Hockey's Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Wicked Slapshots, Bruising Goons and Ice OdditiesThe history of hockey is filled with the bizarre, the unexpected, and the hard to believe. Hockey's Most Wanted™ chronicles 700 of the most outrageous players, coaches, and owners in hockey history. In humorous detail, Floyd Conner describes hockey’s top-ten strange plays, inept players, bizarre nicknames, craziest fans, colorful characters, unlikely heroes, odious owners, worst coaches, beleaguered officials, most brutal fights, and more. Learn why Dave Reece was nicknamed “the Human Sieve,” and find out which goalie once gave up fifteen goals in a game. Meet the player who was whistled for a record sixty-seven penalty minutes in a single game and another who played in the National Hockey League for five years before scoring his first goal. Imagine scoring the winning goal in the seventh and deciding game of the Stanley Cup—for the opposing team—or how it felt to be the defenseman traded for a net. You can find all this and more in Hockey's Most Wanted™, a book that every hockey fan will enjoy. |
Contents
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The sports most unusual nicknames | 16 |
A hockey menagerie | 19 |
Famed forward lines | 22 |
All in the family | 25 |
The NHLs worst teams | 126 |
Superstars less than super seasons | 129 |
They couldnt score | 133 |
Hockeys worst goaltenders | 136 |
Goalies for a day | 139 |
Onegame NHL careers | 143 |
They rose to the occasion | 146 |
Hockeys ultimate winners | 149 |
More than just a Canadian game | 30 |
American players in the NHL | 33 |
Its not just a mans game | 36 |
Outstanding black players | 39 |
Brains and Brawn | 42 |
They threw their hat tricks into the ring | 46 |
Multisport stars | 49 |
Memorable Olympic hockey moments | 53 |
Milk and magic elixirs | 57 |
See whats on the menu | 61 |
Big and tall hockey players | 65 |
Hockeys little big men | 68 |
Hockey phenoms | 71 |
Hockey senior citizens | 74 |
They were what they wore | 78 |
Masks pucks and sticks | 82 |
Unusual hockey venues | 85 |
Hockeys best centers | 89 |
Hockeys best right wingers | 93 |
Hockeys best left wingers | 96 |
Hockeys best defensemen | 99 |
Hockeys best goaltenders | 102 |
The games hardest shooters | 106 |
Faster than a speeding Bucyk | 110 |
Poke hip and body checks | 113 |
The greatest seasons in hockey history | 116 |
The best singlegame performances | 120 |
Hockeys biggest blowouts | 123 |
Great players who never raised the Cup | 152 |
Strange Stanley Cup facts | 155 |
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction | 158 |
Oneofakind hockey feats | 162 |
Hockey can be a humbling game | 166 |
Stars selected late in the draft | 170 |
Prospects gone bad | 174 |
They didnt make it in the NHL | 177 |
The NHLs least successful coaches | 180 |
The Fog and the Master of the Mouth | 183 |
Big Bill and Charlie O | 188 |
The games most colorful characters | 194 |
Hockey players werent always millionaires | 199 |
Costly collectibles | 203 |
When fans become fanatics | 206 |
They called them as they saw them | 211 |
Cheating and deception in hockey | 215 |
Enforcers intimidators and tough guys | 218 |
The nice men on the ice | 223 |
A hockey game broke out | 227 |
Hockeys worst suspensions | 231 |
Hockey is a dangerous game | 234 |
Notable hockey lasts | 238 |
Bibliography | 241 |
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About the Author | 255 |
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Hockey's Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Wicked Slapshots, Bruising Goons ... Floyd Conner No preview available - 2002 |
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