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NHL : 100 Years of on-Ice Action and Boardroom Battles by D'Arcy Jenish (2016, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoubleday Canada
ISBN-100385671482
ISBN-139780385671484
eBay Product ID (ePID)221628505
Product Key Features
Book TitleNhl : 100 Years of On-Ice Action and Boardroom Battles
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicHockey, Sociology of Sports, General, History
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation
AuthorD'arcy Jenish
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.1 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width5.9 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Hockey is a game oft-told tale--yet there is much still in the vaults. D'Arcy Jenish has ransacked the archives to pull together a unique chronicle of people, places and events that shaped the NHL. Augmented with dozens of fresh interviews and reflections, this is a book that challenges conventions about what we think we know while revealing a great deal heretofore unknown. It deserves a place in every serious hockey fan's library." --Rosie DiManno, author of Coach: The Pat Burns Story
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal796.962/64
SynopsisThis is the story of two perpetual struggles - the one on the ice and the one going on behind the scenes to keep the whole enterprise afloat. D'Arcy Jenish was granted unprecedented access to previously unpublished league files, and conducted dozens of hours of interviews with league executives, including commissioner Gary Bettman and former president John Ziegler, as well as well as owners, coaches, general managers and player representatives. He now reveals for the first time the true story behind some of the most significant events of the contemporary era., In-depth research meets great storytelling in the history of an organization that has been a talking point and newsmaker for 100 years. The National Hockey League--born in a Montreal hotel room on November 26, 1917--has much to celebrate as it approaches its centenary. Millions of fans from Montreal to Miami and Edmonton to Anaheim attend NHL games each year, millions more watch on TV and the league pays its best players multi-million annual salaries. Over the course of its first century, the NHL's fortunes have ebbed and flowed. It has experienced setbacks and triumphs and innumerable crises. The league has awarded many franchises only to see some of them falter, fail and fold. The board of governors--which has included rich eccentrics and at least one future convict--has sometimes been fractured by men who loathed each other. How on earth has the NHL survived? The answer lies in the remarkable fact that it has had only five presidents and one commissioner. Two of these chiefs were stop-gaps. For the balance of league's ninety-plus years, four men have shaped and guided its fortunes and controlled the tough, hard-nosed, sometimes unruly owners who constituted the board of governors. This is the story of two perpetual struggles--the one on the ice and the one going on behind the scenes to keep the whole enterprise afloat. D'Arcy Jenish was granted unprecedented access to previously unpublished league files, including revelatory minutes of board meetings, and conducted dozens of hours of interviews with league executives, including commissioner Gary Bettman and former president John Ziegler, as well as well as owners, coaches, general managers and player representatives. He now reveals for the first time the true story behind some of the most significant events of the contemporary era. This is a definitive, revelatory chonicle that no serious hockey fan will want to be without.
LC Classification NumberGV846.5
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