Download or read book The Puck Starts Here written by Garth Vaughan and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to start a fight? Just ask where hockey was invented. In The Puck Starts Here, Garth Vaughan traces the origin of Canada's great winter game, not to Montreal (where "the first hockey game" was played in 1875), not to Kingston (where Queen's University and Royal Military College played "the first hockey game" in 1886), but to Windsor, Nova Scotia, around 1800. Vaughan is not speculating. According to Thomas Chandler Haliburton, as early as 1800, the local version of "He shoots! He scores!" echoed over Windsor's frozen ponds as the boys of King's College School furiously hit a slice from a stick of stove wood towards the opponents' goal with their "hurley" sticks. Soon the youth of Halifax and Dartmouth and the soldiers in the garrisons took up the new sport. By century's end, hockey had spread across Canada, and Lord Stanley had donated his famous cup. The Puck Starts Here begins with hockey's origin, but Vaughan goes on to show how early equipment developed into the recognizably modern gear of the 1930s. He also explains that, although the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia made the best hornbeam hockey sticks, they were not welcome on town teams; neither were Blacks or women. So they started their own hockey leagues, which were going strong by 1900. This easy-to-read book is illustrated with over 200 pictures -- engravings and paintings from the early 1800s, archival and press photos, snapshots, and advertisements. The Puck Starts Here makes thrilling reading for every hockey enthusiast. A retired surgeon and a native of Windsor, Garth Vaughan has lived and breathed hockey since boyhood. He found more than enough material in libraries in Nova Scotia, at Harvard, at Queen's Universityand Royal Military College, and in the National Archives of Canada to prove that his hometown is truly the source of Canada's winter obsession.

Download or read book My Story Starts Here written by Deborah Ellis and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories. Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen (“Court gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you’re just bad forever”) but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with petty theft and assault, finally found a counselor who treated her like a person for the first time. Many readers will recognize themselves, or someone they know, somewhere in these stories. Being lucky or unlucky after making a mistake. The encounter with a mean cop or a good one. Couch-surfing, or being shunted from one foster home to another. The kids in this book represent a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Every story is different, but there are common threads — loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination. The book also includes the points of view of family members as well as “voices of experience” — adults looking back at their own experiences as young offenders. Most of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can’t we do better? Have we forgotten that we were once teens ourselves, feeling powerless to change our lives, confused about who we were and what we wanted, and quick to make a move without a thought for the consequences? Key Text Features illustrations photographs further reading glossary resources Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2 Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6 Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.8 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.

Download or read book The Puck Drops Here Hockey Super Six written by Kevin Sylvester and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special group of kids must save the world with — what else? — HOCKEY! There are people out there, nasty mean greedy people, who want to rule the Earth. People such as evil scientist (and former mediocre goalie) Clarence Crosscheck. Only one thing is stopping them . . . hockey. This hilarious new high-action series from Kevin Sylvester pits six ordinary kids with super hockey skills against the forces of evil — specifically, the nefarious wannabe genius, Clarence Crosscheck. In The Puck Drops Here, Jenny, Benny, Mo, Starlight, DJ and Karl need to outmaneuver Crosscheck and his army of mammoth mutant ice squids before Crosscheck turns his giant freeze ray on the world. The entire planet is at risk! Get ready for high-stakes ice battles, non-stop hijinks and never-before-seen hockey action (it’s kids vs squids)! With fast-paced text and illustrations throughout, this series will grip sports fans and funny story lovers alike. Will the kids win the day? You’ll have to read the books to find out . . .

Download or read book Take Your Eye Off the Puck written by Greg Wyshynski and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockey More and more fans are watching the NHL each week, but many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. How does an offense create shooting lanes for its best sniper? When a center breaks through and splits between two defensemen, which defender is to blame? Why does a goalie look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the minor leagues the next? This guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockey takes you inside a coach's mind as he builds a roster or constructs a game plan, to the chaos of the goalie's crease, and deep into the perpetual chess match between offense and defense. Discussing topics such as what to look for when a team goes on the power play and why playing center might be the most grueling job in sports, Take Your Eye Off the Puck shows fans how to get the most out of watching their favorite sport.

