This commemorative book on the 2021 Stanley Cup champions provides a visual look at the winning team's road to championship glory. Through unique words and images, this celebratory book takes readers from the season's first games and on through the unpredictable NHL season and exciting playoff run. Including full color photographs and profiles of star players and the head coach, this keepsake book is an essential part of any fan's collection.

This commemorative book on the 2021 Stanley Cup champions provides a visual look at the winning team's road to championship glory. Through unique words and images, this celebratory book takes readers from the season's first games and on through the unpredictable NHL season and exciting playoff run. Including full color photographs and profiles of star players and the head coach, this keepsake book is an essential part of any fan's collection.

This commemorative book on the 2021 Stanley Cup champions provides a visual look at the winning team's road to championship glory. Through unique words and images, this celebratory book takes readers from the season's first games and on through the unpredictable NHL season and exciting playoff run. Including full color photographs and profiles of star players and the head coach, this keepsake book is an essential part of any fan's collection.

Discusses the hockey team originally known as the Quebec Nordiques, which became the Colorado Avalanche in 1995, noting the contributions of such players as Joe Sakic, Patrick Roy, and Adam Foote.

Like many a Canadian kid, Stephen Smith was up on skates first thing as a boy, out in the weather chasing a puck and the promise of an NHL career. Back indoors after that didn’t quite work out, he turned to the bookshelf. That’s where, without entirely meaning to, he ended up reading all the hockey books. There was Crunch and Boom Boom, Slashing! and High Stick; there was Max Bentley: Hockey’s Dipsy-Doodle Dandy, Blue Line Murder, and Nagano, a Czech hockey opera. There was Blood on the Ice, Cracked Ice, Fire On Ice, Power On Ice, Cowboy On Ice, and Steel On Ice. In Puckstruck, Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey’s literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey’s narratives in search of hockey’s heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.

Presents year-by-year summaries of the Stanley Cup finals and includes information on memorable moments, players, and goals.

The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history—the Big East “This book, full of long-standing rivalries, unmatched moments in the lives of coaches and players, and juicy insider gossip, is, like the game of basketball, a ton of fun.”—Philadelphia magazine The names need no introduction: Thompson and Patrick, Boeheim and the Pearl, and of course Gavitt. And the moments are part of college basketball lore: the Sweater Game, Villanova Beats Georgetown, and Six Overtimes. But this is the story of the Big East Conference that you haven’t heard before—of how the Northeast, once an afterthought, became the epicenter of college basketball. Before the league’s founding, East Coast basketball had crowned just three national champions in forty years, and none since 1954. But in the Big East’s first ten years, five of its teams played for a national championship. The league didn’t merely inherit good teams; it created them. But how did this unlikely group of schools come to dominate college basketball so quickly and completely? Including interviews with more than sixty of the key figures in the conference’s history, The Big East charts the league’s daring beginnings and its incredible rise. It transports fans inside packed arenas to epic wars fought between transcendent players, and behind locker-room doors where combustible coaches battled even more fiercely for a leg up. Started on a handshake and a prayer, the Big East carved an improbable arc in sports history, an ensemble of Catholic schools banding together to not only improve their own stations but rewrite the geographic boundaries of basketball. As former UConn coach Jim Calhoun eloquently put it, “It was Camelot. Camelot with bad language.”