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Sports & Recreation Hockey

Xtreme Hockey

The Puck Stops Here

by (author) Stephen Cole

Publisher
Madison Press Books
Initial publish date
Sep 2011
Category
Hockey
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781897330869
    Publish Date
    Sep 2011
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

From the hardest bodycheck to the most powerful slapshot, all the things that kids really want to know about the sport they love. Here are hockey's greatest hits n literally n the most gruesome injuries, punishing training schedules, and insider info about the scariest goons, balanced with amazing stories of athleticism, dedication and even heroics, on and off the rink. Pictures and text are combined in Xtreme Hockey to give an incredible-but-true view of the playmakers, rule-breakers, and stick-shakers that make hockey the most exciting game on ice.

About the author

Stephen Cole is a hockey fan and the author of Double Overtime, Xtreme Hockey, The Canadian Hockey Atlas, The Last Hurrah: A Celebration of Hockey’s Greatest Season ’66–’67, and the hockey humor anthology Slapshots. He writes regularly for The Globe and Mail and the CBC. Stephen Cole lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and two sons.

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