PEARSON PRIZE WINNER 2010 TEEN CHOICE. SIX STORIES, EACH INVOLVING AN NHL HOCKEY SWEATER. STORIES THAT CAN BRING A TEAR TO YOUR EYE, AND YET EACH STORY HAS A HAPPY ENDING. 1)OLD GOALIE SKATES: Chris has never known his father. However through the kindness of a school bus driver and a tattered old CANADIENS hockey sweater, Chris finds a way out of his sadness. 2)THE HOCKEY LESSON: A bitter old black man finds redemption by giving a young black boy hockey lessons and his old BOSTON hockey sweater. This helps the boy from going astray and gives the boy a reason to continue his studies. 3)THE RIVER RINK: A father refuses to let his son play goalie. However through a terrible accident the father becomes much closer to his son. 4)THE STREET HOCKEY TOURNAMENT: A young girl wants to play hockey with the boys. This leads to many problems, however through hockey the girl finds her long lost father.5)THE DREAM OF A TORONTO HOCKEY SWEATER.6)The boy gets the wrong hockey sweater(CHICAGO)for Christma

The whole world knows how much hockey is a vital part of Canadian culture. The cold winters, old rinks, and frozen ponds are ubiquitous to millions of Canadians and contextual for countless more across the world. Even for those who didn't play ice hockey, the game still became palpable. In My Road Hockey Obsession, author Curt Solomon tells the story of a group of young friends building their lives, friendships, and adolescence around road hockey. For Solomon, road hockey was much, much more than a pastime. It was the only pastime. When he started playing road hockey, he knew he had found the city of gold, and there was no use looking for or pursuing any other activity. In this unique story built entirely around ball hockey, Solomon shares how he and his friends transformed a simple pastime into the most bonding and durable period of their lives. Road hockey was how they grew up, how they communicated, how they thought, and how they forged life-long memories. My Road Hockey Obsession narrates a joyous story that sparks nostalgia-the days of orange balls, plastic blades, and the hollow sound of wooden sticks on asphalt.

In the 19th century, the sport of ice hockey was first played in the eastern part of Canada, and by the latter part of the century, the new winter game began spreading to other countries like the United States, Great Britain, and Czechoslovakia. As the 20th century unfolded, Sweden, Finland, and the Soviet Union became fully involved with the game. During that same period, a North American league, the National Hockey League (NHL), and two major international competitions such as the World Ice Hockey Championship, and the Winter Olympics' Ice Hockey Tournament were introduced to the hockey world. Today, in the 21st century, people from all corners of the globe participate in the game, and this book illustrates on how the sport was formed and developed in the some of the top ice hockey nations in the world.

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Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Sport - Sport Economics, Sport Management, grade: 2, University of Applied Sciences Kufstein Tirol, language: English, abstract: The national hockey league was formed in 1917 in the United States. “The Original Six”, six teams which survived till 1943 in the league and were from that on the only teams until the late 1960s. From 1967 the teams doubled and from that moment new teams joined the league every year. In the 1990s the new teams positioned Hockey as entertainment, especially family entertainment. The teams added among other things cheerleaders and modern music. Furthermore a new management team was in charge of the NHL, including experienced marketing professionals, who worked before for the NBA and should give the hockey sport a new push.

As a sporting event planner, how do you keep up with the trends of the ticket buying public, sponsorship and merchandising while at the same time attending to the hundreds of management and operational details required to execute the event? A successful sports event requires a planner that can read signals from their market and plan strategically to maintain sponsors and a fill an arena.