Shoot to Thrill: The History of Hockey?s Shootout

by Mark Rosenman, Howie Karpin, Jiggs McDonald (Foreword by)

Overview

In 2005, the National Hockey League adopted the shootout to settle ties in regular season games. The shootout is used if the game remains tied after five minutes of overtime.

Ten years later, the shootout is one of the most significant and controversial rule changes in all of sports. Some maintain that the shootout erases a sixty-five-minute emotional rollercoaster between two teams—and that it’s wrong for games to be decided based on a one-on-one battle between a shooter and a goalie. Others argue that shootouts provide edge-of-your seat excitement as two supremely skilled players go head-to-head for all the marbles.

Shoot to Thrill blends history, stats, and personal perspectives from players, coaches, officials, and broadcasters. Mark Rosenman and Howie Karpin explore how players and coaches prepare for shootouts, what they think of them, and how shootouts have helped shape hockey history over the past decade—including the shootout in the last game of the 2010 season that sent the Philadelphia Flyers into the playoffs and on to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Some rule changes are instituted without anyone’s noticing. Others shake the game to its very foundations. Like the designated-hitter rule in baseball, hockey’s shootout has left no fan impartial to it. This is the book for them.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613217979
Publisher:	Sports Publishing LLC
Publication date:	03/31/2015
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Mark Rosenman has been covering sports since 1979, as an on-air talk show host on Cablevision, WGLI, and WGBB. He is currently the host and producer of WLIE 540 a.m. SportsTalkNY. He is credentialed with the NHL and covers both the Islanders and Rangers and is credentialed with MLB and covers the New York Mets.
Howie Karpin has been a sports reporter for more than thirty years and has covered everything from the World Series to the Stanley Cup Finals. He is an accredited official scorer for Major League Baseball in New York and is a contributor to Mad Dog Radio, MLB Radio, and NFL Radio.
Mark Rosenman has been covering sports in New York for almost forty years. He is currently the host and producer of Sports-Talk-NY on WLIE 540 AM. He is credentialed with the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball and covers the New York Rangers and New York Mets. With Howie Karpin, he is the co-author of Shoot to Thrill and Down on the Korner.
Howie Karpin has been a sports journalist for nearly forty years. He is an accredited official scorer in New York for Major League Baseball, is an on-air update anchor for Sirius XM Sports, and has authored or coauthored eight books, including, with Mark Rosenman, Down on the Korner.

Table of Contents

Foreword "Jiggs" McDonald ix

Preface xi

Chapter 1 The History of the Penalty Shot 1

Chapter 2 Fit to Be Tied 17

Chapter 3 NHL Showdown 65

Chapter 4 Shots Heard 'Round the World 77

Chapter 5 Ten Years After 95

Chapter 6 The First Shootout 101

Chapter 7 The Longest Shootout 105

Chapter 8 Shooting Stars 109

Chapter 9 Inside the Mask 127

Chapter 10 Shoot-Outside 149

Chapter 11 Shootout to Shoot-In 155

Chapter 12 Devil of a Time 161

Chapter 13 Who Would You Choose? 169

Chapter 14 The Fan's Corner 193

Appendix: Shootout Records 209

Contributors 219

Acknowledgments 225

Editorial Reviews

“Impressive doesn't even scratch the surface. . . . New York Rangers center Dominic Moore, former New York Islanders Ken Morrow, Hall of Fame broadcaster "Jiggs" McDonald (who also wrote the foreword), and New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey (yes, Matt Harvey) lead the all-star list of contributors.” —UticaOD.com

“Impressive doesn't even scratch the surface. . . . New York Rangers center Dominic Moore, former New York Islanders Ken Morrow, Hall of Fame broadcaster "Jiggs" McDonald (who also wrote the foreword), and New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey (yes, Matt Harvey) lead the all-star list of contributors.” —UticaOD.com

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