Hockey's Most Wanted?: The Top 10 Book of Wicked Slapshots, Bruising Goons and Ice Oddities

by Floyd Conner

Overview

The 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597973366
Publisher:	Potomac Books Inc.
Publication date:	10/31/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Floyd Conner is the author of numerous popular sports books, including Baseball's Most Wanted™, Football's Most Wanted™, and Golf!, which sold more than 150,000 copies. He has been interviewed many times for radio, newspaper, and television and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Table of Contents

	List of Photographs	xi
	Introduction	xiii
	The First Period: Notable hockey firsts	1
	Rules of the Game: The evolution of hockey rules	5
	Rocket and the Golden Jet: Hockey's best nicknames	10
	Notorious Nicknames: Punch, Pinocchio, and Puck Goesinski	13
	Dipsy Doodle Dandies: The sport's most unusual nicknames	16
	They're Animals: A hockey menagerie	19
	Production Lines: Famed forward lines	22
	Family Affairs: All in the family	25
	The International Hockey League: More than just a Canadian game	30
	Born in the U.S.A.: American players in the NHL	33
	Women in Hockey: It's not just a man's game	36
	Black Hockey Stars: Outstanding black players	39
	The Smart Set: Brains and Brawn	42
	Playing Politics: They threw their hat tricks into the ring	46
	Sports of All Sorts: Multisport stars	49
	Going for the Gold: Memorable Olympic hockey moments	53
	Drinking It All In: Milk and magic elixirs	57
	Food for Thought: See what's on the menu	61
	Bigger Is Better: Big and tall hockey players	65
	Mighty Atoms: Hockey's little big men	68
	Teenage Terrors: Hockey phenoms	71
	Life Begins at 40: Hockey senior citizens	74
	Clothes Encounters: They were what they wore	78
	Tools of the Trade: Masks, pucks, and sticks	82
	Dinky Rinks: Unusual hockey venues	85
	Centers of Attention: Hockey's best centers	89
	The Right Stuff: Hockey's best right wingers	93
	The Left Stuff: Hockey's best left wingers	96
	For the Defense: Hockey's best defensemen	99
	The Puck Stops Here: Hockey's best goaltenders	102
	Sizzling Slap Shots: The game's hardest shooters	106
	Roadrunners: Faster than a speeding Bucyk	110
	Check, Please: Poke, hip, and body checks	113
	The Best Years of Their Lives: The greatest seasons in hockey history	116
	Great Games: The best single-game performances	120
	Lopsided Losses: Hockey's biggest blowouts	123
	Terrible Teams: The NHL's worst teams	126
	Seasons They'd Rather Forget: Superstars' less than super seasons	129
	The Offense Rests: They couldn't score	133
	Net Losses: Hockey's worst goaltenders	136
	Who's Minding the Net?: Goalies for a day	139
	One-Game Wonders: One-game NHL careers	143
	Unlikely Heroes: They rose to the occasion	146
	Their Cups Runneth Over: Hockey's ultimate winners	149
	They Never Won the Stanley Cup: Great players who never raised the Cup	152
	Stanley Cup Curiosities: Strange Stanley Cup facts	155
	Hockey Believe-It-or-Nots: Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction	158
	The One and Only: One-of-a-kind hockey feats	162
	Hockey's Most Embarrassing Moments: Hockey can be a humbling game	166
	Draft Bargains: Stars selected late in the draft	170
	Draft Busts: Prospects gone bad	174
	Minor League Wonders: They didn't make it in the NHL	177
	They Couldn't Win: The NHL's least successful coaches	180
	Colorful Coaches: The Fog and the Master of the Mouth	183
	Outrageous Owners: Big Bill and Charlie O	188
	Ice Flakes: The game's most colorful characters	194
	Money Matters: Hockey players weren't always millionaires	199
	Memorable Memorabilia: Costly collectibles	203
	Hockey Fanatics: When fans become fanatics	206
	Official Business: They called them as they saw them	211
	The Extra Edge: Cheating and deception in hockey	215
	Goons: Enforcers, intimidators, and tough guys	218
	Good Sports: The nice men on the ice	223
	Famous Fights: A hockey game broke out	227
	Severe Suspensions: Hockey's worst suspensions	231
	Incredible Injuries: Hockey is a dangerous game	234
	The Final Horn: Notable hockey lasts	238
	Bibliography	241
	Index	243
	About the Author	255