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- Title
- The goaltenders' union : hockey's greatest puckstoppers, acrobats, and flakes / Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen.
- Author
- Oliver, Greg,
- Publication
- Troronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2014]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GV848.5.A1 O44 2014 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Kamchen, Richard, 1974-
- Description
- 312 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In hockey, goalies have always been a contradiction--solitary men in a team game, the last line of defence and the stalwarts expected to save the day after any and every miscue and collapse from his teammates. It's no wonder that anyone who played the position has had his sanity questioned; yet some of the biggest innovations in the game have come from its puckstoppers. In The Goaltenders' Union, Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen talk to more than 60 keepers of yesterday and today, finding common threads to their stories, and in dozens of interviews about them with other coaches and players. From Gilles "Gratoony the Loony" Gratton, who refused to play because the moon was out of alignment with Jupiter, to Jonathan Quick, the athletically gifted master keeper of today's game, the book is an entertaining and enlightening peek behind the mask.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310).
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- The early days -- The Original Six era -- Under even more pressure : goalies who coach -- Expansion and the WHA -- From the net to the broadcast booth -- The '80s and '90s -- Fathers and sons -- Recent goalies.
- ISBN
- 9781770411494 (pbk.)
- 1770411496 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- ocn869266674
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library