Download or read book Canada s Game written by Andrew Carl Holman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. Skinazi (University of Alberta), and Julie Stevens (Brock University).

Download or read book The Puck Stops Here written by Jim O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1997-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Puckstruck written by Stephen Smith and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Puck Stops Here written by and published by Institute of Public Administration of Canada. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hockey Plays and Strategies 2E written by Johnston, Mike and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hockey Plays and Strategies features a variety of plays, systems, and strategies for game play in the offensive, neutral, and defensive zones. Special situations such as the power play, penalty kill, and face-offs are also featured.

Download or read book Puck It written by Eve Newton and published by Catin Publishing. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When things take a turn for the worst at the Nessie Warriors, I'm in for a surprise that I'm not sure I'm ready for. Ah, puck it. The Captain of the rival team, who ends up more in my bed than out of it, is due into the Highlanders on a transfer deal that rocks the team, and I’m inadvertently thrust into the centre of this heated situation as an owner. It’s no good telling them this was my retired dad’s deal because no one will listen, but when I figure out the method to his madness, I’m determined to see this transfer through. Can I make it work with the players I’ve come to love? Things are going to get tougher before they get better, but while finding love at the rink wasn’t in my plans, fate has other ideas. This is a spicy, light-hearted whychoose romance book 2 of 2 where the woman ends up with more than one love interest and ends in an HEA. This is an entirely fictional world, league and team.

Download or read book Hockey written by Stephen Hardy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport. Here is the story of on-ice stars and organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey's "birthing" in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport's emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace 'em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia. Sweeping in scope and vivid with detail, Hockey: A Global History is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world--and vice versa.

Download or read book The puck stops here written by Garth Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coaching Beginner Hockey Skills and Drills In A Day For Dummies written by Don MacAdam and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the skills and drills you need as a first-time hockey coach—in a day! For first-time coaches, Coaching Beginner Hockey Drills and Skills In a Day For Dummies presents the basic practice drills that will sharpen player skills and make coaching fun and effective. Includes simple hockey drills that make practice fun Features strategies for dealing with challenging parents, preventing injury, and more Written by a former professional hockey player and coach and a professional exercise physiologist This e-book also links to an online component at dummies.com that extends the topic into step-by-step tutorials and other "beyond the book" content.

Download or read book Coast to Coast written by John Chi-Kit Wong and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-07-25 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover, Canadian culture is not static, and hockey's place in it has evolved and changed. In Coast to Coast, a wide range of contributors examine the historical development of hockey across Canada, in both rural and urban settings, to ask how ideas about hockey have changed. Conceptually broad, the essays explore identity formation by investigating what hockey meant to Canadians from the nineteenth century to the Second World War, as well as the role of government, entrepreneurs, and voluntary associations in supporting and promoting the game. Coast to Coast is an intriguing look at the development of a national sport, a must-read for hockey fans and historians alike.

Download or read book Men at Play written by Michael A. Robidoux and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a year spent documenting the working life and daily routines of players for an American Hockey League team, Michael Robidoux found that most peoples' perceptions of hockey players' lives as romantic and glamorized are unrealistic. The majority of professional hockey players work in a closed and discriminatory environment in the lower tiers of hockey on semi-professional teams.

Download or read book Planet Hockey First Star of the Game written by Kevin Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the Hockey Super Six thwart their enemy's plans for world domination in book two of this action-packed series? In the second book pitting six ordinary kids with super hockey skills against the forces of evil, Jenny, Benny, Mo, Starlight, DJ and Karl desperately need to stay out of Crosscheck's grasp! Their last run-in revealed to evil scientist (and former mediocre goalie) Clarence Crosscheck the scope of some of their secret powers -- powers he can use in his never-ending quest for world domination. Hard at work on a robot army to do his bidding, Crosscheck underestimates how strong the Super Six can be when they work together as a team. Get ready for high-stakes ice battles, non-stop hijinks and never-before-seen hockey action (it's kids vs robots, and some giant lizards too)!