and Crunch, Lucas plays on his hometown’s rink, dreaming of the day when he knows he’ll make the NHL. But lately money has been tight at home, and, after a major growth spurt, Lucas is forced to wear hand-me-down gear that doesn’t quite fit right. Now he’s not sure he’ll ever make it to the Hall of Fame like his hockey heroes. And that’s not the only problem. With the community arena’s chiller on the fritz, and replacement parts too tough to come by, it looks like Lucas and his friends may be doomed to a season on a plastic rink—or worse, no hockey at all! But with a magical discovery, and some help from one of hockey's greatest players (who was a kid once, too!), their final skate might turn into their first great adventure . . .
The Hockey Tour
Author: Danielle Benson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-11-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781519218032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKimberly Abrahams and Danielle Benson are ice hockey players, coaches, and fans who set out to travel the United States and Canada in order to attend one home game in every National Hockey League arena in a single season. Their tour becomes a trip of a lifetime as they evaluate the rinks, explore each home team's fan culture and rituals, watch over 30 hockey games, and meet some of the players and staff behind professional hockey. As news of their tour spreads, some teams compete to provide the best experience through behind the scenes access to areas typically restricted to players and media. This memoir, The Hockey Tour, chronicles their incredible four month journey, offers comprehensive information on each of the NHL rinks, cities and significant hockey points of interest while inspiring its readers to live their dreams today and to start planning their own epic journeys.
Ice Rink Rookie
Author: Jake Maddox
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2018-08
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 1496558545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPilar Ramirez loves ice-skating, and she's never let the fact she was born without part of her right foot hold her back. So she's decided to join the hockey team. But being a rookie isn't easy, and what's worse, a fellow player accuses Pilar's newbie mistakes of hurting the team. Can Pilar up her game and prove to her teammate-and herself-that she belongs on the ice? Each book in Jake Maddox Girl Sports Stories features easy-to-read text, fast-paced action, plus back matter support materials to make it a winning read.
Save the Season
Author: Lisa Bolt Simons
Publisher: Choose to Win
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781940647227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reader is the main character in this interactive hockey adventure for ages 9 to 13; they make choices that affect the story and collect points to upgrade their hockey skills in order to win the big game at story's end.
The Skating Rink
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2011-02-28
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0811220591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA phenomenally unusual three-way murder mystery. With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano’s The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolano, who in his last interview, according to The Observer, “declared, in all apparent seriousness, that what he would most like to have been was a homicide detective.” Set in the seaside town of Z, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink is told in short, suspenseful chapters by three male narrators, and revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Martí. A ruined mansion, knife-wielding women, political corruption, sex, and jealousy all appear in this atmospheric chronicle of a single summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, businessmen, immigrants, bureaucrats, social workers, and drifters.
Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating
Author: Christine Brennan
Publisher: Japanime Co. Ltd.
Published: 2022-02-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 4910659102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFigure skating is the most beautiful and mysterious of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is visible for the world to see. In Inside Edge, Christine Brennan chronicles—for the first time—a season on the skating circuit, intimately portraying the lives, on and off the ice, of the sport's current and upcoming stars. Woven into the narrative are stories of figure skating luminaries—including Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Rudy Galindo, and Tara Lipinski. Revealing the backstage conflicts high-profile figure skaters face, and the ambition that drives them, Brennan also tells the stories of their families, of improbable rises to the top, and of wasted talents. If skaters are perfect, they can become international heroes. But if they fall, if they miss a three-revolution jump on a quarter-inch blade of steel, the despair is theirs alone. This is their life on the edge, where decades of training culminate in little more than four crucial minutes on the ice. There is no other sport like it. There is no other story like theirs.
Midnight Hockey
Author: Bill Gaston
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2010-05-28
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0385672535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Giller-nominated author Bill Gaston, proof not only that hockey players can read, but that some of them can even write. Midnight Hockey tells the story of Gaston’s final season, as he contemplates hanging up his skates, and looks back on the sport that has meant so much to him. Sometimes lewd and hilarious, sometimes (though not as often) reflective, Midnight Hockey is a portrait of Canada’s fastest-growing athletic phenomenon: beer-league and oldtimers’ hockey. Gaston spills the beans about the rules of the game (written and unwritten), weird beer, team names, and road-trip sex, illustrated with stories of Gaston’s life in the game, from the outdoor rinks of Winnipeg, through junior hockey, varsity, the professional leagues of Europe, to the late-night games and road-trip shenanigans of beer-league. For all those thousands of guys who drive to the rink late on a snowy night, who know the euphoria of a beer after the game, who think of how good they used to be, who grow nostalgic over a whiff from an unwashed hockey bag – and for anyone who has had to live with such a person – Midnight Hockey is laugh-out-loud funny, true-to-life, and ultimately thoughtful.
Lords of the Rinks
Author: John Chi-Kit Wong
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0802085202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Having done extensive research in the NHL archives - reviewing league meeting minutes, letters, memos, telegrams, gate receipt reports, and other documents - John Chi-Kit Wong traces the commercial roots of hockey and argues that, in its organized form, the sport was rarely if ever without a commercial side despite labels such as amateur and professional. Lords of the Rinks is the only truly comprehensive and scholarly history of the league and the business of hockey."--BOOK JACKET.
Hockey Night in Canada
Author: Michael McKinley
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0143186728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHockey Night in Canada has reached a great age (and for television, practically an immortal one) because it made itself into something that Canada couldn't live without. It is this surge of emotion that connected us all each week, and which connects us through the years to now. Hockey Night in Canada didn't just aim a camera at a game and observe what happened-it actively gave the country a prism through which it could see itself and its evolving diversity. We look where the eye of Hockey Night in Canada looks, and it looks at us. We remember what it remembers. We feel what it feels. That is the dynamic that has made the show much more than a long-lived TV success; it is a cultural juggernaut. Ask fans where they saw their first hockey game, and chances are it was on Hockey Night in Canada. Ask the players-male or female-what first got them into the rink, and the answer will be the same: they wanted to be like the players on Hockey Night in Canada.
