In hockey, goalies have always been a contradiction - solitary men in a team game, the last line of defence and the stalwarts expected to save the day after any and every miscue and collapse from his teammates. It's no wonder that anyone who played the position has had his sanity questioned; yet some of the biggest innovations in the game have come from its puckstoppers. In The Goaltenders' Union, Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen talk to more than 60 keepers of yesterday and today, finding common threads to their stories, and in dozens of interviews about them with other coaches and players. From Gilles Gratoony the Loony Gratton, who refused to play because the moon was out of alignment with Jupiter, to Jonathan Quick, the athletically gifted master keeper of today's game, the book is an entertaining and enlightening peek behind the mask.--Publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310)
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2015.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 796.962092/2
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781770905856 9781770411494
- LCCN
- GV848.5.A1
- LCCN Item number
- O44 2014eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00236153 (OCoLC)930877958 (CaOOCEL)467887
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 3
- Table of Contents 5
- Introduction 8
- Chapter 1: The Early Days 30
- Chapter 2: The Original Six Era 52
- Chapter 3: Under Even More Pressure - Goalies Who Coach 83
- Chapter 4: Expansion and the WHA 110
- Chapter 5: From the Net to the Broadcast Booth 168
- Chapter 6: The '80s and '90s 185
- Chapter 7: Fathers and Sons 251
- Chapter 8: Recent Goalies 256
- Conclusion 301
- Photo Section 316
- Select Bibliography 324
- Acknowledgements 326
- About the Authors 328
